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What are the earliest lawsuits for which we have good records?

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Did the Panama Canal actually leave Panama poorer, by making trans-isthmus trade cheap and efficient enough that Panamanians couldn't make a living from it?

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To what extent do the devastating Paraguayan losses in the War of the Triple Alliance indicate incredible Paraguayan willingness to fight to the bitter end, and to what extent do they indicate allied atrocities against unarmed/unresisting civilians?

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Was there something particularly bad about history written in the Victorian period or has it just been superseded?

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Ancient/Medieval Hindu militaries, and the role the kshatriya varna and its jatis

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How did the Roman people react to Hadrian spamming the empire with Antinous beefcake?

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What's the relationship between the avowed principles of the Pre-Raphaelite movement and the actual art they produced?

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Why were peasant revolts so successful in China compared to most of the rest of Eurasia?

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Could the Western European marriage pattern/Hajnal line account for lack of urbanization of Europe in the middle ages compared to Islamic world, China, etc?

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Did extreme fasting in Sramana ascetic practices (e.g., Jainism) historically have a gendered skew, like the feminine skew of Medieval anorexia mirabilis or modern anorexia nervosa?

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What are the earliest lawsuits for which we have good records?	8
Did the Panama Canal actually leave Panama poorer, by making trans-isthmus trade cheap and efficient enough that Panamanians couldn't make a living from it?	8
To what extent do the devastating Paraguayan losses in the War of the Triple Alliance indicate incredible Paraguayan willingness to fight to the bitter end, and to what extent do they indicate allied atrocities against unarmed/unresisting civilians?	8
Was there something particularly bad about history written in the Victorian period or has it just been superseded?	7
Ancient/Medieval Hindu militaries, and the role the kshatriya varna and its jatis	7
How did the Roman people react to Hadrian spamming the empire with Antinous beefcake?	7
What's the relationship between the avowed principles of the Pre-Raphaelite movement and the actual art they produced?	7
Why were peasant revolts so successful in China compared to most of the rest of Eurasia?	7
Could the Western European marriage pattern/Hajnal line account for lack of urbanization of Europe in the middle ages compared to Islamic world, China, etc?	6
Did extreme fasting in Sramana ascetic practices (e.g., Jainism) historically have a gendered skew, like the feminine skew of Medieval anorexia mirabilis or modern anorexia nervosa?	6