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Did Chekism and Whataboutism exist in Tsarist Russia? If not, when/how/why were they invented in the USSR?

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[Fashion] Are there discernible big picture trends in the use of colors? For the color photography era, I haven't noticed any (though I'm not very conscious of these things).

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How and when did the contemporary American definition of "White" as a racial identity come about?

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How knowledgeable was Shakespeare on the the periods and places he set his plays?

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According to wikipedia, "[Benjamin] Bell was the progenitor of one of the great Edinburgh surgical dynasties." What were the other Edinburgh surgical dynasties, how did Edinburgh come to have multiple great surgical dynasties, and were any of them greater than the Bell dynasty?

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When did medicine first become what we would recognize as scientific (or "evidence based," to use the current buzzword)?

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What did segregation of the WWII-era US military mean day-to-day? Did it have any effect on strategy, tactics, or logistics, during WWII?

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How do you detect revisionism by a past historian? What about good, old bias?

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[Trade] Was by water always the cheapest and/or preferred way of moving goods?

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What were the predominant Cossack views, on WWII?

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Did Chekism and Whataboutism exist in Tsarist Russia? If not, when/how/why were they invented in the USSR?	8
[Fashion] Are there discernible big picture trends in the use of colors? For the color photography era, I haven't noticed any (though I'm not very conscious of these things).	8
How and when did the contemporary American definition of "White" as a racial identity come about?	8
How knowledgeable was Shakespeare on the the periods and places he set his plays?	8
According to wikipedia, "[Benjamin] Bell was the progenitor of one of the great Edinburgh surgical dynasties." What were the other Edinburgh surgical dynasties, how did Edinburgh come to have multiple great surgical dynasties, and were any of them greater than the Bell dynasty?	8
When did medicine first become what we would recognize as scientific (or "evidence based," to use the current buzzword)?	8
What did segregation of the WWII-era US military mean day-to-day? Did it have any effect on strategy, tactics, or logistics, during WWII?	7
How do you detect revisionism by a past historian? What about good, old bias?	7
[Trade] Was by water always the cheapest and/or preferred way of moving goods?	7
What were the predominant Cossack views, on WWII?	7