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The top-selling single of 1966 did not belong to Bob Dylan, The Beatles, or Simon & Garfunkel, but to Barry Sadler, whose “Ballad of the Green Berets” sold more than 9 million copies. How did that happen?!

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How did colonized people perceive the technological gap between them and the European colonizers?

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I am a 20-year old British labourer in London on the 4th of August 1914. On the declaration of war on Germany, I abandon my job and rush down to the Army enlistment office. What will my experience be until I reach the battlefield?

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Von Moltke was sent to cadet school at age 12, Napoleon at age 11. Was this considered normal, and if so how did these cadet schools work?

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Why was Leon Trotsky so talented in military affairs despite never undergoing any military training?

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After WWI, 170 German POWs who were captured by the Japanese after the Siege of Tsingtao decided to remain in Japan. What happened to them?

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Is there an equivalent field of study in China that studies the West, in the same way Sinology is a thing in the West?

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What did portrait painters think about the emergence of photography? How were they affected by it in the short and long run?

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What was the role of decadence in the fall of the Roman Empire?

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When did commanders stop fighting in the front line?

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The top-selling single of 1966 did not belong to Bob Dylan, The Beatles, or Simon & Garfunkel, but to Barry Sadler, whose “Ballad of the Green Berets” sold more than 9 million copies. How did that happen?!	488
How did colonized people perceive the technological gap between them and the European colonizers?	45
I am a 20-year old British labourer in London on the 4th of August 1914. On the declaration of war on Germany, I abandon my job and rush down to the Army enlistment office. What will my experience be until I reach the battlefield?	41
Von Moltke was sent to cadet school at age 12, Napoleon at age 11. Was this considered normal, and if so how did these cadet schools work?	23
Why was Leon Trotsky so talented in military affairs despite never undergoing any military training?	21
After WWI, 170 German POWs who were captured by the Japanese after the Siege of Tsingtao decided to remain in Japan. What happened to them?	21
Is there an equivalent field of study in China that studies the West, in the same way Sinology is a thing in the West?	19
What did portrait painters think about the emergence of photography? How were they affected by it in the short and long run?	17
What was the role of decadence in the fall of the Roman Empire?	14
When did commanders stop fighting in the front line?	12