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Why did the Nigerian Civil War (the Biafran War) have such a bizzare amount and combination of countries as belligerents for each side?	4025
Is there any historical record of how the driver of Archduke Franz Ferdinand felt after his driving mistake led to Ferdinand's assassination and an ensuing World War? How were he and his family treated by Bosnians and Austro-Hungarians?	314
Two separate sections of the Bible describe a male visitor(s) arriving to a town late at night, and being beseiged in a house by mob of rapists demanding to violate them, and the owners offering their own daughters instead. How often a problem was this in the Levant and would it play out like that?	200
How come some Biblical names (e.g. Daniel, David, Adam) have persisted to be popular baby names globally in the twenty-first century whereas names like Obadiah or Jebidiah are more stereotypically linked to rural American communities?	78
On May 1985, a Serbian farmer received serious injuries due to a glass bottle inserted in his anus. The Đorđe Martinović incident became a major factor to civil unrest in Yugoslavia. What were the public opinions about it, and did anyone consider that the farmer lied about how he got his injuries? NSFW	46
Considering the First World War (War) broke records of people killed (Death), was shortly followed by the Spanish flu (Plague), the Dust Bowl (Famine), did American Christians in 1930 believe they were in the end-times? What other eras could Christians have thought that the end was nigh?	23
Historically, how have the Uzbeks (a 96 percent Muslim population) reconciled making Tamerlane a cultural icon in spite of his actions at Baghdad and other Islamic cities that he sacked?	12
Is there historical evidence of any interaction between Africans and Native Americans before the Age of Exploration, or any influence of culture between the two peoples?	5
Given the current debate about Nick Cannon’s controversial comments about Jews and the comments about the matter saying that black people can’t be antiSemitic because they are the true Semites, is there any legitimacy to this theory? Where did this idea originate from and how did it get so popular?	2
We always hear about military experiment to create super-soldiers in science fiction. Historically, what were the most successful attempts to biologically enhance soldiers to wage better warfare?	1

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