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When did Hollywood start portraying racism against African-Americans in a negative light?	106
In 1975, the President of Equatorial Guinea, Francisco Macías Nguema, executed 150 of his political opponents in a stadium while the Mary Hopkins song "Those were the days" played over the loudspeaker. Why did he play that song?	95
Is it known what Sergio Leone read, particularly about the American Civil War in the West, to research the settings of his spaghetti westerns?	79
If I wanted to go to a place in the present day where the environment most resembled Northern Africa's when it was the breadbasket of Rome, where would I go?	73
Was there a reason why Batista or Gaddafi did not promote themselves above the rank of colonel?	64
After the Greco-Turkish War, there was a population exchange of ethnic Greeks and Turks. The same thing happened after the division of Cyprus in the 70s. Have population exchanges been popular in other parts of the world or is this just a quirk of Greek and Turkish relations?	38
How strong was the Russian mob in the years preceding the fall of the Soviet Union?	28
In 1969, in an ad, Warner Brothers referred to Van Morrison's Astral Weeks as being an album not adopted by "the Pepsi set." In 1969, who was a member of the Pepsi set?	26
During WWII, how did the Slovakian government and people feel about the anti-Slavic rhetoric of its ally Germany?	25
It seems like almost every US war during the 20th century had a face of the enemy who would be featured in political cartoons as a representative of the enemy: the Kaiser, Hitler, Ho Chi Minh, Hussein, Bin Laden, etc. Was there any such figure during the Korean War?	22

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