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Is there a consensus among historians as to who was involved in the assassination of Malcolm X? Were the shooters acting alone? And who bombed Mosque No. 7?
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Did the Russian Republic of 1917 allow for representation of the non-Russian countries the Russian Empire controlled like Finland and Ukraine? Did they give them any autonomy?
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In the Star Trek DS9 episode "Far Beyond the Stars," set in 1953, a character makes instant iced tea and presents it as a novelty. What's the history of instant drinks?
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As far as I know, every society had hereditary nobility until the French and American Revolutions. Now a strong majority of the world lives in countries without them. How did the consensus against nobility develop?
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Where did the trope of bombs having a universal order of wires to cut to disable them originate from? ("First the red wire, then the blue...")
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The Wikipedia article on Winston Churchill makes him seem like an outlier on his opposition to autonomy and independence for Ireland and India, even for a British Conservative from the '30s. Did his views ever change once he was out of power? Did he reflect on his old views in the '50s and '60s?
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Since astronomers had calculated the size of the Earth accurately before Columbus set sail, what did people think between the time of his return until it was accepted that the Americas was a new continent? Were they checking their calculations?
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