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Why does India not have a sizeable Buddhist population despite being the source of Buddhism ?

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The Nazis purged all communist sympathizers/left wingers during Hitler’s reign. How did the USSR find the vast number of people required to run the East German state apparatus after WWII?

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What are the earliest known instances of atheism?

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I read that longbows cannot penetrate plate armour. Why did the English keep on using longbow during the Hundred Years’ War if it wasn’t effective against French knights?

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I am looking for a medieval era painting that shows a prince pulling a dead man’s beard:

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Why does India not have a sizeable Buddhist population despite being the source of Buddhism ?	1444
The Nazis purged all communist sympathizers/left wingers during Hitler’s reign. How did the USSR find the vast number of people required to run the East German state apparatus after WWII?	162
What are the earliest known instances of atheism?	29
I read that longbows cannot penetrate plate armour. Why did the English keep on using longbow during the Hundred Years’ War if it wasn’t effective against French knights?	12
I am looking for a medieval era painting that shows a prince pulling a dead man’s beard:	1