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Irish Nationalist poet George William Russell became unhappy with the new Irish Free State and called it "a country given over to the devil." Why?
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In The Star Spangled Banner, Francis Scott Key writes about "rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air." What exactly were these bombs and rockets of which he speaks?
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Could someone explain the (second or both) Boer War to me? I have an interesting family connection as my Great grandfather fought in the second. What was the background of the colonies and why did the British fight the Boers?
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I heard Gladiators rarely died in fights because they were too valuable. Is this true, and if so, why was it banned?
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Earth is said to be an oblate spheroid due to the rotation pushing the equator out with centrifugal force. Does that mean if the earth stopped rotating it would return to a sphere or has it solidified in it's oblate spheroid shape?
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If a terrorist has a gun to a hostage's head and a sniper shoots him in the head with a high powered rifle, will the terrorist pull the trigger and kill the hostage as an involuntary response or will his body shut off the millisecond his brain explodes, allowing the hostage to live?
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How high could a high level athlete like Lebron James jump on Ceres, the largest asteroid in the belt? Would the landing feel the same as the landing on earth?
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