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What exactly happened when President Reagan fired all the striking air traffic controllers? How were they replaced? Was air safety compromised?	1223
Is it true, as this article states, that Patton held anti-Semitic views and while running the Displaced Persons camps in southern Germany, treated Holocaust survivors "little better than the Nazis did," leading to a strong rebuke from Truman?	628
What were the contingency plans for Churchill's safety if the Germans successfully invaded England? Was he planning to flee to somewhere in the Commonwealth and set up a government in exile or make a last stand in his bunker like Hitler?	429
Jews were expelled and banned from England in 1290 by Edward I until Cromwell began to readmit them in 1655. Given medieval era Jews' roles as lenders and merchant bankers did their 366 year absence have any noticeable affect on the English economy?	382
Donald Trump was on CNN and said that General Pershing had a problem with Islamic terrorists in the Philippines in 1919 and that he handled in a very brutal way. What is he talking about?	347
Did the Soviet Union have their own version of a Marshall plan for Eastern Europe following WWII?	260
If I live in San Francisco during the 1860's how is my life affected by the Civil War? Could I be drafted into the Union Army? Is there an active secessionist/copperhead movement for me to join? If I'm a merchant how is my business affected? Are army deserters turing up daily?	171
Why wasn't De Gaulle included in those famous pictures we see of the Allied leaders at the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences? Does this absence provide any foreshadowing of France's post war relations with these nations?	136
When I was a kid cartoons often depicted peeling potatoes as a punishment in the military. Was this pop culture image rooted in reality?	120
Why was the cubicle developed and how did it change office/work culture in he US?	113

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