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The Black Death, a severe epidemic that ravaged fourteenth century Eur

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gmacforjyoab

27 Jul 2025, 02:03

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19 May 2026, 13:30

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Historians of womens labor in the United States at first largely

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Carcass

09 Mar 2026, 08:54

107

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51,505

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19 May 2026, 07:27

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Prevailing scholarly opinion holds that modern science began with the

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DensetsuNo

05 Mar 2026, 13:29

358

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67,462

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18 May 2026, 07:46

Studies of the effect of viewers' involvement

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ashutosh_73

29 Apr 2024, 08:58

38

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17 May 2026, 16:15

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Those scholars who are engaged in the attempt to explain human

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gmatt1476

02 Sep 2023, 08:00

115

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20,494

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16 May 2026, 23:20

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Between 1965 and 1970, welfare caseloads more than doubled and costs

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pushpitkc

17 Apr 2026, 04:28

35

5

15,857

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16 May 2026, 04:28

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Specialists in international communications almost unanimously assert

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gmatt1476

27 Jul 2022, 07:30

14

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8,138

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13 May 2026, 23:24

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Extraordinary creative activity has been characterized as revolutionar

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pathy

21 Jan 2020, 06:49

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14,711

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13 May 2026, 22:30

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In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, many Western Pueblo

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eybrj2

05 Mar 2026, 13:36

104

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13 May 2026, 21:29

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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and

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Gnpth

12 May 2026, 06:23

22

13

24,167

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12 May 2026, 05:28

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It is an odd but indisputable fact that the seventeenth-century Englis

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RaviChandra

22 Feb 2026, 05:38

660

51

135,724

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12 May 2026, 00:03

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To understand John Rawls's theory of justice, one first needs to grasp

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akanshaxo

11 May 2026, 04:33

71

13

20,118

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11 May 2026, 04:16

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In 1860 in the United States, of all employees, only state judges in s

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DerekLin

04 Feb 2024, 22:06

29

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10,951

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09 May 2026, 17:30

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When Jamaican-born social activist Marcus Garvey came to the United

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omidsa

03 Jun 2025, 03:38

376

37

116,188

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09 May 2026, 02:41

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Roger Rosenblatts book Black Fiction, in attempting to apply literary

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pathy

07 May 2026, 03:26

40

4

18,419

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08 May 2026, 20:46

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The federal government faces a crisis in the way it collects, analyzes

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gmatt1476

02 Mar 2024, 09:00

12

13

5,600

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05 May 2026, 05:53

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While it may seem simple and unobjectionable to non-specialists, one

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Bismarck

30 Apr 2026, 02:51

22

3

7,770

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04 May 2026, 20:01

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Recent feminist scholarship concerning the United States in the 1920s

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viper1991

15 Jul 2025, 21:56

431

34

73,807

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02 May 2026, 15:41

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Bernard Bailyn has recently reinterpreted the early history of the

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broall

25 Mar 2026, 06:23

34

7

19,875

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02 May 2026, 05:45

ER

Many philosophers disagree over the definition of morality, but most

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globaldesi

06 Mar 2026, 11:36

22

6

8,617

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30 Apr 2026, 20:25

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Scholars working on the history of women in modern Ireland have in

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guddo

20 Mar 2026, 13:33

32

5

9,898

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29 Apr 2026, 02:45

ER

The fundamental relationship in United States politics at the state

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coreyander

28 Apr 2026, 21:49

48

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15,748

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28 Apr 2026, 20:46

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The Department of Energy (DOE) was created by the Carter administratio

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aragonn

25 Apr 2026, 23:37

5

6

7,401

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25 Apr 2026, 19:57

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Opponents of compulsory national service claim that such a program is

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nitya34

25 Apr 2026, 10:25

48

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21,801

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25 Apr 2026, 07:33

ER

Utilitarian models of the state, subordinating individual rights

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PrashantPonde

17 Mar 2026, 11:47

218

5

34,015

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25 Apr 2026, 00:30

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For most of its 4000-year history, chocolate was a delight known only

