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Did the US have the money or projected revenues to fund the Marshall Plan? Or was it mostly a plan built on debt that officials passed on to future generations?

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Farmers' Almanacs were incredibly popular during the colonial period. Why did people want them? Were they full of legitimate and practical information? Superstition? Entertainment?

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The UN was founded to end wars, but has been only marginally effective at doing so. Did the founders not anticipate security council vetos? Did they think things would play out differently?

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Monks copied and preserved most of the surviving Greco-Roman literature. Why did the copying tradition start, and when was it discarded?

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The rationality of The Enlightenment gave way to the unbridled emotion of Romanticism. Why were people so fed up with reason that they felt they needed the polar opposite?

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Was FDR wearing a cloak at the Yalta conference? Were cloaks still worn during WWII?

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Career advice seemed to diverge from its historical practical orientation in the 1980s — 1990s, when new emphasis was placed on "follow your bliss/passion." Do we know what drove this change? Was there any connection to the ancient Catholic idea of a "calling?"

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How frequently did premodern European agriculturalists face famine or food insufficiency? Once a decade? Once every few years?

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Seneca was a powerful politican and a philosopher with a big following, and yet he managed to find time to write plays on the side. How popular were his plays? Was he Rome's Shakespeare?

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"Speak softly but carry a big stick," was Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy plan. As president, did he do more soft speaking or stick whacking? How big was the stick? Did he build up the stick or inherit it from prior administrations?

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Did the US have the money or projected revenues to fund the Marshall Plan? Or was it mostly a plan built on debt that officials passed on to future generations?	4	AskHistorians
Farmers' Almanacs were incredibly popular during the colonial period. Why did people want them? Were they full of legitimate and practical information? Superstition? Entertainment?	4	AskHistorians
The UN was founded to end wars, but has been only marginally effective at doing so. Did the founders not anticipate security council vetos? Did they think things would play out differently?	4	AskHistorians
Monks copied and preserved most of the surviving Greco-Roman literature. Why did the copying tradition start, and when was it discarded?	4	AskHistorians
The rationality of The Enlightenment gave way to the unbridled emotion of Romanticism. Why were people so fed up with reason that they felt they needed the polar opposite?	4	AskHistorians
Was FDR wearing a cloak at the Yalta conference? Were cloaks still worn during WWII?	4	AskHistorians
Career advice seemed to diverge from its historical practical orientation in the 1980s — 1990s, when new emphasis was placed on "follow your bliss/passion." Do we know what drove this change? Was there any connection to the ancient Catholic idea of a "calling?"	4	AskHistorians
How frequently did premodern European agriculturalists face famine or food insufficiency? Once a decade? Once every few years?	4	AskHistorians
Seneca was a powerful politican and a philosopher with a big following, and yet he managed to find time to write plays on the side. How popular were his plays? Was he Rome's Shakespeare?	4	AskHistorians
"Speak softly but carry a big stick," was Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy plan. As president, did he do more soft speaking or stick whacking? How big was the stick? Did he build up the stick or inherit it from prior administrations?	4	AskHistorians