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Besides British administrators & profiteers themselves were there any large/powerful social groups in colonial India against independence? What happened to them post independence?
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I hear often about Latin and Greek graffiti during the classical period. What about medieval graffiti? Does the presence or absence of urban graffiti in the middle ages correlate with fluctuating levels of literacy in urban populations?
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How did large pre-modern and early modern states prepare for or deal with social problems caused by demobilization after conflicts?
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In Late Medieval/Early Modern Europe and Western Asia did prosperity for the political center correlate with better quality of life for the political and social periphery? In other words, did richer kings have healthier and happier peasants than poorer kings?
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If I wanted a good, annotated English translation of Ibn Fadlan's observations of the Rus, where should I look?
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Today the state, insurers, and religious and secular NGOs are variously expected to be prime organizers of disaster response and restitution. Who, if anyone, provided organized response to sudden weather-related disaster in Mediterranean antiquity, especially before the 1st century CE?
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How and why did sports become so heavily subsidized by the USSR? Why did the USSR feel sports was important enough to establish a sports council just 3 years after the troubles of the Revolution? Was there a major change in government involvement around the '52 Olympics?
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In popular Russian cultural memory today Лихие 90-е (the hard 90s) is discussed as an almost apocalyptic era of decline. But did Russians of the time actually perceive it as such, especially compared to the crises of the late Soviet Union?
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Do male sharks & their relatives exhibit "clasperedness"? i.e. do individuals prefer to use on or another of their two claspers in mating more often than others & does it vary similarly to right & left handedness in humans?
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Today the state, insurers, and religious and secular NGOs are variously expected to be prime organizers of disaster response and restitution. Who, if anyone, provided organized response to sudden weather-related disaster in Mediterranean antiquity, especially before the 1st century CE?
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