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Is there any connective tissue between the European Spring 48' and the Taiping Rebellion in China? Famines, economic forces or technological shifts?	18
In one of the 'the Beyond the Bastards' podcast episodes, they describe the nuclear reactor Saddam Hussein was building in 1981 as a 'power plant,' is that true? An oil rich country at the height of the Iran-Iraq war building a nuclear reactor for energy purposes sounds fishy to me.	13
Its my understanding that Kaiser Wilhelm II got his copy of Alfred Mahans 'The Influence of Sea Power on History' as a gift from President Teddy Roosevelt. Since this was around the time of the Anglo-German Naval race, does Roosevelt deserve any of the blame for enabling it?	13
The Mongols and Arabs were known for their horses and neither succeeded in conquering all of Western Europe, but Rome which was more of a foot soldier military did. Did pastorage play a role in Europe resisting the Arab and Mongol invasions?	11
Did Gavrilo Princip blame himself for WW1? Did the fallout from his actions effect him emotionally or psychologically?	11
Was 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea based on the CSS Hunely?	10
In his dialogues on Atlantis, Plato claims that Solon had translated the story from old Egyptian records, seeing as how Plato himself traveled to Egypt years earlier, could the story be inspired by other Egyptian stories like the Sea Peoples Invasions or the great flood in Genesis?	9
How accurate is the Secret History of the Mongols? The whole time Genghis comes off as reacting to other peoples aggression, he acts like he's being forced to do what he did. Almost like he's the victim. It reads like propaganda to me.	9
On Google images there are photos supposedly of Hong Xiuquans son and his cousin Rengan, A.) are these real? And B.) are there photos of Hong himself?	9
Reading up on the civil wars in Mozambique, Angola, the Rhodesian Bush War, and Namibia War, I'm noticing Botswana seems to be left out. Am I reading that correctly? How did they avoid the fighting? Did they play a role in these conflicts/were they affected by them?	8

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