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William the Conqueror was a duke in Francia, but became king of his conquered lands in England. How did the king of Francia feel about this? Wasn't that weird? Like the governor of California just going and conquering a part of Mexico for himself, but not the U.S.? Was that ok with the other dukes?	157
People speculate about Bitcoin someday having a value of $100,000/coin, and producing a generation of billionaires. Putting aside the credibility of these hopes, has their ever been a time in history when something other than business created a whole new rags-to-riches 1% class?	60
What's the story about how Marx, a German writer, causes a drastic revolution in Russia? At what point has no one heard of his books? At what point is it whispered about by the daring fringe? At what point is it the talk of every dinner table?	32
Has there ever been a crisis that killed off a nation's rich and powerful, leaving the previously disenfranchised to inherit the earth? I'm imagining, as an example, a food eaten exclusively by the rich being contaminated and killing them all off, or some other class-connected disease vector.	2
A while ago in a thread here someone said that Saddam Hussein thought the US wouldn't get involved when he invaded Kuwait. How often have wars happened that the US/UN/Europe didn't get involved in? Are conflicts that are left alone by the big powers as rare or nonexistent as it seems to me?	1
Have a country's borders ever evolved so that it eventually had no territory in common with its original borders?	0
History/anthropology question about the origins and universality of spanking/familial corporal discipline.	0

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