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To what extent did British policies contribute to famines in India during the Raj?	18
META: Help finding an old AskHistorians answer about the reality of belief in ancient gods	18
From 1971-2012, all 8 NATO Deputy Secretaries General were Italian. Why?	18
After not awarding prizes from 1940-42 due to WWII, the Royal Swedish Academy gave the Nobel Prizes in Physics from 1943-45 to three European-born Jewish scientists working in the United States. Did this cause them any issues with Nazi Germany, or lead to political ramifications in general?	16
Did the experience of serving together in WWII helped lessen distinctions and tension between "Old Stock" Americans and "white ethnic" Americans (Italians, Poles, Slavs, Jews, Portuguese)?	16
After George H.W. Bush lost his re-election campaign in 1992, was there any serious consideration given to him running again in 1996?	13
What was the experience of Chinese-American and Korean-American soldiers in the Korean War like?	12
WWII ended in 1945, but the Berlin airlift did not occur until 1948 and NATO was not established until 1949. What happened in those four years? When did the West and the Soviet bloc begin thinking of themselves as in a "Cold War", and were there people who tried to stop it from happening entirely?	11
In his book '1491', Charles Mann writes that before epidemics struck, "a rising proportion of the shipping traffic along the [1600s] New England coast was of indigenous origin." Where did he get that information, and what research has been done on this topic since '1491' was published in 2005?	11
15 years on, what does Lawrence Wright's 2006 book 'The Looming Tower' get right and wrong about al-Qaeda and 9/11?	7

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