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Did the Bolsheviks invent the "party cell" or clandestine cell as the formalized default lowest level of membership or did other organizations develop the idea first?

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Was Abraham Lincoln unusually harassed by office-seekers?

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I’m watching Trading Places (1983), and the “pit” trading system seems bananas, even 40 years later. How similar was this kind of trading to historical maker trading in, say, 1883. Or the markets that Fernand Braudel describes in 1583 (or earlier).

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What was the relationship (if any) between the German communists from 1918-1933 with Soviet Russia?

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What was the significance of Nixon's enemies list? What was done or planned to be done to the people on the list? Was such a list unusual?

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Are there any oral history, minute-by-minute accounts of the Pearl Harbor attacks as experienced by White House staff similar to the 2016 Politico account of 9/11?

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How much prize money could a crewman expect to earn during the Napoleonic Wars? If they wanted to save/invest it, how would they go about it? Would it be enough to buy their children a commission?

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Was Stilton traditionally eaten with maggots?

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What is Caesaropapism? Was it ever a real ideology with tenets and proponents or was it a negative description by later observers?

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Was there ever such a Habsburg-held title as "Duchess of Auschwitz" and was it held by Zita of Bourbon-Parma at her death?

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Did the Bolsheviks invent the "party cell" or clandestine cell as the formalized default lowest level of membership or did other organizations develop the idea first?	11	AskHistorians
Was Abraham Lincoln unusually harassed by office-seekers?	11	AskHistorians
I’m watching Trading Places (1983), and the “pit” trading system seems bananas, even 40 years later. How similar was this kind of trading to historical maker trading in, say, 1883. Or the markets that Fernand Braudel describes in 1583 (or earlier).	10	AskHistorians
What was the relationship (if any) between the German communists from 1918-1933 with Soviet Russia?	10	AskHistorians
What was the significance of Nixon's enemies list? What was done or planned to be done to the people on the list? Was such a list unusual?	8	AskHistorians
Are there any oral history, minute-by-minute accounts of the Pearl Harbor attacks as experienced by White House staff similar to the 2016 Politico account of 9/11?	8	AskHistorians
How much prize money could a crewman expect to earn during the Napoleonic Wars? If they wanted to save/invest it, how would they go about it? Would it be enough to buy their children a commission?	7	AskHistorians
Was Stilton traditionally eaten with maggots?	6	AskHistorians
What is Caesaropapism? Was it ever a real ideology with tenets and proponents or was it a negative description by later observers?	6	AskHistorians
Was there ever such a Habsburg-held title as "Duchess of Auschwitz" and was it held by Zita of Bourbon-Parma at her death?	6	AskHistorians