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Did bosses really just... Go to their employees' for supper in 1950s America, like in sitcoms?

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East Asia has many schools of unarmed martial arts, which do not exist the same way in Europe. Why is this?

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Is Y. pestis firmly accepted as the cause of the Black Death?

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Forty or fifty years down the line, is the deinstitutionalisation movement (inspired by Foucault) viewed as largely a positive or negative step in the treatment of the mentally ill?

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Why did the international community support the Khmer-Rouge-led government despite the Genocide, rather than the People's Republic?

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Why would hangmen err on the side of a short drop?

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Was Stalin's Great Purge "necessary"?

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Is Miklos Nyiszli's "A Doctor's Eyewitness Account" considered an accurate perspective on Auschwitz?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Did bosses really just... Go to their employees' for supper in 1950s America, like in sitcoms?	143
East Asia has many schools of unarmed martial arts, which do not exist the same way in Europe. Why is this?	61
Is Y. pestis firmly accepted as the cause of the Black Death?	5
Forty or fifty years down the line, is the deinstitutionalisation movement (inspired by Foucault) viewed as largely a positive or negative step in the treatment of the mentally ill?	3
Why did the international community support the Khmer-Rouge-led government despite the Genocide, rather than the People's Republic?	3
Why would hangmen err on the side of a short drop?	2
Was Stalin's Great Purge "necessary"?	1
Is Miklos Nyiszli's "A Doctor's Eyewitness Account" considered an accurate perspective on Auschwitz?	1