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What is so special about Frederick I Barbarossa and Frederick II of the Holy Roman Empire that those two are commonly seen as the two greatest HRE emperors of all time?	99
Why is Romania an isolated Latin/Romance language speaking country in a sea of Slavic language speaking countries?	94
A common belief about WW2 is that Germany was ill advised building the Tiger I and Tiger II heavy tanks and instead should have produced more Panthers or even just simple Panzer IVs and StuG IIIs, but how true is that? How useful or useless were the heavy German tanks really?	84
What exactly did Fascist Portugal's (also known as the "Estado Novo") "Corporstist" economic system look like in theory and practice? What effects did this have on the economy and society as a whole?	82
Did Nazi Germany's investment into it's navy pay off? Did it sink and disrupt enough, and cause a big enough diversion of Allied war efforts, to make up for the huge investment required for it? Did it tie up more Allied resources than it itself required in build and upkeep costs?	74
The Soviet Union employed female soldiers in a variety of combat roles during WW2. Yet as far as I know they did not employ them as normal infantry. Why is that? And why was the Soviet Union the only country in the war to employ female soldiers, when other countries were also starved for manpower?	74
Why did Wallachia and Moldavia unite into one, unified state of Romania? Are they both sub-cultures of a greater Romanian culture, like how Bavarians and Saxons are both sub-cultures of a greater German culture? And why is Moldavia independent again?	72
An article states that Medieval Ireland had no cities and no coinage. Is this true? What did the economy look like then? I find it hard to grasp what an economy without cities would look like. Besides, were all those small Irish kingdoms composed entirely of castles and villages then?	71
'The Goonies', 'Stand By Me', 'E.T.', 'TKKG' (from Germany), 'The Three Investigators': What's up with the popularity of media, depicting a group of kids solving mysteries and crimes, during the 1980s?	68
To what extent are youtube videos a valid source of information for people interested in history like me? To what extent can one use that information in simple discussions between "amateurs"?	63

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