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Are there any documented cases of German rank-and-file soldiers objecting to the Holocaust on moral grounds and refusing to follow orders at concentration camps, or otherwise openly challenging those crimes against humanity? If so, what happened to them?
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Popular culture is full of stories of "lost arts" that actually aren't (we do know how to make damascus steel, for example). Are there technologies or techniques superior to modern ones that actually were, and remain lost?
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[Meta] There are more deleted posts these days than ever before. Has the quality of discourse gone down over the last few years, or does the mod team enforce the rules more strictly than before?
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Can you give me an overview of magic in medieval Norse society? What did it look like? Who practiced it? Are there any written sources describing its use?
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Christianity has a history of converting the followers of other faiths - whether via coercion, persuasion, bribery, or any other means. Are there examples of the reverse taking place? Have any long-term, established Christian communities converted to another religion by that religion's missionaries?
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What was law enforcement like in cities of the middle ages? Was there any distinction between law enforcement and soldiery?
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Why has the supreme court historically not been bound by the code of ethics that applies to other federal judges?
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In the middle-third of the 20th century, a number of reputable scientists and institutions (like the CIA) regarded the study of altered/altering consciousness, ESP and transcendental spirituality as credible areas of scientific inquiry, not pseudoscience. Why? And why did that eventually change?
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