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In the 20th Century, Vietnam seems to have fostered a more cordial relationship with the Soviet Union in comparison to their antagonistic relationship with China. Did the historical animosity between Vietnam and China over the centuries impact how fraught the relationship between the two became?
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Ares/Mars and Athena/Minerva were both gods/personifications/embodiments of war and warfare in the religions of Ancient Greece and Rome; was there any difference in the way that Athena was portrayed, thought-about or worshipped in Greco-Roman mythology due to her gender?
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How do highly toxic substances such as formaldehyde and arsenic preserve human cadavers and animal specimens?
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What long-term effects did the McCarthyism of the late-‘40s and early-‘50s along with the infamous blacklisting of the Hollywood Ten have on Hollywood itself?
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Do the writings and translations of the Nineteenth Century adventurer and translator Richard Francis Burton hold up in terms of accuracy?
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Did the “Neolithic Revolution” and the adoption of ideas and technologies that anthropologists call the “Neolithic package” impact the peoples and cultures of the New World in any way? Or was it limited to just the Old World?
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In 1968, legislation was passed making it mandatory that each new vehicle sold in the United States have seat belts for its drivers and passengers. Did the implementation of this law have a noticeable effect on fatality rates in car accidents in the following years?
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How are the methodologies used by historians different from other related disciplines such as anthropology and archeology; and conversely, do those branches of science inform how historians do their own work?
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