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The American Army suffered about fifty thousand casualties in the Vietnam war, while the North Vietnamese and their allies suffered about a million. What caused this massive disparity in casualty numbers? How did the Americans have such a massive K/D ratio?

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Why is Benjamin Disraeli such an important British prime minister? What is the consensus on his legacy? What exactly did he do right (or wrong) when in office?

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Was the Chernobyl Accident relevant in any way to the collapse of the Soviet Union?

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Why didn't NATO defend the United Kingdom after Argentina invaded the Falklands?

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According to The Economist, "she (Maryam Mirzakhani) had to explain that in her native Iran women’s education and careers were not just tolerated but encouraged". What is the historical context behind the fundamentalist Iranian government permitting women to attain higher education and careers?

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Why was the Soviet Union better than the West at spying?

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Why did the Treaty of Versailles explicitly prohibit a union between Germany and Austria? Wasn't self-determination adamantly pushed by Wilson into the treaty?

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What economic conditions made Sicily the origin of many of the Italian immigrants that came to America in the late XIXth Century? Why was this area specially poor and why did Italian unification worsen their condition?

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Where there any actual plans to dismember Germany into small states after WW1 or WW2?

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Is there any merit to the theory that the USSR was preparing to attack Germany before Barbarossa?

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The American Army suffered about fifty thousand casualties in the Vietnam war, while the North Vietnamese and their allies suffered about a million. What caused this massive disparity in casualty numbers? How did the Americans have such a massive K/D ratio?	32
Why is Benjamin Disraeli such an important British prime minister? What is the consensus on his legacy? What exactly did he do right (or wrong) when in office?	28
Was the Chernobyl Accident relevant in any way to the collapse of the Soviet Union?	27
Why didn't NATO defend the United Kingdom after Argentina invaded the Falklands?	19
According to The Economist, "she (Maryam Mirzakhani) had to explain that in her native Iran women’s education and careers were not just tolerated but encouraged". What is the historical context behind the fundamentalist Iranian government permitting women to attain higher education and careers?	19
Why was the Soviet Union better than the West at spying?	17
Why did the Treaty of Versailles explicitly prohibit a union between Germany and Austria? Wasn't self-determination adamantly pushed by Wilson into the treaty?	16
What economic conditions made Sicily the origin of many of the Italian immigrants that came to America in the late XIXth Century? Why was this area specially poor and why did Italian unification worsen their condition?	16
Where there any actual plans to dismember Germany into small states after WW1 or WW2?	13
Is there any merit to the theory that the USSR was preparing to attack Germany before Barbarossa?	13