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Everyone who could write between the advent of cheap paper and 1940 seemed to keep a journal or commonplace book. Was journaling promoted in popular culture? How did it become so popular, and why did people decide journaling was a positive thing?
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Why didn't the United States develop a large coal export industry like other coal-rich countries like Australia?
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Rice paddies introduced a malaria epidemic to the southern US by giving mosquitoes a place to breed. Was Asia just as affected? If not, how did they prevent malaria from spreading in the paddies?
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Would nonelites in ancient Greece or Roman be able to do basic multiplication and division? When did those skills become common among those who hadn't received an elite education?
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Has the U.S capital ever been close to moving out of the District of Columbia? How hard would such a move be?
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Do historians mostly agree that there was a Eurasian "Axial Age" revolutionizing philosophy and religion from the 8th to 3rd centuries B.C.? What common denominator caused this shift over so wide an area? Were the ideas/religions very different from what came before?
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123 Countries are part of the International Criminal Court, including virtually all of Europe and numerous African and Latin American countries. China, Russia, and the United States are notably not members, and don't adhere to court decisions. Why is the US in the same boat as China and Russia?
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