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Were Catholicism and Christianity synonymous before the Protestant Reformation? Is one term newer than the other?

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How is it that Mamluks were slaves and a powerful political force, even becoming Sultan?

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Was the US automotive industry a big customer of Belgium's atrocities in the Congo in the turn of the 20th century?

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Why was this Vietnamese employee of USAID in South Vietnam offered this deal by the Americans before the fall of Saigon: leave the country with only his unmarried children, or take a payment of 1 million dong and stay in the country?

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Why we're British intelligence agencies so superior than German ones in WW2?

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Today we have a lot of common gripes: traffic, faulty wifi, boring jobs. What mundane, everyday things were people in China in ~1600 complaining to each other about?

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When did facial ejaculation take over as the fashionable way to end a pornographic scene? NSFW

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Where does the trope of named fighting techniques (often seen in Kung-Fu movies and Anime series) come from? What is the earliest example of a fictional character having a specifically-named "special move"?

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American slaves as collateral on loans around 1860.

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Are there any records to indicate how strong a person from your period and area of specialty would be?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Were Catholicism and Christianity synonymous before the Protestant Reformation? Is one term newer than the other?	13
How is it that Mamluks were slaves and a powerful political force, even becoming Sultan?	8
Was the US automotive industry a big customer of Belgium's atrocities in the Congo in the turn of the 20th century?	8
Why was this Vietnamese employee of USAID in South Vietnam offered this deal by the Americans before the fall of Saigon: leave the country with only his unmarried children, or take a payment of 1 million dong and stay in the country?	5
Why we're British intelligence agencies so superior than German ones in WW2?	3
Today we have a lot of common gripes: traffic, faulty wifi, boring jobs. What mundane, everyday things were people in China in ~1600 complaining to each other about?	2
When did facial ejaculation take over as the fashionable way to end a pornographic scene? NSFW	2
Where does the trope of named fighting techniques (often seen in Kung-Fu movies and Anime series) come from? What is the earliest example of a fictional character having a specifically-named "special move"?	1
American slaves as collateral on loans around 1860.	1
Are there any records to indicate how strong a person from your period and area of specialty would be?	1