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Star Trek had the first interracial kiss on US television. How did contemporary Americans react to the kiss? How much emotion (good or bad) did it invoke, and how influential was that moment, for US society?
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Why did the Vikings stop raiding? Do we know who launched the last ever raid? And did they know ot was the last raid when they went on it?
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I am currently in Mallorca, and the weather is oppressively hot. How did the Roman soldiers manage to march around in this (and other hotter places) in full kit, let alone conduct a battle in the heat of the day in the middle of summer? How many casualties were simply due to the heat?
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When discussing Axis troops in WW2, the Italians and Romanians are often seen as weaker or inferior forces. The facts do seem to indicate that they were less effective than the German troops. Why?
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During WWII, the Germans infiltrated and controlled the resistance in the Netherlands. The head of the German Abwehr in the Netherlands later claimed that he and his men helped British airmen escape back to Britain in order to maintain the cover story of the network being intact. Is this true?
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