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How did the Space Shuttle program go so dramatically over its budget?

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How did the hajj, the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, work in the medieval era? Would the average Muslim have had a better knowledge of geography than the average non-Muslim because of the necessity of knowing how to get to there?

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What was the development of package tracking like for the US Postal Service?

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How was ice cream made, transported, and stored prior to electric refrigeration? Did the majority of the world just not have access to it?

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How did mint become the go-to toothpaste flavor?

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How WERE murder cases investigated prior to the advent of forensic evidence?

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How did the Bolshevik leadership react to the killing of the Romanov children?

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Have there been any attempts to rename Salt Lake City something a bit more... Mormon? Why does a place so dominated by a single religion still go by such a secular name?

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Does Frosty the Snowman have any historical inspiration or antecedents?

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When they were first being used, did people object to lighthouses for aesthetic reasons, the way modern people object to having windmills in their backyard?

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How did the Space Shuttle program go so dramatically over its budget?	4	AskHistorians
How did the hajj, the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, work in the medieval era? Would the average Muslim have had a better knowledge of geography than the average non-Muslim because of the necessity of knowing how to get to there?	4	AskHistorians
What was the development of package tracking like for the US Postal Service?	4	AskHistorians
How was ice cream made, transported, and stored prior to electric refrigeration? Did the majority of the world just not have access to it?	4	AskHistorians
How did mint become the go-to toothpaste flavor?	3	AskHistorians
How WERE murder cases investigated prior to the advent of forensic evidence?	3	AskHistorians
How did the Bolshevik leadership react to the killing of the Romanov children?	3	AskHistorians
Have there been any attempts to rename Salt Lake City something a bit more... Mormon? Why does a place so dominated by a single religion still go by such a secular name?	3	AskHistorians
Does Frosty the Snowman have any historical inspiration or antecedents?	3	AskHistorians
When they were first being used, did people object to lighthouses for aesthetic reasons, the way modern people object to having windmills in their backyard?	3	AskHistorians