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What's the deal with Russian Cossacks, that is, how did 'free' peasants become symbols of Tsarist/modern Russian authoritarianism?

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During Prohibition in the United States did use of other psychoactive drugs rise in correspondence to the fall in alcohol consumption?

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How were Ataturk's Turkish language reforms received by Turkish minorities outside Turkey? Were they adopted or did Turkish-speaking minorities in e.g. Bulgaria, Syria, Iraq retain Ottoman Turkish vocabulary and writing systems?

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How did Albert, the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, manage to retain their assets/land upon his conversion to Protestantism and become Duke of Prussia? Why would his uncle the Polish king Sigismund I, a Catholic monarch, consent to the assets of a Catholic order being seized?

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Did medieval and early modern Islamic countries have public prosecutors or did all legal matters or inquiries have to be initiated by private individuals?

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How did the term squire go from meaning a knight-in-training to a landowner with tenant farmers in England?

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Despite Hasan being the elder of Muhammad's two grandsons, Shia leadership has seemingly been firmly in the lineage of his younger grandson, Hussein's, descendants. Have Hasanids ever tried to reclaim Shia religious primacy?

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How had/has Lebanon managed to keep a large Christian population?

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What's the deal with Old Cairo being called Babylon? When did this begin and why?

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39 Did the Islamic daily prayers have any equivalent in Judaism or Christianity at the time of early Islam in terms of the repetition of fixed body positions - standing, bowing, prostration?

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What's the deal with Russian Cossacks, that is, how did 'free' peasants become symbols of Tsarist/modern Russian authoritarianism?	4
During Prohibition in the United States did use of other psychoactive drugs rise in correspondence to the fall in alcohol consumption?	4
How were Ataturk's Turkish language reforms received by Turkish minorities outside Turkey? Were they adopted or did Turkish-speaking minorities in e.g. Bulgaria, Syria, Iraq retain Ottoman Turkish vocabulary and writing systems?	4
How did Albert, the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, manage to retain their assets/land upon his conversion to Protestantism and become Duke of Prussia? Why would his uncle the Polish king Sigismund I, a Catholic monarch, consent to the assets of a Catholic order being seized?	4
Did medieval and early modern Islamic countries have public prosecutors or did all legal matters or inquiries have to be initiated by private individuals?	4
How did the term squire go from meaning a knight-in-training to a landowner with tenant farmers in England?	4
Despite Hasan being the elder of Muhammad's two grandsons, Shia leadership has seemingly been firmly in the lineage of his younger grandson, Hussein's, descendants. Have Hasanids ever tried to reclaim Shia religious primacy?	4
How had/has Lebanon managed to keep a large Christian population?	4
What's the deal with Old Cairo being called Babylon? When did this begin and why?	4
39 Did the Islamic daily prayers have any equivalent in Judaism or Christianity at the time of early Islam in terms of the repetition of fixed body positions - standing, bowing, prostration?	4