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Portugal offered to return Macau to China in 1967, 1975 and 1977 but China refused and the handover didn't happen until 1999. Why?
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Did the Russians, before comparative linguistics proved the relationship, see any similarities between Native Americans and the small-numbered peoples in Russia when they colonized America?
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Brazil is a huge country. One could easily imagine that over the course of time it would have splintered into 2, 3, or five different countries. What has kept it together?
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How did the Chinese government treat ethnic minorities like the Manchu, Hui, Zhuang, Uighur and others during the Cultural Revolution; and how did that treatment change in the decades following the Cultural Revolution?
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Why does it seem like there were so many serial killers in the 50s-80s, but not so many now? Have we just not caught the modern day killers?
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Amongst former colonies in Africa, Botswana stands out for growth, political stability, etc, despite suffering massively from the AIDS epidemic. Why is Botswana so unusually successful?
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