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How did Lacrosse, originally a Native American sport, become so strongly associated with private schools and colleges in the US?

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How did Espresso, a style of coffee requiring complicated machinery become so popular in Italy compare to more simple methods of preparation like pour over etc?

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How do we know that Marcus Aurelius actually wrote The Meditations as his journal?

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When the Russians conquered the eastern part of their country, how did they maintain control over it considering its so big?

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How did Native American tribes living in wildfire prone areas of California survive the fires?

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What factors led to Rudy Giuliani, a Republican, becoming mayor of New York City?

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Did the Monks who created the Cyrillic alphabet know that some of their letters existed in Latin and had different sounds? If so, why did they choose to use these letters differently?

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What percent of military aged men in the US fought in World War II? What was US domestic life like while so many men were gone?

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What happened to the political prisoners in the Gulags when the Soviet Union Collapsed?

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How much administrative overhead did the US Military have in WWII vs Today?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
How did Lacrosse, originally a Native American sport, become so strongly associated with private schools and colleges in the US?	2495
How did Espresso, a style of coffee requiring complicated machinery become so popular in Italy compare to more simple methods of preparation like pour over etc?	147
How do we know that Marcus Aurelius actually wrote The Meditations as his journal?	132
When the Russians conquered the eastern part of their country, how did they maintain control over it considering its so big?	10
How did Native American tribes living in wildfire prone areas of California survive the fires?	9
What factors led to Rudy Giuliani, a Republican, becoming mayor of New York City?	9
Did the Monks who created the Cyrillic alphabet know that some of their letters existed in Latin and had different sounds? If so, why did they choose to use these letters differently?	9
What percent of military aged men in the US fought in World War II? What was US domestic life like while so many men were gone?	3
What happened to the political prisoners in the Gulags when the Soviet Union Collapsed?	2
How much administrative overhead did the US Military have in WWII vs Today?	1