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Puerto Rico is one of the richest and most populous island states of the Caribbean. Why haven't there been any significant independence movements there?

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Was pre 1945 society familiar with the concept of atomic weapons?

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As a nation that lived its golden age under a Republican regime, and that lives next door to (and was once occupied by) France, how come Republicanism is nearly never heard of in the contemporary Netherlands?

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I was reading on the siege of Uxellodunum - how did Romans mass poison cities? Poisoning streams? If so, what was used?

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Why and how does Ukraine consistently rank up as the world's most equal country, right ahead of countries like Norway and Denmark?

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Jews, Christians and Muslims are all "the people of the book". Does the core written doctrine (i.e. written core works such as the Bible, therefore excluding Islamic legal scholarship, Pontifical Decrees, etc) of any of these three groups praise or justify holy wars against one another?

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Puerto Rico is one of the richest and most populous island states of the Caribbean. Why haven't there been any significant independence movements there?	3
Was pre 1945 society familiar with the concept of atomic weapons?	2
As a nation that lived its golden age under a Republican regime, and that lives next door to (and was once occupied by) France, how come Republicanism is nearly never heard of in the contemporary Netherlands?	2
I was reading on the siege of Uxellodunum - how did Romans mass poison cities? Poisoning streams? If so, what was used?	2
Why and how does Ukraine consistently rank up as the world's most equal country, right ahead of countries like Norway and Denmark?	2
Jews, Christians and Muslims are all "the people of the book". Does the core written doctrine (i.e. written core works such as the Bible, therefore excluding Islamic legal scholarship, Pontifical Decrees, etc) of any of these three groups praise or justify holy wars against one another?	0