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Did those who were German/Japanese/Italian/Other Axis immigrants to Allied countries in WW2 know about atrocities of the Axis and come to fear that the Allies might do something similar to them in revenge? NSFW	1
Why weren´t the Franks among those who migrated to Britannia the same way that the Jutes, Saxons, Frisians, Angles, Danes, and Norse in late antiquity and the Early Medieval Period were?	1
What do we know about the development of musket and cannon tactics in Subsaharan Africa?	1
How plausible would it be that a group of bandits in the High Middle Ages might be able to get away with doing something like capturing the Sheriff of Nottingham for a short duration and pressuring him into not interfering with the group of bandits?	1
In the Lord of the Rings, Theoden King attempts to kill Grima Wormtongue but Aragorn physically stopped the king. Would this kind of physical restraint for a purpose like that be tolerated in a time like the High Middle Ages (1300 for instance) in Western Europe (HRE, France, Angevin Empire, etc)?	1
Why are most leaders of republics known by a single surname while most monarchs are known by a given name, often one associated with a previous monarch, as well as a number?	1
What was the British backup plan in the Second World War if for some reason Britain and Northern Ireland were seized by the Axis?	1
How much would you say that it would be appropriate to call what happened in France during the Second World War to also be a Civil War between French people?	1
Why did Romania adopt judicial supremacy over parliamentary supremacy after WW1?	1
Imagine that I am from.the Global South during the Cold War. I hear that the Eastern Bloc has open slots for education and invites people from the Global South. How do I get to study?	1

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