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Seleukos left Egypt with about 1000 cavalry, and yet would not only retake his own, but conquer the eastern two-thirds of the Antigonid holdings. How did he manage to build an army and defeat them?

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A great many pirates started as privateers or outright navy sailors. Were there any cases where a pirate was recruited into a fleet?

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How did people (especially in the Americas, and European nations using the Gregorian calendar) respond to New Year's Day 2000?

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What really happened during the Altalena Incident?

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What was the role of propaganda in Israel in the build up to and during the first Lebanon war?

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How were kites received by cultures, when they first encountered them spreading westwards from China?

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Socrates be honest, did it ever get on your nerves to be continually, publically turned into a mockery by Aristophanes? How did you like it?

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Thanks to concerted efforts there is significant awareness on the Holocaust and antisemitism, but so little on the Armenian genocide that people believe fallacies to this day. How can we all (historians and the rest of the public) help correct this so propaganda today isn't as effective?

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Though British Mandatory Palestine came to an end in 1948, in what ways did the British continue to try and exert their influence in the decades after?

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What were relations like between the Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Papacy?

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Seleukos left Egypt with about 1000 cavalry, and yet would not only retake his own, but conquer the eastern two-thirds of the Antigonid holdings. How did he manage to build an army and defeat them?	1
A great many pirates started as privateers or outright navy sailors. Were there any cases where a pirate was recruited into a fleet?	1
How did people (especially in the Americas, and European nations using the Gregorian calendar) respond to New Year's Day 2000?	1
What really happened during the Altalena Incident?	1
What was the role of propaganda in Israel in the build up to and during the first Lebanon war?	1
How were kites received by cultures, when they first encountered them spreading westwards from China?	1
Socrates be honest, did it ever get on your nerves to be continually, publically turned into a mockery by Aristophanes? How did you like it?	1
Thanks to concerted efforts there is significant awareness on the Holocaust and antisemitism, but so little on the Armenian genocide that people believe fallacies to this day. How can we all (historians and the rest of the public) help correct this so propaganda today isn't as effective?	1
Though British Mandatory Palestine came to an end in 1948, in what ways did the British continue to try and exert their influence in the decades after?	1
What were relations like between the Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Papacy?	0