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The years 1997-1999 saw a massive outpouring of (still) wildly popular animated shows, especially geared towards adults such as Family Guy, Futurama, King of the Hill, South Park, and others. What led to this seemingly sudden flood?
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Today, much of the Middle East, especially in Jordan, Syria, and Iraq is +70% Arab, despite the Arabs once having been an outside, invading, force. When and how did the Arabs go from an occupying force to the native population? How did the Arabs come to be such a large portion of the population?
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How did the Roman Empire create such organization, strategy, and tactics for its armies in comparison to other civilizations?
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Much of American infrastructure: ports, rail lines, bridges, warehouses, etc., both operational and abandoned, looks decrepit- often rusted, with peeling paint, graffiti, concrete stains, etc. Is this a new phenomenon or was there a time when our infrastructure would have looked very differently?
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In 1959, the United States formally admitted the Territory of Hawaii as the 50th state, explicitly passing over Palmyra Island for state-hood despite being well within Hawaii's jurisdiction. Why?
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According to an article on Arab Bedouin-Ottoman relations by M. Talia Çiçek, the ottomans saw the need to send Islamic scholars and teachers to “civilize” the “savage” Bedouins. Yet the Bedouins of the time were already Muslim. In what ways would “Ottoman Islam” and “Bedouin Islam” have differed?
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How quickly did America’s “rich and powerful” emerge? What was their level of influence at the time?
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