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Before modern communication (radio, TV, internet etc), how where people informed about the treaty of a war? For example did some Prussian guy just ride in Silesia after the Silesian war and say "Hey guys! You're all Prussian now. Alright, cya!" How did people usually react to this?	372
How come there was grafitti on the Berlin Wall if it was so heavily guarded?	126
During The Progressive Rra, Many Republicans and Roosevelt supporters were anti-trust, pro-union, etc. But by the time FDR proposed the New Deal, these same Republicans made up the bulk off the opposition? What caused this seeming reversal off attitude?	67
If forts were deemed useless after ww1, why did the french build the Maginot Line and why didn't the Germans wanna go through it?	25
The fall of Constantinople and thus Rome is often cited as the beginning of the Reneissance as the scholars fled to Italy where their knowledge could spread to the rest of europe. What made the rest of europe unable to access this knowledge? Were they unaware it even existed?	24
How much power did the kings of the polish Lithuanian commonwealth have and what role did dynasties have?	15
What are some aspects of Historical education these days that bother you? Are there some areas we give too much attention to? Some we give too little or completely neglect that deserve more attention? Is there anything about the way we typically look at history that is incorrect or faulty?	10
How much do you have to know about history to earn a degree in history, let alone a masters or phd?	6
Of the German Empire knew that Russia would take long to mobilize, Why wasn’t the schlieffen plan about taking out Russia first?	6
In The Great Dictator (1940) though both dictators are portrayed as arrogant and foolish, it is Hitler who is portrayed more as clumsy and incompitent while Mussolini, though also ridiculed, is portrayed as at least more compitent than Hitler. How come these two have essentially switched places?	5

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