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As recently as Napoleon the head of state sometimes doubled as a battlefield commander. Did something change around his time that made such arrangements no longer feasible?
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"Awakening" and "slumber" are common motifs in the Old and New Testaments (from Samuel hearing the voice of God as he sleeps to Jesus comparing the coming of the Lord to a "thief in the night" and urging his followers to "stay awake"). Are these metaphors specific to Judeo-Christian spirituality?
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Today, there's a lot of cultural resentment towards baby boomers. Baby boomers, themselves, popularized the expression "Never trust anyone over 30", presumably about their parents generation, the generation today known as "the greatest generation". What were these resentments about?
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How were major German companies with an international profile like Bayer, Mercedes, or BASF affected by the rise of the third Reich? Did they continue to operate internationally? Were they boycotted? Did any of these companies take public positions on what was happening in Germany?
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Before JFK, were there popular topics of conspiracy theorists in 20th century America? What were they?
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In 1789, upon ratification of the US Constitution, about 6% of the population had the right to vote; was there already a narrative/self-identity of America as a democracy, or was this something that developed later on?
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Was the bonfire of the vanities a one-off, or part of a larger movement? Why Florence (a seemingly unlikely place)? Would books at the time be a signifier of class, and would class resentment have played a role in the event?
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In asoiaf, one of the crazier warriors commonly fights people one-on-one on ships, wearing armor; do we know if any vikings (or pirates, for that matter) ever wore something more cumbersome than leather armor?
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Copernicus's “De revolutionibus” was released without objection for over 70 years after his death; what led to the Catholic church to regard the work as heretical? If it was driven by the Protestant Reformation, why would the Catholic church follow their lead?
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