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Why have the Baha'i been persecuted in Iran more heavily than other religious minorities? Is there any evidence to the claims that the Baha'i are (especially likely to be) spies?
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Washington Naval Conference: "The [decrypted] information the Cipher Bureau provided... was instrumental in getting the Japanese side to agree to a 5:3 ratio instead of the 10:7 ratio the Japanese Navy really wanted." How did the Japanese react upon learning this?
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Prior to the Ten-Day War in 1991, Slovenians spent months developing a media strategy to portray themselves as the David to Yugoslavia's Goliath and ensure Western sympathy for the Slovenian side. How important was this media strategy to the outcome of the war? What forms did Western support take?
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Renaissance Italy: Did the Church really prosecute insects and rodents to deter heresy and keep the tithes coming in?
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"Stoic martyrs"? Several Roman senators who were associated with Stoicism were executed for resistance to imperial excess. Were their political acts motivated by philosophical ideals? Was there persecution of Stoics in 1c. CE Rome?
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