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When did barstools coming into being?

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Post WWII, how did America's political establishment view Douglas MacArthur land reform policies in Japan, which redressed significant land ownership disparities of farmland?

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How effective in combat was archery in its capacity to have a mortar-like effect, firing over castle walls, for instances?

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During the great naval battles between Britain and France in the 1600-1800s, why were the French so wedded to the idea that firing canon shot into enemy sails was the best way to victory?

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During the Revolutionary War, were there any notable escapes from the British prison ships used to house captured American soldiers?

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Before the 1900s, in America's more violent days, street fights, how did customs in different parts of the nation arise regarding use of guns, knifes, and fists?

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Which slave holding nations or cultures were notable for determining the ideal ratio of free time to give slaves to care for their own sustenance? Are there specifics on what that time ratio was? How was that viewed in context of slave-owning history?

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What was the mood like in America the week before the Volstead Act went into effect on January 17, 1920?

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In the period approximately 1000 to 1800, to what extent did people on northern Mediterranean coasts site their villages inland to avoiding raiding?

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If the whites in California had not been so hostile to immigrants from China in the 1840s and 1850s, what level of Chinese immigration might America have seen?

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When did barstools coming into being?	15
Post WWII, how did America's political establishment view Douglas MacArthur land reform policies in Japan, which redressed significant land ownership disparities of farmland?	14
How effective in combat was archery in its capacity to have a mortar-like effect, firing over castle walls, for instances?	10
During the great naval battles between Britain and France in the 1600-1800s, why were the French so wedded to the idea that firing canon shot into enemy sails was the best way to victory?	5
During the Revolutionary War, were there any notable escapes from the British prison ships used to house captured American soldiers?	5
Before the 1900s, in America's more violent days, street fights, how did customs in different parts of the nation arise regarding use of guns, knifes, and fists?	3
Which slave holding nations or cultures were notable for determining the ideal ratio of free time to give slaves to care for their own sustenance? Are there specifics on what that time ratio was? How was that viewed in context of slave-owning history?	3
What was the mood like in America the week before the Volstead Act went into effect on January 17, 1920?	3
In the period approximately 1000 to 1800, to what extent did people on northern Mediterranean coasts site their villages inland to avoiding raiding?	2
If the whites in California had not been so hostile to immigrants from China in the 1840s and 1850s, what level of Chinese immigration might America have seen?	2