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ExpertsGlobal5

10 Feb 2026, 05:05

12

11

1,849

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24 Apr 2026, 07:48

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Agricultural progress provided the stimulus necessary to set off

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09173140521

23 Apr 2026, 22:50

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10,456

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23 Apr 2026, 22:47

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"I want to criticize the social system, and to show it at work, at its

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Carcass

09 Apr 2026, 09:01

37

10

17,816

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23 Apr 2026, 21:46

ER

The jury trial is one of the handful of democratic institutions that

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gmatt1476

14 Jun 2021, 20:30

13

5

8,787

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22 Apr 2026, 23:09

ER

The delegates to the Constitutional Convention were realists.

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09173140521

28 Mar 2026, 12:53

31

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18,514

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22 Apr 2026, 12:45

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Social historians have noted that European social and political though

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gmatt1476

06 Mar 2023, 07:00

15

5

6,101

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21 Apr 2026, 12:16

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A theorist of modernization in underdeveloped countries has defined th

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globaldesi

21 Apr 2026, 02:49

12

3

6,290

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21 Apr 2026, 00:48

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Some people maintain that the whole of medieval society can be explain

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TheUltimateWinner

20 Apr 2026, 21:33

17

5

8,910

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20 Apr 2026, 17:35

ER -2

In contrast to traditional analyses of minority business

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anilnandyala

16 Mar 2026, 12:10

69

11

38,081

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18 Apr 2026, 12:44

ER -2

The Romansfor centuries the masters of war and politics across Europe

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aragonn

06 Dec 2018, 05:51

15

10

10,174

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18 Apr 2026, 10:57

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For years, U.S. employers have counted on a steady flow of labor from

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samark

16 Mar 2026, 06:37

247

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17 Apr 2026, 13:45

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In establishing economic policy, policymakers usually rely on preexist

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gmatt1476

29 Apr 2020, 02:10

21

7

7,302

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15 Apr 2026, 02:57

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One way governments can decrease air pollution is to impose a tax on

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gmatt1476

12 Apr 2026, 12:22

13

4

10,694

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14 Apr 2026, 22:20

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Correspondences were a method of thought and expression used

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coreyander

14 Jul 2020, 02:02

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27,055

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14 Apr 2026, 02:07

ER -1

In the eighteenth century, Japans feudal overlords, from

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nsp007

14 Apr 2026, 03:42

77

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14 Apr 2026, 01:26

ER

In England the burden of history weighs heavily on common law

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PrashantPonde

01 Mar 2026, 12:08

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7

45,749

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12 Apr 2026, 07:40

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Historians have identified two dominant currents in the Russian women

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PiyushK

05 Mar 2026, 12:57

170

18

49,507

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11 Apr 2026, 08:32

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In her account of unmarried womens experiences in colonial

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abhi758

09 Mar 2026, 09:06

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11 Apr 2026, 08:32

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In colonial Connecticut between 1670 and 1719, women participated in

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gmatbull

06 Mar 2026, 06:16

101

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56,529

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09 Apr 2026, 03:30

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Historically, relations between workers and employers in the United

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DensetsuNo

09 Mar 2026, 09:42

108

8

43,524

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08 Apr 2026, 20:57

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It is their sensitive response to human circumstance that accounts for

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globaldesi

20 Feb 2020, 21:34

24

6

8,486

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08 Apr 2026, 20:36

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An Australian group named Action Council on Smoking and Health (ACSH)

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Sajjad1994

16 Nov 2021, 23:00

9

2

3,743

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07 Apr 2026, 06:41

ER

The identification of femininity with morality and a belief in the

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AN225

04 Apr 2026, 10:40

88

11

45,978

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04 Apr 2026, 10:22

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The Vienna Circle, an association of philosophersgathered around the U

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gmatt1476

24 Apr 2020, 09:26

21

12

6,996

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04 Apr 2026, 10:22

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For many years, theoretical economists characterized humans as ration

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vards

09 Mar 2026, 09:58

39

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28,596

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04 Apr 2026, 10:22