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The Royal Navy intercepted slave ships after the United Kingdom abolished the slave trade. What happened to the slaves on those seized vessels?
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How prominent was the romanticization of vastness or "expanse," and the worry about holding together a country partially defined by its size, in more orthodox Soviet philosophy and discourse,?
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What was the post-WW2 academic consensus on the origin of the Indo-Europeans before the popularisation of the kurgan hypothesis?
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It is said that in the Middle Ages Jews were ostracized from most professions, so they turned to moneylending, which Christians were not allowed to themselves. To what extent is this true? Is it an oversimplification? How did Jews obtain money to lend in the first place?
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