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I'm trying to send an urgent message from London to New Zealand in the year 1880: what is the shortest time it could possibly take to get there?

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In Nazi-occupied Europe, how many Jews (and others classed as "Untermenschen") are known to have escaped the Holocaust simply by hiding their ethnic background?

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When and where did the idea of aliens visiting Earth enter the popular imagination?

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What examples, if any, are there of people seriously considering the possibility of human spaceflight prior to the 19th Century?

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I'm trying to send an urgent message from London to New Zealand in the year 1880: what is the shortest time it could possibly take to get there?	62
In Nazi-occupied Europe, how many Jews (and others classed as "Untermenschen") are known to have escaped the Holocaust simply by hiding their ethnic background?	7
When and where did the idea of aliens visiting Earth enter the popular imagination?	3
What examples, if any, are there of people seriously considering the possibility of human spaceflight prior to the 19th Century?	1