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What was the first legislative attempt at gun control in the United States, and what were the arguments for it and what were the arguments against it?
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Why did Saudi Arabia refuse to accept Osama bin Laden's offer to use his troops during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait?
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Were there ever any organized efforts to blow up or demolish the Berlin Wall prior to its opening in 1989?
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Was there a pattern of decrease in university attendance by the late 1960s as parents did not want to send their kids to tumultuous campuses?
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Tony Judt explains in Postwar: "The [Eastern European] Communists' stated objective in 1945 and 1946 was to complete the unfinished bourgeois revolutions of 1848..." How effective was this? Did people believe them? Were Eastern Europeans in 1945 still looking at the goals of 1848 as desirable?
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I'm really interested in the Middle East, but know barely anything about it. What are some good ways to approach late 19th and 20th Century (until 1995) Middle Eastern history in order to have a basis to understand the region of the world better today?
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Is there a database to see how many Americans volunteered to fight the Nazis prior to America entering the war?
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John C Calhoun and other Southern intellectuals were radical by proposing that Southerners should not apologize for slavery because it was a "positive good" that was beneficial to masters and slaves. Were there any arguments more radical, that slavery was good because Blacks deserved to be enslaved?
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