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When was the US military first integrated by state/region and what effect, if any, did this have on the both the military and American culture when soldiers returned home?	7
If Arab and Middle Eastern countries did not recognize or support the state of Isreal, why did they allow much of their Jewish populations to emirgrate there from the late 40's to early 70's?	6
Did the IRA have or accept non-Irish members?	5
I'm a French spy without an official cover stationed in Nazi Germany for the past year and France has just fallen. What are my options? What is my best chance for survival? How can I be of any more use to the Allied cause?	5
Julius Streicher's wikipedia page states "Streicher's excesses brought condemnation even from other Nazis. Streicher's behaviour was viewed as so irresponsible that he alienated much of the party leadership." What exactly did one have to do considered excessive by the likes of Himmler and Goering?	5
What was the state of race relations between black and white soldiers within companies and platoons during the Vietnam War?	5
Many works of fiction have depicted Edgar Allen Poe as sharing traits with the unsavory characters of his own literary works. Is this is based on factual accounts or it is based on modern sensationalism and character assassination by his contemporaries?	5
World War II historians, why do we know next to nothing about Operation Clausewitz? With all the records and interviews collected after the war how can it still be such a mystery? Are there any other lingering mysteries in that field of study?	5
Where did the tradition of wearing class rings after graduating high school and college come from?	4
Did the papacy have any real temporal power beyond the Papal States left when Napolean captured Pius VI in 1798?	4

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