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In Spain there has been many problems regarding Basque separatism, specially due to the terrorist movement ETA, did something similar happen in the French Basque country? Was any time throughout history an attempt to join the Spanish and French Basque countries?	314
How much rights did women had in the Soviet Union? Did they have the same rights as men? Did they had laws that guaranteed they wouldn't be discriminated at workplace? What about homosexuality? Was it legal?	38
How have countries like Liechtenstein, Monaco and Switzerland managed to have some of the highest GDP per capita of the world?	16
In the Spanish book El Lazarillo de Tormes a low-rank nobleman (hidalgo) is starving because he doesn't have any money and finds humiliating to work in his condition, did this actually happened in the 16th century?	11
At what point did fascism and nazism became universally condemned?	11
Today I have been at the Prado Museum in Madrid, seeing paintings from painters like Murillo, Rubens, Goya, Velazquez, Van Dyck etc, why there were so many paintings featuring dogs?	8
What do we know about the origin of the Grimm and Andersen? They were folk tales? Where were them from?	5
I am the 8 year old son of a woman condemn by witchcraft in the Salem trials, what's going to happen to me?	5
In the 80 years war France fought against Spain in alliance with Lutheran countries,even when they where catholic, this was due to their rivalry with Spain , but what was the reaction of the French church and the Vatican to France supporting Lutherans?	3
I have been reading catch - 22 and there is a scene in which a USA coronel says he is afraid of how well the war is going to the allies (is late WW2) because if the Germans surrendered they would have to go to the pacific to fight Japan, was that an actual fear between the USA military in WW2?	3

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