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Napoleon is currently venerated in France as a national hero. Since his death, has this always been the case? How was he perceived in France in the years following his defeat at Waterloo?

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We hear a lot about Japanese cruelty to civilians and prisoners in WW2. Was this culture of cruelty an anomaly or was it seen before in previous modern (eg. Russo-Japanese) or pre-modern wars in Japanese history?

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Before WW2, Singapore was considered a nearly unconquerable fortress, a "Gibraltar of the East". How then were the Japanese able to conquer it and the Malay peninsula so quickly and easily?

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In the slave owning ancient societies such as Rome, did any of them have any social movements for the abolition of slavery or at least efforts to improve the welfare of slaves?

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How did the Italian Mafia come to be so strongly associated with many Labor Unions?

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At what point in human history did slavery start being seen as something inherently "wrong"? What philosophical developments needed to occur?

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What is the ideological origin of the Wahhabi movement in Islam? More importantly, how has it risen to prominence?

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Stalin's purges were nominally done in order to clear the Soviet Union of "spies" and "traitors" to the socialist cause. Were there any true spies or traitors uncovered during the period?

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Who exactly were the Yamato people of Japan and how did they come to dominate the island?

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How similar is the modern Greek language with the Greek spoken in the Classical Period? Would they be able to understand each other?

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Napoleon is currently venerated in France as a national hero. Since his death, has this always been the case? How was he perceived in France in the years following his defeat at Waterloo?	944
We hear a lot about Japanese cruelty to civilians and prisoners in WW2. Was this culture of cruelty an anomaly or was it seen before in previous modern (eg. Russo-Japanese) or pre-modern wars in Japanese history?	306
Before WW2, Singapore was considered a nearly unconquerable fortress, a "Gibraltar of the East". How then were the Japanese able to conquer it and the Malay peninsula so quickly and easily?	188
In the slave owning ancient societies such as Rome, did any of them have any social movements for the abolition of slavery or at least efforts to improve the welfare of slaves?	169
How did the Italian Mafia come to be so strongly associated with many Labor Unions?	49
At what point in human history did slavery start being seen as something inherently "wrong"? What philosophical developments needed to occur?	36
What is the ideological origin of the Wahhabi movement in Islam? More importantly, how has it risen to prominence?	31
Stalin's purges were nominally done in order to clear the Soviet Union of "spies" and "traitors" to the socialist cause. Were there any true spies or traitors uncovered during the period?	26
Who exactly were the Yamato people of Japan and how did they come to dominate the island?	19
How similar is the modern Greek language with the Greek spoken in the Classical Period? Would they be able to understand each other?	14