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Would interpretation of Egyptian hieroglyphs be at all possible without the Rosetta stone?

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WhenJFK made his "Moon Speech" in 1962, he said that "We choose to go to the moon in this decade". At the time he said it, was his claim that the USA would reach the moon in a decade simple rhetoric or did his claim actually seem feasible among experts at the time?

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What is the historical basis of Japan and China's mutual and conflicting claims over the Daiyu/Senkaku Islands?

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During the Cold War, how much international cooperation was there in non-military fields of research (eg. medicine, geology, civil engineering as examples)

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What is the historical basis of Japan and China's mutual and conflicting claims over the Daiyu/Senkaku Islands?

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What are examples of languages which have undergone revivals only in the last two centuries?

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The Chinese Movie "Hero" makes the implicit claim that Qin Shi Huang Di, China's "First Emperor" is the reason for, or at least laid the foundations of the modern Chinese state as "one nation". How true is this claim?

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In European/American culture, has abortion always historically been considered a "criminal" or "moral"? When and why did this change occur?

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Would interpretation of Egyptian hieroglyphs be at all possible without the Rosetta stone?	10
WhenJFK made his "Moon Speech" in 1962, he said that "We choose to go to the moon in this decade". At the time he said it, was his claim that the USA would reach the moon in a decade simple rhetoric or did his claim actually seem feasible among experts at the time?	9
What is the historical basis of Japan and China's mutual and conflicting claims over the Daiyu/Senkaku Islands?	5
During the Cold War, how much international cooperation was there in non-military fields of research (eg. medicine, geology, civil engineering as examples)	4
What is the historical basis of Japan and China's mutual and conflicting claims over the Daiyu/Senkaku Islands?	3
What are examples of languages which have undergone revivals only in the last two centuries?	2
The Chinese Movie "Hero" makes the implicit claim that Qin Shi Huang Di, China's "First Emperor" is the reason for, or at least laid the foundations of the modern Chinese state as "one nation". How true is this claim?	1
In European/American culture, has abortion always historically been considered a "criminal" or "moral"? When and why did this change occur?	0