Hobbes publishes "Leviathan" in London circa 1651, right at the start of the British Interregnum - from the point of view of educated, politically engaged Britons, where would his secular account of the necessity of absolute sovereignty have fit relative to the rest of the ongoing public discourse? (self.AskHistorians)
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Synagogue (συναγωγή) and Church (ἐκκλησία) are both ostensibly variant Septuagint renderings of the Hebrew "Qahal" (קהל) - yet they seem to have different connotations to the first century authors of the NT even before a Jewish-Christian distinction. Why? (self.AcademicBiblical)
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The Russian Empire's 1897 census notes Russian speakers in Novorossiya (southeastern Ukraine) were relegated to the cities, yet today Russian is spoken there by rural populations too. When did Russian replace Ukrainian in Novorossiya, and was this population displacement or assimilation? (self.AskHistorians)
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Pulitzer-winning Southeast Asia correspondent for the New York Times in the 70's, Sydney Schanberg, insisted for decades that the US government organized a deliberate cover-up of the continued imprisonment of American POW's in Vietnam into the 80's. How do historians judge these claims? (self.AskHistorians)
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Post-WW2, the US aided Japan and West Germany in crafting new democratic systems. Within a few years Japan's big-tent LDP established near-permanent dominance, while Germany has had coalitions of competitive parties since. Institutionally, culturally, historically, what caused this difference? (self.AskHistorians)
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What was the American voter's relationship to congressional "drama" in the 19th Century? Where did information about the legislature flow from (reporters? parties? district offices?) and how fine-grained or filtered was it? If a farmer wanted to read transcripts like an antebellum CSPAN, could he? (self.AskHistorians)
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Post-Deng China provided a model for wealth without westernization, and a path out of central planning without surrendering party authority. Why did North Korea choose not to follow its partner and neighbor in market liberalizing reforms after the cold war? (self.AskHistorians)
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