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We've heard of the Red Scare, the fear of communism in the USA, but was there a "Blue Scare" in the Soviet Union?
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Why were the Knights of Ni still using herrings to chop down trees when the rest of Britannia favored the larger, more durable Atlantic cod?
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Did anything like chopsticks ever evolve independently in the non-Asian world? Did Europeans, Africans or pre-Colombian Americans use chopsticks?
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Why did Britian not develop as much of a food culture as other great Empires. Italy, France, Spain are known for a culture of excellence in cuisine whereas Britian doesn't take it as seriously
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In 1926, British unions pulled off a rare feat: a nation-wide general strike. The consensus is that this had no effect on British Industrial relations. Why did it have no effect? This seems uncommon for general strikes, which usually have had either clear positive or negative effects for labor
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In Dan Carlin’s “King of Kings” podcast, he claims that it is possible that Darius I could’ve killed one or both of Cyrus The Great’s sons to become emperor and made up the story about Gaumata the Usurper as a cover-up. How true is this claim? Is this a valid theory that historians take seriously?
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