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Have there ever been two countries or cultures that had the same name by coincidence?

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During the Reformation, what factors made a country/ruler more likely to become Protestant?

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How did WWII affect French colonies in southeast Asia and the Pacific?

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Aside from kings whose descendants still rule (and conquerors like Genghis Khan whose genomes were distributed particularly widely) are there any people known to be descended from notable historical figures?

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I am a person of color who wants to immigrate to the United States. It's the turn of the 20th century and I am not Chinese (though I may or may not be from somewhere in Asia.) Do similar legal obstacles to the Chinese Exclusion Act exist for me?

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Before the discovery of the Bering land bridge, how did people think the Native Americans came to the Americas?

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What, if any, sorts of board or card games might it have been socially acceptable for a young woman to play in 19th century America or Britain?

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How did the Nazi occupation of France affect her overseas colonies? And did Japanese expansionism affect the ones in Asia and the Pacific?

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How do historians estimate the number of people that died in a war/famine/plague/natural disaster that happened before modern record-keeping?

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Where and when did the idea of same-sex marriage begin? Is it strictly an idea of the 20th and 21st centuries, or was anyone seriously discussing the idea, even privately, before then?

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Have there ever been two countries or cultures that had the same name by coincidence?	3
During the Reformation, what factors made a country/ruler more likely to become Protestant?	3
How did WWII affect French colonies in southeast Asia and the Pacific?	2
Aside from kings whose descendants still rule (and conquerors like Genghis Khan whose genomes were distributed particularly widely) are there any people known to be descended from notable historical figures?	2
I am a person of color who wants to immigrate to the United States. It's the turn of the 20th century and I am not Chinese (though I may or may not be from somewhere in Asia.) Do similar legal obstacles to the Chinese Exclusion Act exist for me?	2
Before the discovery of the Bering land bridge, how did people think the Native Americans came to the Americas?	2
What, if any, sorts of board or card games might it have been socially acceptable for a young woman to play in 19th century America or Britain?	2
How did the Nazi occupation of France affect her overseas colonies? And did Japanese expansionism affect the ones in Asia and the Pacific?	2
How do historians estimate the number of people that died in a war/famine/plague/natural disaster that happened before modern record-keeping?	2
Where and when did the idea of same-sex marriage begin? Is it strictly an idea of the 20th and 21st centuries, or was anyone seriously discussing the idea, even privately, before then?	1