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Mormons make a lot of religious claims that one would think are historically researchable. What historical evidence backs up or refutes the claims Mormonism makes?
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How did the three-meal day become standard throughout the world? We’re there any cultures that ate more or less meals in a day?
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In the Netflix series "The Queen's Gambit", some characters in New York City make a direct phone call to Moscow in 1968. Would something like that actually be possible in real life? An american civilian making a phone call to the USSR during the cold war?
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Why were hijackings all the rage in the 1970s? What caused them to seemingly stop being the go-to thing to do for terrorists in the 80s? Why weren’t there post-9/11-style safety regulations implemented after the first hijacking?
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[META] It was India week, but the bulk of the India questions went unanswered. Why? Even if there's no interest in the West in Indian history, India has a huge population of English speakers. Is academic history not a popular subject in India?
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Admiral Nimitz: Mistake number one: the Japanese attacked on Sunday morning. Nine out of every ten crewmen of those ships were ashore on leave. If those same ships had been lured to sea and been sunk--we would have lost 38,000 men instead of 3,800." Is this a fair assessment ?
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The Tokyo Stock Exchange was in operation for much of WWII up to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the firebombing of Tokyo. What were the conditions of Japan's stock market like during the course of the war, especially as Japan's cities and industry were destroyed by Allied bombs?
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