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I am the child of an isolated pioneer family who settles a new homestead in the Rockies, and my mother dies in childbirth. How would my father find me breast milk? If I'm a girl, how does he teach me feminine hygiene when I go through puberty?

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Do we have any surviving written standup comedy routines before the modern world?

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Why is England so much more populous than the other countries in the UK?

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How many men did Union armies lose when many three-year enlistments expired in June/July 1864? How are those who went back home regarded by those who re-enlisted?

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Who are really legitimate popular history authors who are well-regarded among historians?

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What would Walt Whitman’s “Learn’d Astronomer” actually know about the stars?

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An extremely large fertilizer plant explosion in Oppau, Germany in 1921 was heard more than 300 kilometers away. Are there contemporary accounts of this explosion triggering the PTSD of large numbers of WWI veterans?

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In 1975, did foreign policy experts see the nearly contemporaneous falls of South Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos as validation of domino theory? If so, what led them to re-evaluate it to its present marginalized status in academia?

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What’s the academic consensus behind the involvement of the CIA in the death of Indian nuclear physicist Homi J. Bhabha?

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Why did steppe nomads bother coming up with flimsy pretexts for their invasions/excursions in a pre-globalized world? Who were they justifying themselves to?

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I am the child of an isolated pioneer family who settles a new homestead in the Rockies, and my mother dies in childbirth. How would my father find me breast milk? If I'm a girl, how does he teach me feminine hygiene when I go through puberty?	10
Do we have any surviving written standup comedy routines before the modern world?	10
Why is England so much more populous than the other countries in the UK?	9
How many men did Union armies lose when many three-year enlistments expired in June/July 1864? How are those who went back home regarded by those who re-enlisted?	8
Who are really legitimate popular history authors who are well-regarded among historians?	8
What would Walt Whitman’s “Learn’d Astronomer” actually know about the stars?	8
An extremely large fertilizer plant explosion in Oppau, Germany in 1921 was heard more than 300 kilometers away. Are there contemporary accounts of this explosion triggering the PTSD of large numbers of WWI veterans?	7
In 1975, did foreign policy experts see the nearly contemporaneous falls of South Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos as validation of domino theory? If so, what led them to re-evaluate it to its present marginalized status in academia?	7
What’s the academic consensus behind the involvement of the CIA in the death of Indian nuclear physicist Homi J. Bhabha?	7
Why did steppe nomads bother coming up with flimsy pretexts for their invasions/excursions in a pre-globalized world? Who were they justifying themselves to?	7