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What is the history of Catholicism and left-handedness?

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Gunpowder aside, what successful paths were chemists pursuing during the era of nascent firearms? Alchemy aside, what dead ends were chemists stuck in during this time? Did the success of gunpowder legitimize alchemy?

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Wikipedia makes the unsourced claim that Henry 8's massing of saker artillery consumed so much bronze that there was "a world shortage of tin." Is that true?

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Did European arrival to the Indian Ocean have any impact on cuisine in the coastal regions or islands of Africa or Asia?

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Why did Czarist Russia and the Qing dynasty collapse in the early 1900s?

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Between the Pacific Theater, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War, why did the United States spend 30 years dropping massive amounts of incendiaries and explosives on civilians in eastern and southeastern Asia?

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How did the Ottoman cicak helmet travel roughly 3,000 km to become the English lobster-tailed pot? What were the similarities and differences in Ottoman and English design, manufacture, and use of these helmets?

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Were there many specific similarities between the Japanese and Vietnamese war efforts to outlast the United States' will to fight, or are these just two conflicts with the broad overlap of being fought in eastern Asia and being notorious for attrition?

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Did the reunification of Vietnam lead to the destruction of the Vietnamese punk scene?

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Russian frontier fortifications such as the Great Abatis Line were primarily constructed from wood and existed well into the Early Modern Period. What prevented attackers from using gunpowder or incendiary weapons to destroy these fortifications?

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What is the history of Catholicism and left-handedness?	3
Gunpowder aside, what successful paths were chemists pursuing during the era of nascent firearms? Alchemy aside, what dead ends were chemists stuck in during this time? Did the success of gunpowder legitimize alchemy?	3
Wikipedia makes the unsourced claim that Henry 8's massing of saker artillery consumed so much bronze that there was "a world shortage of tin." Is that true?	3
Did European arrival to the Indian Ocean have any impact on cuisine in the coastal regions or islands of Africa or Asia?	3
Why did Czarist Russia and the Qing dynasty collapse in the early 1900s?	2
Between the Pacific Theater, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War, why did the United States spend 30 years dropping massive amounts of incendiaries and explosives on civilians in eastern and southeastern Asia?	2
How did the Ottoman cicak helmet travel roughly 3,000 km to become the English lobster-tailed pot? What were the similarities and differences in Ottoman and English design, manufacture, and use of these helmets?	2
Were there many specific similarities between the Japanese and Vietnamese war efforts to outlast the United States' will to fight, or are these just two conflicts with the broad overlap of being fought in eastern Asia and being notorious for attrition?	2
Did the reunification of Vietnam lead to the destruction of the Vietnamese punk scene?	2
Russian frontier fortifications such as the Great Abatis Line were primarily constructed from wood and existed well into the Early Modern Period. What prevented attackers from using gunpowder or incendiary weapons to destroy these fortifications?	2