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Why did Winston Churchill pressure the Queen into retaining the name Windsor, rather than taking on Mountbatten when she married Prince Philip?

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Stalin commissioned Soviet filmmaker, Sergei Eisenstein, to produce a biopic of Ivan the Terrible, whom Stalin admired and identified with. How does the film treat the character of Ivan the Terrible? And to what extent did Stalin influence his portrayal?

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I recently read that Soviet pay phones were vandalised to salvage parts for electric guitars. Is this true? What can you tell me about rock behind the iron curtain?

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To what extent (if any) did the extinction of the dodo in Mauritius shape the thinking of New Zealand authorities or conservationists with respect to their own flightless birds?

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The Russian word for Sunday (Voskreseniye) means "resurrection". During the Communist era, was there any attempt to change the name?

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I’ve read that the PRC played a major role in promoting use of simplified characters to encourage literacy. At the time, was there any consideration of moving to a phonetic letter based alphabet?

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Did the Catholic Church in Boston really condemn “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus”?

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How did an autocratic state like North Korea come to be named the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea? Was this overt propaganda or did Kim Il Sung have some alternative conception of democracy?

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Could enslaved people in the American South hold property? History of the lottery.

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There were hundreds of Aboriginal nations. Do we know whether any sought to expand their borders and develop an empire?

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Why did Winston Churchill pressure the Queen into retaining the name Windsor, rather than taking on Mountbatten when she married Prince Philip?	19
Stalin commissioned Soviet filmmaker, Sergei Eisenstein, to produce a biopic of Ivan the Terrible, whom Stalin admired and identified with. How does the film treat the character of Ivan the Terrible? And to what extent did Stalin influence his portrayal?	13
I recently read that Soviet pay phones were vandalised to salvage parts for electric guitars. Is this true? What can you tell me about rock behind the iron curtain?	12
To what extent (if any) did the extinction of the dodo in Mauritius shape the thinking of New Zealand authorities or conservationists with respect to their own flightless birds?	10
The Russian word for Sunday (Voskreseniye) means "resurrection". During the Communist era, was there any attempt to change the name?	9
I’ve read that the PRC played a major role in promoting use of simplified characters to encourage literacy. At the time, was there any consideration of moving to a phonetic letter based alphabet?	9
Did the Catholic Church in Boston really condemn “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus”?	4
How did an autocratic state like North Korea come to be named the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea? Was this overt propaganda or did Kim Il Sung have some alternative conception of democracy?	4
Could enslaved people in the American South hold property? History of the lottery.	4
There were hundreds of Aboriginal nations. Do we know whether any sought to expand their borders and develop an empire?	4