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I'm a Chinese person in the 90's, the economy is booming, Communist party connections are (presumably) great to have, but there are eight "minor parties" with no real power. Why would I join one of these? What would it get me?

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Were Gladiator games profitable?

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According to his 1865 Confessions, Karl Marx's greatest aversion was Martin Tupper, a poet? What did Marx have against this guy?

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How did perceptions of the Haitian Revolution influence the antebellum South?

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Why did British India receive a seat at the United Nations in 1945? Wasn't it already represented by the British Empire? And what is the history of colonies receiving seats at the UN?

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I'm an academic in 1900. Do I actually believe all the theories about race? Is there a consensus or a controversy around it? Or is it not taken seriously at all?

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Why was the Shining Path militant organisation of Peru so effective in it's insurgency in the nineties? I get the impression that it didn't have widespread popular support and resembled a cult in some ways, but it seems to have take control of much of the country at one point.

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I'm an educated, upper class man living in the Roman Empire around the time Jesus was born, and I want to know what lies beyond the borders of the Empire. How much do I know about the lands of the barbarians? Do I know more about the East than, say, the far north of Europe, or sub-Saharan Africa?

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Where did our stereotypical image of a bomb - 💣 - come from?

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Why was Queensland the most populated part of pre-contact Australia?

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I'm a Chinese person in the 90's, the economy is booming, Communist party connections are (presumably) great to have, but there are eight "minor parties" with no real power. Why would I join one of these? What would it get me?	104
Were Gladiator games profitable?	80
According to his 1865 Confessions, Karl Marx's greatest aversion was Martin Tupper, a poet? What did Marx have against this guy?	67
How did perceptions of the Haitian Revolution influence the antebellum South?	62
Why did British India receive a seat at the United Nations in 1945? Wasn't it already represented by the British Empire? And what is the history of colonies receiving seats at the UN?	58
I'm an academic in 1900. Do I actually believe all the theories about race? Is there a consensus or a controversy around it? Or is it not taken seriously at all?	57
Why was the Shining Path militant organisation of Peru so effective in it's insurgency in the nineties? I get the impression that it didn't have widespread popular support and resembled a cult in some ways, but it seems to have take control of much of the country at one point.	56
I'm an educated, upper class man living in the Roman Empire around the time Jesus was born, and I want to know what lies beyond the borders of the Empire. How much do I know about the lands of the barbarians? Do I know more about the East than, say, the far north of Europe, or sub-Saharan Africa?	52
Where did our stereotypical image of a bomb - 💣 - come from?	45
Why was Queensland the most populated part of pre-contact Australia?	43