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Are the cells of, say, a fruit still alive when you pick it off the shelf and eat it?

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How would people be identified before the advent of photographs?

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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?

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Has the United States ever gotten into a direct military conflict with Russia where casualties were involved?

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How did Jim Jones manage to garnish so much positive press and direct praise from influential figures such as Harvey Milk and Jerry Brown?

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How are there large spotted cats in both Africa and South America? Did they evolve separately, or was there a common ancestor that crossed the Bering Strait?

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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?

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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?

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Why didn't the United States invade Cuba during Castros Revolution? It intervened in Korea and Vietnam, why not Cuba?

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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?

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Are the cells of, say, a fruit still alive when you pick it off the shelf and eat it?	20	askscience
How would people be identified before the advent of photographs?	19	AskHistorians
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	AskHistorians
Has the United States ever gotten into a direct military conflict with Russia where casualties were involved?	18	AskHistorians
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	AskHistorians
How are there large spotted cats in both Africa and South America? Did they evolve separately, or was there a common ancestor that crossed the Bering Strait?	12	askscience
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	AskHistorians
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	AskHistorians
Why didn't the United States invade Cuba during Castros Revolution? It intervened in Korea and Vietnam, why not Cuba?	7	AskHistorians
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	AskHistorians