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In North America, many firehouses and other public buildings also have attached banquet halls that are often rented out. Where did this idea originate?

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Is it true that Jews were more relatively educated than their Christian neighbors in Middle Ages Europe?

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Need help: The Nazis tried to link Jews to Communism, especially after Barbarossa. How strong was this link in convincing other populaces to kill?

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On Thursday, President Obama dedicated the 1st National Park Service site to the Reconstruction period near Beaufort, SC. What impact did this place have on the US?

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What lead to the demise of the Quakers in the Delaware Valley?

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I was moving my father-in-law's items today and he showed me this sword. All he could tell me is that it was his grandmother's whose ancestry is Scotch-Irish

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In Adam Tooze's, "Wages of Destruction," he describes the Phoney War of 1939-40 resulting from a combination of weather and officers convincing Hitler that the army's morale was low. Is this the consensus?

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How did the American South become so pro-American?

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I recently read about the Old Synagogue in Przemyśl. It fell on the Russian side of the Molotov-Von Ribbentrop line, but the Nazis arrived first and burned it before retreating. Were there other incursions by either the Russians or Germans on the other side of the new borders before Barbarossa?

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Why did Mussolini's son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, flee with his family to Germany in the summer of 1943? Apparently he feared the new Italian government, but not Nazi Germany?

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In North America, many firehouses and other public buildings also have attached banquet halls that are often rented out. Where did this idea originate?	9
Is it true that Jews were more relatively educated than their Christian neighbors in Middle Ages Europe?	8
Need help: The Nazis tried to link Jews to Communism, especially after Barbarossa. How strong was this link in convincing other populaces to kill?	8
On Thursday, President Obama dedicated the 1st National Park Service site to the Reconstruction period near Beaufort, SC. What impact did this place have on the US?	8
What lead to the demise of the Quakers in the Delaware Valley?	7
I was moving my father-in-law's items today and he showed me this sword. All he could tell me is that it was his grandmother's whose ancestry is Scotch-Irish	6
In Adam Tooze's, "Wages of Destruction," he describes the Phoney War of 1939-40 resulting from a combination of weather and officers convincing Hitler that the army's morale was low. Is this the consensus?	5
How did the American South become so pro-American?	5
I recently read about the Old Synagogue in Przemyśl. It fell on the Russian side of the Molotov-Von Ribbentrop line, but the Nazis arrived first and burned it before retreating. Were there other incursions by either the Russians or Germans on the other side of the new borders before Barbarossa?	4
Why did Mussolini's son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, flee with his family to Germany in the summer of 1943? Apparently he feared the new Italian government, but not Nazi Germany?	4