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Are all people who have names related to British nobility (i.e. Lancaster, Windsor, Murray) actually distantly related to those families, or did some peasants occasionally adopt more prestigious surnames in later centuries?
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So far scientists have been unable to unify quantum mechanics with general relativity. Is there a reason we assume that this is possible to begin with?
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Americans were using African slaves while also displacing Native Americans. Why didn't the Europeans just enslave the Native Americans?
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It's 1939/1940, and I'm living in far north Finland in a small isolated settlement. How does the Soviet invasion of Finland affect me? Would I even know it was going on?
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Did ancient civilisations have any theories as to what would happen if you hypothetically went to the bottom of the spherical earth? Without our understanding of gravity, did they think you'd just fall off the south pole?
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Hitler never restored the Monarchy after the end of the Weimer Republic. But many who believed the "stabbed in the back" myth implicated Republicans as well as Jews and Communists. Were any high ranking Nazis disillusioned by Hitler's Republicanism/lack of support for the Monarchy?
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[WP] It's the year 2050. North and South Korea have been long since been reunified, and the former border has been opened to the public. You are a Korean highschool student on an excursion for history class, and can't believe this is what Korea used to be like.
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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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