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How did the Francoist regime view the establishment of the co-operative, worker-owned Mondragon Corporation in the 1950s, given the collectivist worker movement's allegiance with the Second Republic during the Spanish Civil War?

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Triple-deckers are the quintessential New England working-class housing and a local icon. Timber-framed with wooden shingles and usually built as close together as zoning permitted, what sort of steps did turn-of-the-century builders and developers take to prevent massive neighborhood fires?

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This week's theme: Mores, Customs, & Folkways

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How did steamships coordinate their speed when moving in fleets? How did engineers set the speed?

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What happened to the administrations in the puppet and client states set up by the French revolutionaries and Napoleon after they were reconquered?

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Late Cold War films like WarGames, Colossus, and Terminator 2 suggest a certain uneasiness in the American public around the junction of computers and atomic weapons. Did senior political or military figures have similar reservations about the safety or wisdom of combining these technologies?

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Why did Davy Crockett oppose the Indian Removal Act?

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How did the dust bowl affect Native Americans on the Great Plains reservations?

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This week's theme: Clubs and Organizations

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What was the logic (and logistics) behind the electrified “death fence” that imperial Germany constructed on the Belgian border in WWI?

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How did the Francoist regime view the establishment of the co-operative, worker-owned Mondragon Corporation in the 1950s, given the collectivist worker movement's allegiance with the Second Republic during the Spanish Civil War?	10
Triple-deckers are the quintessential New England working-class housing and a local icon. Timber-framed with wooden shingles and usually built as close together as zoning permitted, what sort of steps did turn-of-the-century builders and developers take to prevent massive neighborhood fires?	9
This week's theme: Mores, Customs, & Folkways	9
How did steamships coordinate their speed when moving in fleets? How did engineers set the speed?	8
What happened to the administrations in the puppet and client states set up by the French revolutionaries and Napoleon after they were reconquered?	8
Late Cold War films like WarGames, Colossus, and Terminator 2 suggest a certain uneasiness in the American public around the junction of computers and atomic weapons. Did senior political or military figures have similar reservations about the safety or wisdom of combining these technologies?	7
Why did Davy Crockett oppose the Indian Removal Act?	7
How did the dust bowl affect Native Americans on the Great Plains reservations?	6
This week's theme: Clubs and Organizations	6
What was the logic (and logistics) behind the electrified “death fence” that imperial Germany constructed on the Belgian border in WWI?	6