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In the Travels of Marco Polo, Marco says that an army of 20,000 Persians died on the road between Kerman and Hormuz do to suffocation from the extreme heat. Is there any record of this?	8	AskHistorians
I'm curious, with the mafia presence in southern cities like Tampa and New Orleans what was their relationship like with the anti-Catholic Ku Klux Klan?	8	AskHistorians
I'm curious, was the 'Southern Switch all about racism? How did the more secular Anti-War 'New Left' sit with rural democrats? What about the uptick in crime? The Cold War? How about the growth of middle class? Or the Neo-liberal revolution of the late 70s and early 80s?	8	AskHistorians
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	AskHistorians
The wiki page for the Tong Wars in California says the first Tong leader, Low Yet, was a former Red Turban rebel, and sites Richard H. Dillion as source. Except Dillion does not say that, he says he was Taiping rebel. What's the deal? Is there a piece of info wiki is leaving out? Or what?	5	AskHistorians
What did Barry Goldwater think of Thurgood Marshall/ putting him on the Supreme Court? He was a member of the NCAAP, but also had a very conservative view of court.	4	AskHistorians
What did John Rabe have to say about the Holocaust? Did see any similarities between what he had witnessed and what Germany was doing?	3	AskHistorians
According to Wikipedia there was a spike in demand for English wool in 1200's. Seeing as how Magna Carta, and the Barons Rebellions, the origins of the Robin Hood legend, and the expulsion of the Jews from England also took place in 1200s, is it possible these events are connected in anyway?	3	AskHistorians
What role if any did the anti-missionary riots in China play in the passage of the Chinese Exclusion act in the US? (More in details)	3	AskHistorians
Looking at an election map of 1872 and noticing that the 'Black Belt' in the south was all in for Grant, why? Horace Greeley was also an abolitionist Republican, and as an advocate for socialism, wouldn't newly freed slaves have gotten more from him then from Grant?	3	AskHistorians

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