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Why did Churchill intervene to save Coco Chanel from execution?

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Over perhaps a 25 year period of time, the inhabitants of Gilligan's Island survive and exist in the most unlikeliest of ways. What are some actual examples from history of shipwrecked groups actually surviving over a comparable length of time?

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What were the various hygiene practices before the invention of toilet paper, particularly in antiquity, and who actually invented this modern solution?

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TIL Lt. James Michener was posted to the South Pacific as a naval historian. What was the gist of such a policy?

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The British have a kind of reverence towards tea that is absent in the Americas, how did this come about?

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Why were Royal Epithets, even insulting ones, so common at one point in the Middle Ages, and even later, but fall out of use?

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Did the Slave States send their Cotton through Northern Ports for export?

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When did "Fuck" enter the English vocabulary?

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Great Masters who's paintings survived better than other?

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Have US Forces been ready at

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Why did Churchill intervene to save Coco Chanel from execution?	862
Over perhaps a 25 year period of time, the inhabitants of Gilligan's Island survive and exist in the most unlikeliest of ways. What are some actual examples from history of shipwrecked groups actually surviving over a comparable length of time?	125
What were the various hygiene practices before the invention of toilet paper, particularly in antiquity, and who actually invented this modern solution?	27
TIL Lt. James Michener was posted to the South Pacific as a naval historian. What was the gist of such a policy?	19
The British have a kind of reverence towards tea that is absent in the Americas, how did this come about?	10
Why were Royal Epithets, even insulting ones, so common at one point in the Middle Ages, and even later, but fall out of use?	5
Did the Slave States send their Cotton through Northern Ports for export?	4
When did "Fuck" enter the English vocabulary?	3
Great Masters who's paintings survived better than other?	2
Have US Forces been ready at	1