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How vulnerable were transoceanic cables to cutting in WWI and II?	9
Did the proliferation of affordable headphones have an effect on noise complaints and neighborly strife?	9
Are there any historical examples of different cultures' pantheons interacting in their stories?	9
What was contemporary Roman response to the loss of Pompeii in the rest of the empire? Were there theological debates about it? Or letters saying 'Oh did you hear? Pompeii's gone. How about that?" Is there any record of someone having the idea of digging out the city?	8
Were there any particular historical reasons for the amount of movies and such starting in the late 1970s and early 1980's that had 'Kids on bikes versus evil' as plots/aesthetics? Examples: E.T., Monster Squad, The Goonies, and later examples like Super 8, Stranger Things, Paper Girls.	8
How effective were aircraft in WW2 at anti-tank actions? In historically based video games like Il-2 Sturmovik, they are devastating. From some more casual sources though, they were 'meh' at best, only really good at attacking softer targets like trucks.	8
When I was taking my Soviet History classes in college, I learned that apparently the Soviet Union wasn't officially 'communist' but 'Communism was coming.' As in, it wasn't a worker's paradise yet, but with further work, it would be. Was this distinction ever noted outside the Soviet Union?	8
Have we ever found multiple shipwrecks from different eras on top of each other? Like a U-Boat on a Galleon?	7
What was the Sci-Fi film landscape like around the time of Star Wars: A New Hope in 1977? Was there a noticeable difference in Star Wars that made it stand out from the other films of that time?	6
How did the Allies conduct trade and diplomacy with countries surrounded by, or at least blocked the Axis? How would a diplomat get to and from Switzerland for instance?	6

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