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How would people be identified before the advent of photographs?	19
Has the United States ever gotten into a direct military conflict with Russia where casualties were involved?	18
How did Jim Jones manage to garnish so much positive press and direct praise from influential figures such as Harvey Milk and Jerry Brown?	18
How did the Roaring Twenties happen when the decade before saw both WWI and the Spanish Flu Epidemic, essentially wiping out an entire young generation? What were the lasting negative effects of losing so many young people from 1914-1920?	18
According to etymology dictionary, the "C word", C**t, was "Used in medical writing c.1400, but avoided in public speech since 15c.; considered obscene since 17c." What factors cause a word to go from medically official to obscene in just 300 years?	11
If Pinochet's coup was motivated in response to Allende's policy of resource nationalization, why did copper remain nationalized in Chile? In other words, why did the United States and Chilean corporations go through the trouble to support a coup if resources remained nationalized?	10
Why didn't the United States invade Cuba during Castros Revolution? It intervened in Korea and Vietnam, why not Cuba?	7
During the Korean War, MacArthur sent a letter to the Speaker of the House stating that "if we lose the war to communism in Asia the fall of Europe is inevitable, win it and Europe most probably would avoid war and yet preserve freedom." Is there any valid basis for MacArthur's claims?	5
Can anybody point me to a good work or discussion on the rise of the religious right in the Republican Party? Especially the mechanisms the religious right employed to gain influence within the party.	4
"In the early colonial years, most Africans in the Thirteen Colonies were held under such contracts of indentured servitude. they were released after a contracted period with many of the indentured receiving land and equipment." If this is true, why weren't any black slave owners remaining later on?	3

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