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How powerful were Soviet computers? What programming languages did they use?

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After divorcing or beheading 80% of his wives at that point, what did Henry VIII's last wife expect to happen to her?

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There are several thousand Welsh speakers in Patagonia. How did they end up in Argentina?

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Churchill's plan for Hitler was the electric chair, what punishment did Stalin have planned?

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As a native English speaker, I cannot understand English from 1000 years ago. Would a Roman living through the fall of Rome have been able to understand the Latin of the early Republic 1000 years earlier?

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After WW2 the UK government sold Enigma machines to other countries, knowing that it could be broken. Which countries did they sell them to and why did they not spot an obvious trap?

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How did the South American nations become separate countries given that they were mostly a part of the Spanish Empire?

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I once read that Hitler did not want Spain to join the second world war because he thought Franco was incompetent. Is this true and what examples of his incompetence are there?

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In 1828 Andrew Jackson accused John Quincy Adams of offering his maid to the Russian Tsar as a concubine, and Adams called Jackson a jackass. Is there any truth in the first story, and how were they reported in newspapers at the time?

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Did any European settlers die from Native American illnesses which they did not have immunity from?

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How powerful were Soviet computers? What programming languages did they use?	1518
After divorcing or beheading 80% of his wives at that point, what did Henry VIII's last wife expect to happen to her?	426
There are several thousand Welsh speakers in Patagonia. How did they end up in Argentina?	254
Churchill's plan for Hitler was the electric chair, what punishment did Stalin have planned?	217
As a native English speaker, I cannot understand English from 1000 years ago. Would a Roman living through the fall of Rome have been able to understand the Latin of the early Republic 1000 years earlier?	190
After WW2 the UK government sold Enigma machines to other countries, knowing that it could be broken. Which countries did they sell them to and why did they not spot an obvious trap?	165
How did the South American nations become separate countries given that they were mostly a part of the Spanish Empire?	76
I once read that Hitler did not want Spain to join the second world war because he thought Franco was incompetent. Is this true and what examples of his incompetence are there?	67
In 1828 Andrew Jackson accused John Quincy Adams of offering his maid to the Russian Tsar as a concubine, and Adams called Jackson a jackass. Is there any truth in the first story, and how were they reported in newspapers at the time?	22
Did any European settlers die from Native American illnesses which they did not have immunity from?	19