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The Irish Mob. The Polish Mob. The Jewish Mob. The Greek Mob. Etc. Throughout the 20th century there were numerous organized crime groups operating in the United States. How did Italians become the default depiction of "The Mafia" in pop culture compared to these other ethnic groups?
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How did the Romans view the conquest of Parthia by the Sassanians? Were there attempts to make peace with their new neighbor, or were they simply viewed as a continuation of the Persian Empire that they had fought for centuries?
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How did the Vandals, a Germanic tribe from Poland, come to establish a kingdom all the way in North Africa?
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"Stop sending people to kill me! We've already captured five of them... If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send a very fast working one to Moscow and I certainly won't have to send another." Would Tito have actually been capable of assassinating Stalin?
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Ancient Greeks used cups made of amethyst because they thought it would prevent drunkenness. Ancient Egyptians doused women in horse saliva to improve libido. These obviously didn't work, so how did these beliefs (and those like them) develop? Wouldn't just looking at what happens disprove them?
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What were the relations between European kingdoms and the Crusader States? Were they independent nations, or were they more akin to what we would consider to be colonies?
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