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Where are we on "No Irish Need Apply", historically/historiographically speaking?	2517
Was there an objective to Apartheid in South Africa? Did it merely wish to establish a permanent underclass along racial lines or did it intend to ethnically cleanse areas for an exclusive white presence/nation? Or something else?	510
In preparing eunuchs, why did the Chinese cut off the twig and the berries, when in the Middle East/Byzantium they just removed the berries?	221
Why is the Hindenburg Disaster so famous? Is it just the dramatic video and images or is there some importance above and beyond other early air disasters?	218
Macbeth was first performed in 1611 at the height of witch trials in Britain, do we know what Shakespeare's contemporaries would have thought of witchcraft on stage?	214
In pre-Christian Rome, how high could an observant Jewish person climb in Roman society?	114
In the film "Glory," the Massachusetts 54th, whose troops seem to mostly speak AAVE, meet a "contraband" regiment who almost sound like they're speaking a Caribbean patois. Would there have been that much of a speech difference between freed slaves from the South and northern free blacks?	109
Did the Japanese at Pearl Harbor consider attacking US command and control targets like pacific fleet staff offices?	104
Did pre-Christian Roman paganism (i.e. the Roman, Greek, Egyptian pantheons) have an eschatology? What did it consist of? Were there any pagan groups in the Roman world that believed the end of days was imminent?	61
Did Ben Franklin ever write or comment personally on his son siding with the British and then going into exile in London?	55

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