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Did George W. Bush really steal an election in the 2000 USA election?

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How did "First World" and "Third World" come to mean economic development when the original First, Second, and Third Worlds meant political alignments in the early Cold War?

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When did the Hellenic faith die? Was it true there were still isolated believers of the old gods in the hitherlands of Greece by 1000AD?

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Why did industrialization under the Song Dynasty a thousand years ago in China not develop industrial capitalism like Europe did in the 17th-19th centuries?

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Why did the struggle for a shorter working day stop at 8 hours?

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Did an anarchist commune really exist in the Shinmin region in Manchuria during 1929–1931?

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An old WW2 joke goes: after a night of artillery bombardment, Americans liberated a French village; among the rubble an infantryman asks another, "what were we liberating again?" Was the liberation of Europe by the allies really as destructive as the joke suggests?

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How was Trotsky and Trotskyist theory viewed in the Soviet Union post Stalin and Destalinification?

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Prison and police abolitionists suggest that prisons and police were only invented within the last few hundred years. How accurate is this statement from a historian's perspective? Where did police and prisons come from?

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South American Plan to Invade the Philippines?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Did George W. Bush really steal an election in the 2000 USA election?	9150
How did "First World" and "Third World" come to mean economic development when the original First, Second, and Third Worlds meant political alignments in the early Cold War?	1539
When did the Hellenic faith die? Was it true there were still isolated believers of the old gods in the hitherlands of Greece by 1000AD?	669
Why did industrialization under the Song Dynasty a thousand years ago in China not develop industrial capitalism like Europe did in the 17th-19th centuries?	620
Why did the struggle for a shorter working day stop at 8 hours?	250
Did an anarchist commune really exist in the Shinmin region in Manchuria during 1929–1931?	85
An old WW2 joke goes: after a night of artillery bombardment, Americans liberated a French village; among the rubble an infantryman asks another, "what were we liberating again?" Was the liberation of Europe by the allies really as destructive as the joke suggests?	78
How was Trotsky and Trotskyist theory viewed in the Soviet Union post Stalin and Destalinification?	76
Prison and police abolitionists suggest that prisons and police were only invented within the last few hundred years. How accurate is this statement from a historian's perspective? Where did police and prisons come from?	68
South American Plan to Invade the Philippines?	59