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Konrad Adenauer, Walter Ulbricht, and David Ben-Gurion respectively led West Germany, East Germany, and Israel for many years in the immediate postwar period. What was the personal relationship like amongst the three of them?

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

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

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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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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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Konrad Adenauer, Walter Ulbricht, and David Ben-Gurion respectively led West Germany, East Germany, and Israel for many years in the immediate postwar period. What was the personal relationship like amongst the three of them?	10	AskHistorians
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	AskHistorians
Do we have any surviving written standup comedy routines before the modern world?	10	AskHistorians
Why is England so much more populous than the other countries in the UK?	9	AskHistorians
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	AskHistorians
What would Walt Whitman’s “Learn’d Astronomer” actually know about the stars?	8	AskHistorians
Who are really legitimate popular history authors who are well-regarded among historians?	8	AskHistorians
What’s the academic consensus behind the involvement of the CIA in the death of Indian nuclear physicist Homi J. Bhabha?	7	AskHistorians
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	AskHistorians
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	AskHistorians