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Why did General MacArthur ban an all-Japanese cast from performing The Mikado in 1947, and what was the further history of the operetta in Japan?	1
Early in 1917, British cash was exhausted in America. Did unrestricted submarine warfare save Britain from defeat?	1
Was there any pushback or even attacks (à la the Luddites) against the widespread introduction of the automobile to protect businesses / industries that were threatened (e.g., blacksmiths, horse cart drivers)	1
When the East India Company and later the British Empire ruled over India, how did the day-to-day life of the average Indian change in the 18th-19th centuries?	1
Theresienstadt in Wachsmann's book on the Nazi KL system is referred as a ghetto that shares characteristics with a camp, but calling it a KL is a mistake. USHMM describes it as a hybrid "camp-ghetto". What is the most accurate way to talk about it, as a ghetto, a camp, or a hybrid?	1
How much of partisan commander's actions in WWII was organic and built off the geography and facts on the ground, and how much was based off prior readings of histories and theories on resistance against occupying armies?	1
The idea that the Union generals in the Western theater were generally incompetent - did these generals feel that way about themselves, during or after the war? When people talk about them, they often are the butt of jokes - were they really that comically bad?	1
Did militant feminism in the first wave (advocated by Emmeline Pankhurst and others) bring pressure to society to change, or were they more counter-productive and not as effective as peaceful means?	0
Why does there appear to be a dearth of media that details the Spanish Flu epidemic? WWI and the Roaring 20s seem much more popular topics than this pandemic. Was it just forgotten? Or repressed socially?	0
Elizabethan Theatre and Chinese Opera used only male actors for female roles. What ended these traditions, and how similar were cultural or prejudicial attitudes to the idea of bringing women onto the stage	0

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