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Today, there’s a lot of debate among men and women over child support payments and it’s fairness. But when those original laws mandating it were passed what were reactions of men at the time?	2
How did federal Indian law develop in the United States? When did the idea of federal Indian trust responsibility emerge?	2
Simon Sebag Montefiore's book In The Count Of Red Tsar he describes a woman who, during the height of The Great Terror, would stand up during public meetings and say that she had a "feeling" some person was an traitor to the USSR. Is there any other information on her? Did she exist?	2
What factors, either cultural, environmental, or technical, allowed the idea of voting and democracy to arise in Greece and not somewhere else?	2
How do Catholics fit into the First and Second Great Awakenings?	2
How accurate are the claims that North Korea today is what China and Russia were like under Mao and Stalin?	2
After decolonization, how did the U.S. State Department go about training interpreters for newly formed African nations?	2
Both the USSR and Germany dealt with massive amounts of sexual assault and rape during World War II. After the war however, how did the respective nations deal with it?	2
Rock and Jazz were both genres inextricably linked with the African American community before spreading across the world. How did it fit inside the cultures of countries like Mexico and the many nations South America? Both of which had there own messy history when it came to race.	2
How did the Soviet Union and it’s various satellite states like Poland or Romania handle epidemics like HIV, Smallpox, or Polio?	2

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