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I was a Polish baker in Lwow before WW2. Now the Soviets have decided to move the entire Polish nation westward. What does this look like for me? Where do I end up?

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What was it like for Black British soldiers during The Troubles in Northern Ireland?

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Why was the Constitution Act of 1982, which patriated the Canadian Constitution from the UK, so controversial in Quebec?

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How has Holocaust historiography changed in recent decades? Have any new interpretations become mainstream? Have others fallen out of favour recently?

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Was there any hostilities in North America during the Crimean War between British North America and Russian Alaska?

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Wikipedia says that after Apartheid ended, the uMkhonto we Sizwe resistance fighters were "integrated" into the new South African military. What was this integration like? Where they retrained? Did they form separate units? Were there lingering tensions?

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Why did Dutch develop into a separate language in South Africa (Afrikaans) but French never developed into a separate language in Canada?

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Realistically, what are the odds of bailing out of a fireship or hellburner successfully?

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What did Mexicans think of the "All of Mexico" movement? Was their any support for the idea of annexing Mexico into the United States among Mexicans themselves at the time?

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In "World of Tanks," early tanks are described as using signal flags to communicate. Is there truth to this? How did individual tanks communicate before the adoption of radio?

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I was a Polish baker in Lwow before WW2. Now the Soviets have decided to move the entire Polish nation westward. What does this look like for me? Where do I end up?	24
What was it like for Black British soldiers during The Troubles in Northern Ireland?	21
Why was the Constitution Act of 1982, which patriated the Canadian Constitution from the UK, so controversial in Quebec?	11
How has Holocaust historiography changed in recent decades? Have any new interpretations become mainstream? Have others fallen out of favour recently?	7
Was there any hostilities in North America during the Crimean War between British North America and Russian Alaska?	7
Wikipedia says that after Apartheid ended, the uMkhonto we Sizwe resistance fighters were "integrated" into the new South African military. What was this integration like? Where they retrained? Did they form separate units? Were there lingering tensions?	7
Why did Dutch develop into a separate language in South Africa (Afrikaans) but French never developed into a separate language in Canada?	6
Realistically, what are the odds of bailing out of a fireship or hellburner successfully?	4
What did Mexicans think of the "All of Mexico" movement? Was their any support for the idea of annexing Mexico into the United States among Mexicans themselves at the time?	3
In "World of Tanks," early tanks are described as using signal flags to communicate. Is there truth to this? How did individual tanks communicate before the adoption of radio?	3