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Egypt doesn't have Oil but does have a glut of monumental world class treasures more famous than any on Earth. Yet, inexplicably, the country has always remained 'borderline poor.' So was the previous Egyptian regime simply incompetent or indifferent about fully exploiting this unique 'resource?'
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Why has the Egypt always remained relatively poor considering the glut of world famous treasures at its disposal? Has its tourist industry, and the country as a whole, underperformed when compared to its European counterparts? Have any experts, advisors, strategists ever pointed this out?
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Which city was considered the 'Capital City' or 'Seat of Government' of the Venetian Republic? Venice the city on the Lagoon or was there instead a mainland city like Padua that held this role? And related to this question, which building/s were considered the seat of the Venetian 'Parliament'
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Was the ever any instance in Italian or European Catholicism when a painting created by an Artist came to be thought of as a holy relic having mystical qualities of its own?
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Does Western historians' near total ignorance and/or disregard for the Circassian Genocide prove that historical analysis will unfortunately always be prone to the subconscious cultural biases/preferences of the historian?
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How is the Double Slit Experiment even technically possible? Surely the presence of the OPTICAL SCREEN itself should cause Waveform Collapse every single time regardless of the experiment being measured/unmeasured by an observer?
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How is the Double Slit Experiment even technically possible? Surely the presence of the OPTICAL SCREEN itself should be enough to collapse the Waveform every single time and create 2 lines regardless slits being recorded or not...?
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How did fervent Christian Armenians who REJECTED a Turkish proposal of full autonomy within a post WW1 Turkish state end up quietly acquiescing to POSSIBLY AN EVEN WORSE OUTCOME administered by an Atheistic Russia without any Insurrection orRebellion..? Doesn't make any sense to me...
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"Just Like That" is a phrase that is, AFAIK, associated with Female foreplay, Sex and Porn. How did such a sexualised phrase become so popularized that it came to be used in everyday speech by young and old and for non-sexual things as well or am I totally mistaken about its origins?
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Considering that such a significant event as the 'Circassian Genocide' of 1.5m largely Muslim Caucasians at the hands of Tsarist Russia is unheard of in the West, can history ever be objectively discussed/relayed without historians falling into the trap of subconscious preferences/interests?
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