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How where the lives of single British women in the Interwar Period affected by the large number of male casualties during WWI? Was the effect more pronounced on the upper or working class women?	110
US Supreme Court Justice Henry Baldwin died in office on April 21, 1844. Why did it take more than two years to appoint a replacement?	82
Did any Soviet leaders consider overthrowing and arresting Stalin when he was caught unprepared for Germany's invasion of Russia?	80
Was there any truth to the rumors that during their election campaigns Nixon and Reagan contacted North Vietnam and Iran (respectively) while their opponents administrations were engaging in diplomacy? Was there any type of investigation or fallout?	76
With estimates as high as 1,000,000 people killed, why was the Partition of India so violent?	50
I head Doris Kearns Goodwin say that when Lincoln was assassinated the South lost it's greatest friend. She went on to say it was likely he would have restrained the radical Republicans during reconstruction. Does this conform to what we know of Lincoln's philosophy?	36
How exactly was the Magna Carta written? Was the process similar to that of the Constitution of United States?	28
I came across a page in The Histories by Herodotus describing how Athens and Sparta threw heralds sent by Darius into "The Pit" and a well respectively. How dangerous was it to be a diplomat in the ancient world? Additionally when did diplomats become a protected class as in modern times?	27
My mother once told me that there was a time (before at least the 1980's) when people did not use the word "Cancer" when discussing the disease. What was the reason for this taboo in the US?	25
What factors helped determine whether a European country would convert to Protestantism or remain Catholic during/after the Reformation?	23

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