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We often hear about how the computers running the Apollo Program were very advanced for their time. How did the Soviet space program computers, of the same era, compare to what NASA/MIT developed?
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A comment I saw yesterday talked about Japanese expeditions during the 1930s looking for some sort of primordial "master race" that spawned the Japanese. What did Japanese racial theory look like during the 1930s and what was its relationship with German racial theory?
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The Ancient Greeks are believed to have lacked a word for blue (the wine-dark sea!), yet Indian Indigo was also a highly sought-after luxury good. Are there any early accounts of Greeks describing the dye?
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My Ghana friend said that African leaders refused to accept American slaves return, because they were sold into slavery because they were unwanted into the community due to criminal behavior. He said it is similar to the British sending their criminals to Australia? Is this true?
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Marseilles was founded as a Greek colony in 600 BC, centuries before other cities in France. How has this fact affected the politics, culture, and identity of Marseilles from then to the present?
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In the U.S. Civil War Battle, the Second Battle of Fort Wagner, the battle made famous by the movie Glory, it looks to me like it was incredibly poorly planned. Can anyone explain why the Union attacked the way they did?
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I've heard that the Bolshevik negotiators at Brest-Litovsk, having realised that they had forgotten to bring a peasant representative for the delegation, found a random peasant en route and brought him along to sit in. He then spent the time getting happily drunk. Any truth to it?
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Why was Christianity able to convert the whole of Europe? What about it made it so successful compared to older, native, religions?
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In Jewish eschatology, the Messiah is expected to gather the Jewish people back to the land of Israel; was Ben Gurion thought of as the Messiah by some Jewish groups? Why or why not?
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