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How did courts work in Scotland? How did people enter into a court? Did the monarch basically put them up in the castle, for company, until they wore out their welcome?

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I hear that occasionally, an American slave is able to purchase their freedom. In a chattel slavery system, how are slaves able to have any possessions, nevermind amass enough to purchase themselves?

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Did Karlfried Graf Dürckheim ever denounce Nazism or anti-Semitism?

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Do we have any translations of beowulf in old or middle English?

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What made capitalism different from previous forms of manufacture and trade?

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Was Lincoln's Gettysberg Address contain critique of the Confederacy? What is the goverment "of, by and for the people" that is under threat?

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Is it certain that Lucas made the original Star Wars trilogy as an allegory for the American war in Vietnam?

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Was Emil Maurice, the founder of the SS and Hitler's chauffeur, actually Jewish in any meaningful sense?

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Did ancient Romans talk expressively with their hands, the way modern Italians do?

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How did FDR acquire his very leftist political outlook an agenda? He was from the upper crust, and therefore was said to be a "class traitor". Why did he go this way?

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How did courts work in Scotland? How did people enter into a court? Did the monarch basically put them up in the castle, for company, until they wore out their welcome?	1
I hear that occasionally, an American slave is able to purchase their freedom. In a chattel slavery system, how are slaves able to have any possessions, nevermind amass enough to purchase themselves?	1
Did Karlfried Graf Dürckheim ever denounce Nazism or anti-Semitism?	1
Do we have any translations of beowulf in old or middle English?	1
What made capitalism different from previous forms of manufacture and trade?	0
Was Lincoln's Gettysberg Address contain critique of the Confederacy? What is the goverment "of, by and for the people" that is under threat?	0
Is it certain that Lucas made the original Star Wars trilogy as an allegory for the American war in Vietnam?	0
Was Emil Maurice, the founder of the SS and Hitler's chauffeur, actually Jewish in any meaningful sense?	0
Did ancient Romans talk expressively with their hands, the way modern Italians do?	0
How did FDR acquire his very leftist political outlook an agenda? He was from the upper crust, and therefore was said to be a "class traitor". Why did he go this way?	0