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How did wealthy Antebellum Southern women (or their pastors for that matter) confront - if they did at all - the fact that their husbands, fathers, and most of their sons were regularly committing adultery and sexual assault in their own households?
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Many cultures traditionally placed the seat of consciousness in the heart or liver, etc, (i.e. not the brain). Did people in the medieval European or Islamic worlds believe that a chest/heart injury could lead to behavioral change the way moderns, in Phineas Gage fashion, believe about brain injury?
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How did wealthy Antebellum Southern women (or their pastors for that matter) confront - if they did at all - the fact that their husbands, fathers, and most of their sons were regularly committing adultery and sexual assault in their own households?
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"Don’t you worry, <The British> are not going to shoot any of <the Easter Rising fighters>, they'd be much too afraid of America." Why would the British fear a response from the United States from executing Irish republican fighters in 1916, or rather, why would Irish republicans believe they would?
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Would the majority of Roman gladii survive a single tough battle? Or a dory or similar infantry spear, for that matter?
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Why was it that as early as the year 2000 that regime change in Iraq was part of the U.S. Republican Party platform, a year before the 9/11 attacks & the "Axis of Evil" & 3 years before the eventual war?
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The Soviet Union had various programs and policies intending to protect and promote minority ethnic and culture groups. Did they work? Or was there also de facto or de jure Russification happening at the same time, particularly in the East?
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Has the declassification initiative by the French Ministry of Defense in the last year regarding its nuclear weapons program presented any major surprises to researchers so far? What's the state of research on these newly available documents anyway?
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How did ancient Mediterranean armies maintain supplies despite attritional equipment losses? Was a sword, shield, or spear that actually met an enemy expected to last more than one battle? How did large armies manage to rearm during long conflicts without modern mass production?
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