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In WW2, did anti-aircraft weaponry fire so many shots because of the difficulty hitting targets, or also because aircraft could withstand many hits?
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Were songs that we currently associate with the Vietnam War (eg. Fortunate Son, All Along the Watchtower) actually popular during the War, or has the association just come from movies about it?
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What did the North Vietnamese Army do to all of the South Vietnamese Army once they captured Saigon and ended the war? Were a lot of people killed on the South Vietnamese Army side once the Americans left?
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I've been told that Columbus wrote that Caribbean natives "had no Religion". If that's true (is it?) was it that he was just arrogantly refusing to call the Taíno belief system "a religion", or was he genuinely incapable of recognizing alien spiritualistic/ritualistic behavior?
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Reading the Three Kingdoms, one gets the (obviously romanticized) impression that serving in one of the available armies was almost like a vacation from farming, and wasn't likely to lead to death or dismemberment. What was the reality for ancient Chinese infantry?
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Currently legislators from older generations seem to have trouble making laws that regulate new technologies such as the internet, social media and genetic engineering, similarly did older generations have trouble regulating new technologies like electricity, radio and cars of their time?
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