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In the 16-1800's, Chinese demand for silver fueled a global trade that consumed much of the silver found in South America. Where is all that silver now?
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In Disney's "Moana," the villagers sing "We share everything we make, we joke and we weave our baskets..."
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In 'The Guns Of August', Barbara Tuchman states the following regarding the assassination of Pyotr Stolypin: "When another premier, Stolypin, was assassinated in 1911 the perpetrators were discovered to be the secret police acting as agents provocateurs to discredit the revolutionists."
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Are the "Barbarian Migrations" of the late Roman Empire best understood as a movement of a distinct people group supplanting existing populations, or a cultural shift whereby the children of former Romans now identified as Visigothic, Frankish, or Vandal?
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I've heard that the discovery of gold and silver in Spanish South America hurt Spain's domestic economy by making imports cheaper. Did the United States face similar problems after the California Gold Rush?
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Are there any ideological connections between the European nationalist movements of 1848 and the American Confederacy & Civil War?
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In one of the opening songs in Disney's "Moana", the villagers sing: "We share everything we make, we joke and we weave our baskets."
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Has the advent of modern genetic testing produced any surprises or introduced mysteries around historical figures or royal families?
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