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Most Colonized nations like India retained their native languages, why do Mexicans speak mostly Spanish and how did it become the dominant language?
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In WW2, German infantry doctrine revolved around the LMG, and the entire squad was meant to support it. American infantry doctrine revolved around the riflemen and integrated support elements. Soviet infantry doctrine revolved around SMG's. What was British and Japanese infantry doctrine like?
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Did ancient civilizations have the concept of going to the beach as a mean for relaxation, to get a tan, swim in the sea/ocean?
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Ernest Shackleton took a three-masted wooden schooner to the Antarctic in 1915. By this date, I'd expect something with a metal hull and an engine. When did wooden, wind-propelled ships go out of favor?
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Why do we say use foreign terms such as Caliph and Caliphate or Khan and Khanate but English terms like emperor for Emperor of China and Emperor of Japan, rather than Huangdi of Zhongguo and Tennou of Nihon?
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When Guy Fawkes was arrested in the undercroft of parliament, he said his name was Jon Jonson. Was this name silly and obviously fake back then?
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Is there a particular reason the US Supreme Court is full of Catholics, a religious minority in America who've in the past faced prejudice?
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With Russian state TV telling their citizens to “Prepare for nuclear war” justifying it with “We all die someday”, I have to ask, nuclear weapons have been a threat for over 50 years, why hasn’t technology been developed to disarm or destroy nuclear missiles?
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