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Why do Americans often appear to have such a strange/fanatical relationship with their historic constitution compared with other countries?

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Did the birth of the printing press, and the ability to cheaply mass produce publications lead to similar problems with ‘fake news’ and misinformation as we now have with the internet and particularly social media?

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How truly original/radical were the ideas of Jesus and the early church viewed at the time? How much did they borrow from other established philosophies?

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Why did so many more UK soldiers die in WWI compared to WWII?

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Was the belief in the theory of racial hierarchy that seemed prevalent in the 18/19th centuries cynically ‘invented’ to help justify/rationalise the slave trade?

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Why do Americans often appear to have such a strange/fanatical relationship with their historic constitution compared with other countries?	248
Did the birth of the printing press, and the ability to cheaply mass produce publications lead to similar problems with ‘fake news’ and misinformation as we now have with the internet and particularly social media?	19
How truly original/radical were the ideas of Jesus and the early church viewed at the time? How much did they borrow from other established philosophies?	3
Why did so many more UK soldiers die in WWI compared to WWII?	2
Was the belief in the theory of racial hierarchy that seemed prevalent in the 18/19th centuries cynically ‘invented’ to help justify/rationalise the slave trade?	2