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Were 1920s citizens of Germany surrounded by warnings of rising fascism - or did they stumble blindly into what happened over the next decade?

341 upvotes • JaJaSlimGold

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To what extent did post-USSR Russia attempt to align itself with the West before cementing itself as an adversary, and what was the role of the CIA in leading it to its current position?

341 upvotes • SigmundFreud

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Did foreign black Africans in the United States receive relatively better treatment than native-born black Americans during the Jim Crow era?

341 upvotes • Yellompu

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"All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health..." is this Monty Python quote accurate? Would a citizen of Judea have a long list of benefits from Roman Rule?

341 upvotes • TheColourOfHeartache

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Why has America become more adverse to adopting more “socialist” policies compared to other western countries like Canada, Germany or France?

341 upvotes • Plenty-Ad3939

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Why did Lithuania get so little land after it's independence in 1918, considering it's great territory as Grand duchy of Lithuania?

340 upvotes • WouldbangMelisandre

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Is there an English list or database of fallen soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II?

340 upvotes • salvatorestax

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As Gerald R. Ford was being sworn in as President, (former) President Nixon was on Air Force One over Missouri on his way home. What happened with the nuclear football during this time? Did Nixon have it since he was technically President? Or did only Ford have it?

340 upvotes • George_S_Patton_III

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In ancient Rome, Pliny the Elder wrote of the “disgusting” nature of Cockroaches urging the pest be put to death so what exactly were roman pest control like? Was exterminator a job in ancient Rome?

340 upvotes • UnfunnyInSanAntonio

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Leonardo da Vinci died in 1519, some 27 years after Columbus's first voyage. In the intervening decades, did the famed polymath ever comment on the discovery of the New World?

340 upvotes • Mcfinley

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Were 1920s citizens of Germany surrounded by warnings of rising fascism - or did they stumble blindly into what happened over the next decade?	341	JaJaSlimGold
To what extent did post-USSR Russia attempt to align itself with the West before cementing itself as an adversary, and what was the role of the CIA in leading it to its current position?	341	SigmundFreud
Did foreign black Africans in the United States receive relatively better treatment than native-born black Americans during the Jim Crow era?	341	Yellompu
"All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health..." is this Monty Python quote accurate? Would a citizen of Judea have a long list of benefits from Roman Rule?	341	TheColourOfHeartache
Why has America become more adverse to adopting more “socialist” policies compared to other western countries like Canada, Germany or France?	341	Plenty-Ad3939
Why did Lithuania get so little land after it's independence in 1918, considering it's great territory as Grand duchy of Lithuania?	340	WouldbangMelisandre
Is there an English list or database of fallen soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II?	340	salvatorestax
As Gerald R. Ford was being sworn in as President, (former) President Nixon was on Air Force One over Missouri on his way home. What happened with the nuclear football during this time? Did Nixon have it since he was technically President? Or did only Ford have it?	340	George_S_Patton_III
In ancient Rome, Pliny the Elder wrote of the “disgusting” nature of Cockroaches urging the pest be put to death so what exactly were roman pest control like? Was exterminator a job in ancient Rome?	340	UnfunnyInSanAntonio
Leonardo da Vinci died in 1519, some 27 years after Columbus's first voyage. In the intervening decades, did the famed polymath ever comment on the discovery of the New World?	340	Mcfinley