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Why was the Nazi Intelligence Service (including their military arms) so awful in WWII in comparison to their Polish, British, American, etc. contemporaries?	34
There was a major kerfuffle over state boundaries when Texas was asking for admittance to the United States. How are these state boundaries (such as for disproportionately large states like Texas and CA) drawn/determined/negotiated, and what factors were considered when determining the final border?	21
Why did WWII aircraft carriers lack the angled decks now found in every modern carrier, and why were such carriers not designed and built during the war?	14
What led to the decision of many high commands to not withdraw damaged/depleted units from the front to use them as cadres for new units in the First and Second World Wars?	9
Rise and Fall of Labor Unions	8
How was cryptography and information warfare used during the American Civil War?	6
Was reading about the internal racial tensions in the Austro-Hungarian Empire prior to WWI, and it got me to thinking: why did similar issues in the United States of America not tear it apart like they would to the Austro-Hungarian Empire?	2
How was the British abolition movement viewed in the United States by contemporary slaveholders and the nascent American abolition movement?	1
Methodologically, how do historians determine the public mood, general culture, general public opinion, et cetera of times prior to the advent of accurate public polling and widespread literacy (and hence a greater availability of primary sources)?	1

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