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Why has public transportation infrastructure been so neglected in the past half century in cities in the United States as opposed to other parts of the world?
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In the U.S. during the 19th and early 20th centuries it seems to have be not uncommon for immigrants to change their names to be perceived as more assimilated.
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Is there a consensus by historians on the claims made by Alfred W. McCoy in The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia that the United States military and CIA were complicit in facilitating the trade of Heroin in and Opium?
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Millers in preindustrial times could often be spotted by the flat shape of their thumbs, a result of years of continously rubbing grain between their thumb and forefinger. Were there any types of physiological markers that other tradespeople had as a result of their trade/craft?
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Are there any accounts of pre-industrial armies successfully making winter crossings of mountain ranges?
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What over-land contact did people living in China during the Ming Dynasty have with Europe, Persia other lands to the west?
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Why have trains and other forms of mass transit in the United States lagged so far behind many other nations in the past half century or more?
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