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A U.S. Civil War veteran writing about the conflict remarked that even "[i]n peace the South was a semi-military camp." What were conditions like in the South that would lead him to make this comment?

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I once heard that, even at the height of the empire, British mapmakers would draw Britain on the edges of maps, indicating they thought they were as far as one could get from the center of the Christian world, and that this played an outsize role in the British psyche. Is this a credible argument?

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Was there 'organized crime' in the Pre-Colombian Americas?

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How was the Brooklyn Bridge funded?

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Were slaves brought to America allowed any "luggage?"

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How did common English people learn about the discovery of the Americas? What information would they have had for those who decided to migrate there?

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A U.S. Civil War veteran writing about the conflict remarked that even "[i]n peace the South was a semi-military camp." What were conditions like in the South that would lead him to make this comment?	3128
I once heard that, even at the height of the empire, British mapmakers would draw Britain on the edges of maps, indicating they thought they were as far as one could get from the center of the Christian world, and that this played an outsize role in the British psyche. Is this a credible argument?	184
Was there 'organized crime' in the Pre-Colombian Americas?	39
How was the Brooklyn Bridge funded?	9
Were slaves brought to America allowed any "luggage?"	7
How did common English people learn about the discovery of the Americas? What information would they have had for those who decided to migrate there?	2