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Why did Charles de Gaulle's withdrawal from Algeria trigger such a crisis in France, including attempted assassinations and coups, when the 1962 French referendum had shown that 90+% of people supported the policy?
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How widespread and successful were espionage efforts among China, North Korea, South Korea and Japan? Did moles and spy-rings exist as they did in the USSR and USA?
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How has Communism interpreted the pre-Marxist Maximilien Robespierre? Is it naive to assume that his concepts of defending a revolution, purging it's possible detractors and targeting the formal 'elite' would have appealed to later movements in Russia, China, Cuba etc?
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Napoleon famously considered torture as close to useless for the acquisition of intelligence, was this position informed by personal experience in anyway?
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Is there a resource for extant Papal documents of the Medieval period anyone could suggest? Treaties, bulls, etc. English translations would be great, but Latin or Italian could also work. Thank you!
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Is Halloween (31 Oct) important as the day Martin Luther supposedly made public the Ninety-Five Theses? It is also the day before All Saint's Day (1 Nov) and he nailed them to the All Saint's Church. Is this just coincidence, or allegorically important?
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Was there discontent within the US political establishment at Gerald Ford's rise to VP and then POTUS without partaking in a popular vote for either office? Did this 'unconventional' route undermine his mandate and/or popularity?
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