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How is it that Bosnia and Albania remained majority Muslim following the collapse of Ottoman control in the Balkans?	15
Would Soviet citizens born after the rise of communism have been familiar with the Bible? Would they have been allowed to read it, even as a form of literature or historical study?	15
There is a cultural trend in Asia, particularly east, southeast, and south Asia, toward glamorizing fair skin and deglamorizing dark skin. From where did this trend arise? Does it pre-exist contact with the West?	15
In the late 13th Century, armed forces of what is today Vietnam consistently defeated, often decisively, Chinese and Mongol opposition on multiple occasions. Yet their governments eventually agreed to become tributary states to the Yuan Dynasty. Why?	15
What caused the shift in college sports dominance from top-tier private universities to large, public ones?	14
In "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" an annoying dog owned by one Oregon Trail wagon train family incommodes all the other travelers with incessant barking. How were such grievances dealt with, as travelers would be commuting together for long periods in close quarters?	14
What caused the shift from rock/pop bands using primarily studio musicians to record their albums in the 1950s and early 1960s to bands laying down their own music by the 1970s?	14
Prior to the devolution of its constituent countries, did Yugoslavians think of themselves primarily as Yugoslavian or as Serbs, Croats, etc.?	14
The Chicago Cubs have not won a championship in 106 years, the longest drought of any professional sports team in North America. Why?	13
During WWI, there are numerous accounts of soldiers fraternizing with the enemy (soccer games in no-man's land on Christmas, for example). Were any soldiers on either side court-martialed for these incidents?	13

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