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How early on did the association between the incestuous reproduction & birth defects emerge in the medieval Christian & Islamic world (or the areas that would become them if earlier)?

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Was Hitler's cult of personality a novelty in early 20th century Germany, or was there already an existing culture of leader-worship?

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Did Western military strategists in the 19th and 20th century ever prefer wounding enemies over killing them?

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Aside from scalping, what purposes, ritually, strategically, socially, etc. did mutilation of enemy corpses by natives serve during the wars of the Great Plains in the 19th century?

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To what degree did the Americans and other Western powers attempt to offer a moral or ethical reasoning to their citizens/subjects for the forced opening of Japan to foreign trade in 1854?

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How did the United Farm Workers go from a multi-ethnic social/labor organization to an outwardly Chicano/Mexican/Mexican-American organization that, at least in the American Southwest middle school education I got, is remembered almost solely for racial justice/civil rights?

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My limited knowledge of Hermeticism makes it seem very "religious-y". How did Christians & Muslims in the Early Modern Period & earlier square Hermetic thinking with religious orthodoxy? Did church leaders attempt to stamp it (& related alchemy practices) down?

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How autocratic were the USSR's post-Stalin premiers? Did any try to recreate something like the old personalist autocracy (except, presumably, more rational and much less violent)?

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What cues do dogs' brains use to distinguish "inside" from "outside"? If I bring my dogs to a friend's new house I can trust them not to pee in the hallways but they also know they're allowed to pee all over the yard.

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What were the cultural changes that lead to Ireland's abolition of the death penalty in 1990 (constitutionally in 2001)? And was there a concurrent reassessment of the justification/propriety of executions undertaken by the state during the Civil War?

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How early on did the association between the incestuous reproduction & birth defects emerge in the medieval Christian & Islamic world (or the areas that would become them if earlier)?	2	AskHistorians
Was Hitler's cult of personality a novelty in early 20th century Germany, or was there already an existing culture of leader-worship?	2	AskHistorians
Did Western military strategists in the 19th and 20th century ever prefer wounding enemies over killing them?	2	AskHistorians
Aside from scalping, what purposes, ritually, strategically, socially, etc. did mutilation of enemy corpses by natives serve during the wars of the Great Plains in the 19th century?	2	AskHistorians
To what degree did the Americans and other Western powers attempt to offer a moral or ethical reasoning to their citizens/subjects for the forced opening of Japan to foreign trade in 1854?	2	AskHistorians
How did the United Farm Workers go from a multi-ethnic social/labor organization to an outwardly Chicano/Mexican/Mexican-American organization that, at least in the American Southwest middle school education I got, is remembered almost solely for racial justice/civil rights?	2	AskHistorians
My limited knowledge of Hermeticism makes it seem very "religious-y". How did Christians & Muslims in the Early Modern Period & earlier square Hermetic thinking with religious orthodoxy? Did church leaders attempt to stamp it (& related alchemy practices) down?	2	AskHistorians
How autocratic were the USSR's post-Stalin premiers? Did any try to recreate something like the old personalist autocracy (except, presumably, more rational and much less violent)?	1	AskHistorians
What cues do dogs' brains use to distinguish "inside" from "outside"? If I bring my dogs to a friend's new house I can trust them not to pee in the hallways but they also know they're allowed to pee all over the yard.	1	askscience
What were the cultural changes that lead to Ireland's abolition of the death penalty in 1990 (constitutionally in 2001)? And was there a concurrent reassessment of the justification/propriety of executions undertaken by the state during the Civil War?	1	AskHistorians