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The US Government Has Not Successfully Prosecuted A Major Antitrust Case Since the United States v. AT&T in 1984. Why is this?	3702
North American Children's programming in the early to mid-90s often featured a strong environmental message. What forces contributed to the interest in this topic for children's programming and why did it stop?	368
Egypt was conquered by the Achaemenid Empire in the fifth century BC, and would go on to be ruled by a series of foreign empires for 2500 years until the formation of the Republic of Egypt in 1953. Why were the Egyptian people unable to achieve autonomy in all that time?	33
Tsar Alexander II is noted for implementing many social reforms, including legal emancipation of serfs. Given this, why was he assassinated by revolutionaries?	32
What is the earliest point at which a US private citizen could have accessed the internet? What would they have been to do on it??	24
In the Japanese manga "Vinland Saga", the author makes several claims about slavery, race mixing, and economic factors as they apply to 11th century Scandinavia. How accurate are they?	18
How did the Reagan administration fail to address the AIDS crisis in the 1980s?	14
What factors prevented a single, native ruler from uniting Gaelic Ireland prior to the Norman Invasion? Did anyone ever get close to a cohesive state encompassing the whole island?	11
What is the current state of Japanese historical scholarship in Japan itself?	10
How well did Princess Diana's public persona match her personality in private, particularly as a spouse and mother?	6

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