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Did the US ever consider intervening on the side of Israel in any of its wars against the Arab states?	1
Is there any practical or theological difference between Crusades and the Holy Leagues established by or with the Pope's efforts that fought the Ottomans?	1
In Kotkin's second volume of his Stalin biography he says "In 1939...Nikolai Pogodin ... had taken in 732,000 [rubles] in royalties and payments." How did royalties work in the USSR? And what could Pogodin have spent his money on?	1
How did the French avoid labor shortages and starvation inside France itself during the Revolution and Napoleonic Wars given so many of its men were under arms?	1
Were there (or are there) any Buddhist traditions that dealt out abuse (physical/verbal/sexual) as a formal part of fostering detachment, as tests of concentration or some other part of achieving enlightenment?	1
When did the social and legal restrictions on women typical of Ancient Greece disappear from Greek culture? The Hellenistic era, the Roman or late Roman/Byzantine periods?	1
How and why did the English come to identify with being 'British' and when/how did they adopt King Arthur as a national hero given his mythical opposition to the Anglo-Saxons? That is, why did the English come to see themselves in Arthur and the Britons when their ancestors were his enemies?	1
I've read that during the Republic, establishment of the right to intermarry was a big feature of Rome's treaties with their allies. Did this continue into the Late Roman/Byzantine period? For example, was there a formal treaty with their vassals the Ghassanids that mentioned intermarriage rights?	1
How was animal sacrifice treated in early and medieval Christianity? Did it show up at all in Judaizing sects?	1
Do Mandaeans authentically have a religious descent from John the Baptist or was their association with him adopted sometime later? If it's authentic, do they preserve John's actual teachings - and if so does that tell us anything about the state of religious thought in Judea at the time?	1

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