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Did the Allies have to deal with Japanese POWs committing suicide en masse towards the end of or directly after WW2?
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Did the ancient Empires of the world ever have republican or democratic movements? Was everyone pretty chill about it, or were there groups in Egypt or Rome who wanted to change the fact that everyone was living under a dictatorship?
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How were the illegitimate children of allied soldiers and civilians recorded in/after WW1, WW2, and the Vietnam war? Were they?
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What was the economic incentive to write great works of poetry? How did the great writers of history feed themselves as they worked on huge tomes, and who was buying them?
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Was there ever any conflict between Islamic rulers of the the near and far East over differences in theology?
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How reliable were the parachutes used by the first combat paratroopers? What was the failure rate in percentage of those deployed?
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I read that the US Invasion of Panama was the first conflict that happened after the Goldwater–Nichols Act. What was it, what changes did it make to US military command structure, and why were those changes necessary in the first place?
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