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Why didn't the allies bomb auschwitz in 1944?

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In Varlam Shamalov's Kolyma Tales, the author makes several references to lend-lease items in the GULAG camps. To what extent did American authorities know that lend-lease goods were being used in slave labor?

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is it true that ancient Roman script did not have punctuation or spacing between words? If so how did people even read it?

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Why did Christianity and Islam carry the on the Judiac practice of male circumcision?

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During the early Reformation, how much did a Bible cost as a proportion of average annual income?

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When was the concept of "North" standardized?

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Was the Fate of the Provisional Russian Government Sealed?

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What we're the Venerable Bede's sources?

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Why did the accused in the Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka and Mjandek trials receive such light sentences/get acquitted?

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How were ~1500 soldiers able to retake Grozny in Aug. 1996?

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Why didn't the allies bomb auschwitz in 1944?	4
In Varlam Shamalov's Kolyma Tales, the author makes several references to lend-lease items in the GULAG camps. To what extent did American authorities know that lend-lease goods were being used in slave labor?	4
is it true that ancient Roman script did not have punctuation or spacing between words? If so how did people even read it?	4
Why did Christianity and Islam carry the on the Judiac practice of male circumcision?	3
During the early Reformation, how much did a Bible cost as a proportion of average annual income?	2
When was the concept of "North" standardized?	2
Was the Fate of the Provisional Russian Government Sealed?	2
What we're the Venerable Bede's sources?	2
Why did the accused in the Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka and Mjandek trials receive such light sentences/get acquitted?	2
How were ~1500 soldiers able to retake Grozny in Aug. 1996?	2