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Fear of being prosecuted seems like a significant motivator in the late Roman republic. Would this give skilled orators greater liberty in their actions? Why wouldn't someone like Caesar just try to 'beat the charges', as it were?	2
In his book 'The Great Influenza', John Barry writes that it was the active policy of the Wilson administration to suggest that people report any seditious behavior of their neighbors. Was this, in fact, something they encouraged? Were they paranoid, or was seditious behavior common?	2
The wikipedia article for King John mentions that his contemporary chroniclers were harshly critical of him; would these have been circulated publicly? How?	2
There have been many questions asked about Stonewall; are there any particular unheralded stories you'd like to highlight?	2
Were those fleeing the French Revolution welcome openly in other countries? What sort of impact did this have on those nations' relations with the new republic?	2
Are there theories for why racial violence and hostility spiked in the teens and 1920s (the peak of Klan membership, when 30000 Klansmen marched down Pennsylvania Avenue)? Were any steps taken to reduce this problem? Would these problems have gotten international attention?	2
Philip II himself was quite a successful military leader; why is his son Alexander so much more famous?	2
Was America inevitably going to declare war on Germany after Pearl Harbor, had Hitler not pre-emptively declared war first?	2
What sort of consequences did French Vichy collaborators face?	2
What's James Burke's (Connections, The Day the Universe Changed) reputation like in academia?	2

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