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Why is the Rwandan Genocide usually remembered as a self-contained event? Why isn't there as much attention on the concurrent ethnic massacres in Burundi or the Rwandan genocide's spillover into the Congo Wars?

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More Indian movies sold over 20 million tickets in the Soviet Union than any other foreign national cinema. Why were Indian movies so popular in the Soviet Union? Did Bollywood movies and Indian culture make a noticeable impact on Soviet popular culture and filmmaking?

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Why did some mid-20th century English writers intentionally favour "Anglo-Saxon" vocabulary?

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The destruction of the Southern Shaolin Temple by the Qing is a central event in Hong Kong martial arts movies, but this temple might not have existed. Where did this myth come from, and what role did it play in martial arts history?

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I am an undergraduate student writing an exam for a course on German history in a British Dominion university in 1916. Would I be expected to give propaganda or "politically correct" answers?

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What is the New Historicism school of literary studies, and how does it similar to, or different from, "regular" cultural and intellectual history by historians?

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Between the Milgram experiment in 1961 and the Stanford prison experiment in 1971, why was there such a strong interest in the social psychology of conformity and obedience in the 1960s?

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What do we know for certain about Plato's political involvement in Syracuse's court politics, and its impact on the subsequent development of his philosophy?

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Why is the Rwandan Genocide usually remembered as a self-contained event? Why isn't there as much attention on the concurrent ethnic massacres in Burundi or the Rwandan genocide's spillover into the Congo Wars?	461
More Indian movies sold over 20 million tickets in the Soviet Union than any other foreign national cinema. Why were Indian movies so popular in the Soviet Union? Did Bollywood movies and Indian culture make a noticeable impact on Soviet popular culture and filmmaking?	209
Why did some mid-20th century English writers intentionally favour "Anglo-Saxon" vocabulary?	110
The destruction of the Southern Shaolin Temple by the Qing is a central event in Hong Kong martial arts movies, but this temple might not have existed. Where did this myth come from, and what role did it play in martial arts history?	52
I am an undergraduate student writing an exam for a course on German history in a British Dominion university in 1916. Would I be expected to give propaganda or "politically correct" answers?	2
What is the New Historicism school of literary studies, and how does it similar to, or different from, "regular" cultural and intellectual history by historians?	1
Between the Milgram experiment in 1961 and the Stanford prison experiment in 1971, why was there such a strong interest in the social psychology of conformity and obedience in the 1960s?	1
What do we know for certain about Plato's political involvement in Syracuse's court politics, and its impact on the subsequent development of his philosophy?	1