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If you were an account holder at a multi-branch bank before the age of telegraphs, could you withdraw all your money at one location, beat the messenger to the next bank, and withdraw the same money there?

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Was there ever any serious consideration of putting a Jewish state in Sinai instead of Palestine after WWII?

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Since humans arrived in Europe one or two thousand years before they arrived in Central America, was it possible that Mesoamerican civilizations were the Mesopotamian civilizations of precolonial America, e.g. Egypt, Assyria, and Babylonia?

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In the Roman Empire, was Christianity considered a major rival to the Roman religion, or just another fringe religion?

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If you were an account holder at a multi-branch bank before the age of telegraphs, could you withdraw all your money at one location, beat the messenger to the next bank, and withdraw the same money there?	176
Was there ever any serious consideration of putting a Jewish state in Sinai instead of Palestine after WWII?	5
Since humans arrived in Europe one or two thousand years before they arrived in Central America, was it possible that Mesoamerican civilizations were the Mesopotamian civilizations of precolonial America, e.g. Egypt, Assyria, and Babylonia?	1
In the Roman Empire, was Christianity considered a major rival to the Roman religion, or just another fringe religion?	1