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Did organised crime oppose ending prohibition? And if so what concrete measures did they take to preserve their black market monopoly on alcohol?	11
How did the corporate world react to the buyout of electrical companies by Québec through its Policy of Nationalisation in 1963?	11
Most modern texts on the history of Port claim that the notion of adding "wine spirits" to the precursor Portuguese wines came from how those wines initially didn't travel well. Are there any historical sources describing how much of a problem this was?	11
Was Robert Fortune really as successfull as he claims in infiltrating chinese society incognito or was his passage actually noticed but greeted with indifference?	10
What do we know about how the Inca worked their wool into fabric? Did they use looms? Knitting needles? Crochet? Other methods?	10
It seems that cheese was viewed as a base, vulgar and possibly unwholesome food during at least part of the Middle Ages. How did this attitude towards cheese come about, and how did it end?	9
When did use a printing press instead of hand drawn calligraphy become standard practice for the production of treaties.	9
Anthropologist Serge Bouffard claims that when Donnacona died in France around 1539, he might have been buried in a mass grave of american natives in Rue des Andouilles. Were there enough native americans dying in the street s of Paris in 1539 to warrant their own mass graves?	9
Why and how did the ancient Olympics cease? Are there any similarities with the shrinking list of countries interested in hosting the modern Olympics.	8
In precolumbian america, were chert and flint traded rough, already shaped into tools, or both?	8

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