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Why give Joan of Arc an army?	3
How did Japanese culture become unified across the archipelago? (Or is/was it?) Japan experts, what do you make of the idea that Japanese culture is shaped by its agricultural roots?	3
What were the demographics of the US military in the 1950s and what filtered/sorted different demographics into different positions? Pilots and aviators were very disproportionately WASPs, weren't they?	3
Deke Slayton commented about the aftermath of WWII that "The Marines fought their way up and they fought their way back, and they said we just took it. But most of the Japanese were still there. The Army was more methodical than the Marines. When they took something, they held it." Is that accurate?	3
"Our Germans vs their Germans" - who thought of the space race this way, when? Was it our Germans vs their Germans?	3
[Balkans] What geopolitical advantages did the Eastern Roman Empire have over the Western Roman Empire? My cursory understanding is that the East's political maneuvering was better but does that alone explain its survival?	3
Bush Sr. negotiated NAFTA and was US president during the actual dissolution of the USSR but you don't hear much about him. What was his peace-based foreign policy and influence on the world? Especially as it relates to globalization, the week's theme and, I'm guessing, a theme of Bush's presidency?	3
Why is Leonardo da Vinci known by his given name and birthplace? Why are other Renaissance artists known by only their given names?	3
What did Viennans know about Napoleon Bonaparte, in 1802-5?	3
Was Soviet rocketry ever more advanced/capable than US rocketry?	3

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