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I'm an established professor of English literature in the 1950s. What do I think of this Tolkien fellow and his new books? Is this trilogy with 'orcs' and 'hobbits' serious literature worthy of study?

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How were Guy Fawkes and his conspirators able to acquire so much gun powder? Was it easy to get?

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Was the Sherman tank a name resented by US soldiers from the south during WWII?

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What was the reason for pockets of Canadian support of the South in the US Civil War? Particularly in Canada East (Quebec).

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Did the 1972 Summit Series hockey tournament generate much general interest in the United States and Europe?

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Was it Protestantism or Secularism that was mostly against Ontario's full funding of Catholic schools in the mid-1980s?

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What's the oldest known holiday for which one might get a day off?

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How were West Berliners restricted from buying or bartering East Berlin food during the Berlin Airlift?

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I'm a pig on a small North American family farm in the 1920s. What's my diet, time and space outside of a pen, the value of my shit, and life expentancy?

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Was there a genuine sense that England was ripe for invasion because the monarch, Elizabeth I was a woman? Was there a European precedent for particularly invading a nation with a female head of state?

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I'm an established professor of English literature in the 1950s. What do I think of this Tolkien fellow and his new books? Is this trilogy with 'orcs' and 'hobbits' serious literature worthy of study?	1945
How were Guy Fawkes and his conspirators able to acquire so much gun powder? Was it easy to get?	932
Was the Sherman tank a name resented by US soldiers from the south during WWII?	597
What was the reason for pockets of Canadian support of the South in the US Civil War? Particularly in Canada East (Quebec).	25
Did the 1972 Summit Series hockey tournament generate much general interest in the United States and Europe?	21
Was it Protestantism or Secularism that was mostly against Ontario's full funding of Catholic schools in the mid-1980s?	17
What's the oldest known holiday for which one might get a day off?	17
How were West Berliners restricted from buying or bartering East Berlin food during the Berlin Airlift?	15
I'm a pig on a small North American family farm in the 1920s. What's my diet, time and space outside of a pen, the value of my shit, and life expentancy?	15
Was there a genuine sense that England was ripe for invasion because the monarch, Elizabeth I was a woman? Was there a European precedent for particularly invading a nation with a female head of state?	14