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SCOTUS Justice James McReynolds was famously antisemitic, even refusing to sign on to opinions written by Jewish Justices like Cardozo. What do we know about McReynolds’ antisemitic beliefs and thoughts, and were his feelings known when he was appointed?
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Did Roman society have a word for what we today associate with being on the autism spectrum? How was it treated?
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What was going on in America that caused the Founding Fathers to create the Second Amendment and sign it into law?
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Was the Holocaust "not about race", as Whoopi Goldberg just insisted? What did the Nazis define as a "race"?
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I heard today that H.P. Lovecraft was very anti-Semitic. How much truth is there to that, and what evidence do we have of it? NSFW
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SCOTUS Justice James McReynolds was famously antisemitic, even refusing to sign on to opinions written by Jewish Justices like Cardozo. What do we know about McReynolds’ antisemitic beliefs and thoughts, and were his feelings known when he was appointed?
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What led to China's apparently decisive military victory in the 1962 Sino-Indian War, and how did the perception of this war affect Indian domestic and foreign policy in the next few years, if at all?
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I read somewhere that HG Wells worked at a dry-goods store, and hated it so much that he wrote a letter to his old schoolmaster saying he no longer wanted to live, and was offered a job as a teacher. Is that true?
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