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Why has an American politician never asked a foreign government to investigate another American politician before?
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The Sunni Faisal I became king of majority Shiite Iraq because he was rejected by the majority Sunni Syrians, paving the way for decades of Sunni domination of Iraq. Why did the Syrians reject Faisal?
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In the Old Testament, Samuel distinguishes rule by judges from rule by kings. What exactly was the difference between these two forms of government?
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In the 2020 elections, people could vote over multiple days. Why could people historically only vote on one day? Was there every any debate about this in premodern history?
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Why did the wealth disparity between the richest 1 percent and the 99 percent go down in the early 20th century in the West?
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Hannibal had one eye. Homer was blind. Are there any historical figures who had notably GOOD eyesight?
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Gibbon describes an ancient Roman legal fiction where a wife was "sister to her children," and "daughter to her husband." The power of the father seems identical in scope to the power of the husband, but did the Romans think of it the same way legally?
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