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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?
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Are tsunamis accompanied by some kind of distinct acoustic signature while they approach a shoreline?
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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?
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How did the corporate world react to the buyout of electrical companies by Québec through its Policy of Nationalisation in 1963?
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Was Robert Fortune really as successfull as he claims in infiltrating chinese society incognito or was his passage actually noticed but greeted with indifference?
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The symptoms of heart attacks differs between men and women. But what about the transgendered? Is their set of symptoms the one of the sex they were born with, the one they transitioned to, or something else altogether?
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What do we know about how the Inca worked their wool into fabric? Did they use looms? Knitting needles? Crochet? Other methods?
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When listening to large amateur orchestral groups (ex: "school Chrismas pageant"), what happens in our brains when we single out individual dissonant players?
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