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White supremacists and other riff-raff like to claim that South Africa has a drastically higher murder rate post-1994 than it did under apartheid. Is there any truth to this view?

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According to Wikipedia, over 800 languages are spoken in New York, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the modern world. Is it also the most linguistically diverse city in history thus far?

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How significant was the new cartridge drill in causing the Indian Sepoy Mutiny?

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How important was the American contribution to the Allied stopping of the Ludendorff Offensive?

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Did Southern veterans who had served in the desegregated US military have a different attitude to Jim Crow and segregation than their civilian neighbours?

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How much did the Nazis' antisemitism affect their intelligence and foreign policy calculations?

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What has been the general response of scholars to Perry Anderson's "The Indian Ideology"?

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Why do historians assume Calgacus was made up by Tacitus?

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Were the Industrial Revolution and capitalism the result of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade?

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1 A common fantasy trope is of wandering adventurers who travel from town to town seeking work as mercenaries, bodyguards, bandit-fighters and swords-for-hire. Was this a common occupation in Medieval Europe?

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White supremacists and other riff-raff like to claim that South Africa has a drastically higher murder rate post-1994 than it did under apartheid. Is there any truth to this view?	5
According to Wikipedia, over 800 languages are spoken in New York, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the modern world. Is it also the most linguistically diverse city in history thus far?	5
How significant was the new cartridge drill in causing the Indian Sepoy Mutiny?	4
How important was the American contribution to the Allied stopping of the Ludendorff Offensive?	4
Did Southern veterans who had served in the desegregated US military have a different attitude to Jim Crow and segregation than their civilian neighbours?	4
How much did the Nazis' antisemitism affect their intelligence and foreign policy calculations?	3
What has been the general response of scholars to Perry Anderson's "The Indian Ideology"?	3
Why do historians assume Calgacus was made up by Tacitus?	3
Were the Industrial Revolution and capitalism the result of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade?	3
1 A common fantasy trope is of wandering adventurers who travel from town to town seeking work as mercenaries, bodyguards, bandit-fighters and swords-for-hire. Was this a common occupation in Medieval Europe?	3