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Germany lost 13% of it's European territory after WW1, and roughly 25% of its territory after WW2 which largely make up modern day Poland and Kaliningrad. What happened to all the Germans living in those areas?

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What's the actual evidence that the main reason the US invaded Iraq was because of oil?

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Bounty hunting was apart of the legal system of the wild west (Taylor vs Taintor, 1872), if someone was wanted “Dead or Alive” and the bounty hunter accidentally killed the wrong person, how was such an event handled?

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Are there any examples of peasants in Medieval Europe who rose in social class to became nobility? How was this achieved? And how was it viewed by other members of the upper classes?

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It's 1865, I am a recently freed slave in the United States, where can I go where I will run into the least racism and have the best chances for myself and my children to be economically succssful?

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What was the general opinion amongst predominantly Muslim countries following 9/11?

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Why was the United States' denazification of Germany and democratization of Japan both so successful, but not successful in the middle east?

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Germany lost 13% of it's European territory after WW1, and roughly 25% of its territory after WW2 which largely make up modern day Poland and Kaliningrad. What happened to all the Germans living in those areas?	3717
What's the actual evidence that the main reason the US invaded Iraq was because of oil?	77
Bounty hunting was apart of the legal system of the wild west (Taylor vs Taintor, 1872), if someone was wanted “Dead or Alive” and the bounty hunter accidentally killed the wrong person, how was such an event handled?	28
Are there any examples of peasants in Medieval Europe who rose in social class to became nobility? How was this achieved? And how was it viewed by other members of the upper classes?	10
It's 1865, I am a recently freed slave in the United States, where can I go where I will run into the least racism and have the best chances for myself and my children to be economically succssful?	6
What was the general opinion amongst predominantly Muslim countries following 9/11?	5
Why was the United States' denazification of Germany and democratization of Japan both so successful, but not successful in the middle east?	1