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What were Native American wars and battles like in precolonial North America? Do we have any records of inter-tribal conflict, oral or otherwise?

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Have there ever been any successful nonviolent, or mostly blood free, revolutions against a modern democratic government?

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In his opening statement at the Nuremberg Trials, Robert Jackson said "These men created in Germany, under the "Führerprinzip", a National Socialist despotism equalled only by the dynasties of the ancient East." To what dynasties was he referring to? Is the comparison valid?

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When and why are humans believed to have begun worshiping deities, and what are the first full religions known to exist.

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What was Germany's military expectation during the last year of World War II?

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Is the movie trope of a cop testing an unknown powder by dipping his pinkie into it and then to his tongue reflective of reality? Did police used to do this, condoned or not?

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Were/Are the 1800s and earlier centuries divided in any way similar to how we have split the 1900s into decades each with distinctive styles and defining events?

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When and why are humans believed to have begun worshiping deities, and what are the first full religions known to exist.

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Columbus discovered the new world (after the vikings), but is there any evidence of earlier contact between the indigenous people of Siberia and the Inuit of what is present day Alaska/Canada?

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Why are the Japanese so unthankful that the US airdropped them atomic bongs?

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What were Native American wars and battles like in precolonial North America? Do we have any records of inter-tribal conflict, oral or otherwise?	322
Have there ever been any successful nonviolent, or mostly blood free, revolutions against a modern democratic government?	25
In his opening statement at the Nuremberg Trials, Robert Jackson said "These men created in Germany, under the "Führerprinzip", a National Socialist despotism equalled only by the dynasties of the ancient East." To what dynasties was he referring to? Is the comparison valid?	24
When and why are humans believed to have begun worshiping deities, and what are the first full religions known to exist.	24
What was Germany's military expectation during the last year of World War II?	16
Is the movie trope of a cop testing an unknown powder by dipping his pinkie into it and then to his tongue reflective of reality? Did police used to do this, condoned or not?	8
Were/Are the 1800s and earlier centuries divided in any way similar to how we have split the 1900s into decades each with distinctive styles and defining events?	6
When and why are humans believed to have begun worshiping deities, and what are the first full religions known to exist.	6
Columbus discovered the new world (after the vikings), but is there any evidence of earlier contact between the indigenous people of Siberia and the Inuit of what is present day Alaska/Canada?	3
Why are the Japanese so unthankful that the US airdropped them atomic bongs?	1