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What was President Abraham Lincoln's reaction to the French Invasion of Mexico, in 1861?	337
I'm a peasant living in 1300s England. How hard would it be to get a copy of the Quran. Is it even possible? Would I even know what the Quran is? What would happen if authorities caught me with it?	271
Kaiser Wilhelm II, King George V, and Czar Nicolas II were all first cousins of each other, yet World War 1 still happened. How much control did Monarchs have control over their countries going to war in the 19th and early 20th century? Did monarchs care that they were going to war with family?	264
Stalin seems to get lots of blame for the Holodomor (Ukrainian Genocide). But from what I've read, the Ukrainians voluntarily burned their food and killed their live stock which caused a mass starving. What did Stalin actually do during Holodomor?	259
How did the Ottoman Empire react to the American Revolutionary War or did they even care?	115
Did Germans still refer to Germany as the Weimar Republic after Hitler was elected? When was it apparent that Nazi Germany was different from the Weimar Republic to the German people?	67
Why did Japan need to invade French Indo-China, in 1940, if it was under control of Vichy France which was basically a German puppet state? Could Japan not just ask Germany to force France to allow troops there? How much control did Germany have over French territories, if any?	48
Before telecommunication, how would the leaders of a warring nation send a message of the surrender to the leaders of the other nation? How exactly do you send a messenger to the other side with out getting killed before they can deliver the message?	46
In the show Vikings, it implies that the Roman Empire is essentially forgotten by c.800 CE. how accurate is this?	43
In the Hunt for Red October the sonar guy was able to identify types of submarines and torpedoes just by the sounds they make without the help of a computer. Was this possible?	37

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