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It's the late 1700's and I'm boarding a ship from London to New York. I'm terrified of the ship sinking en route. How well-founded is this fear? Statistically speaking, should I have any concern? Or is such a voyage comparable to modern commercial air travel in terms of risk?
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The spy drama series “Deutschland 83” portrays the US deployment of Pershing II nuclear missiles to Europe as hugely alarming to the Warsaw Pact & very destabilizing of the overall situation. How accurate is this?
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Is there any truth to the claim that the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth more tolerant toward Jews and other minority groups than the other European polities of that era? If so, why?
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How and when did the contrasting stereotypes of the sexually open Europeans and prudish Americans originate?
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The Red Army had Deep Battle and the Wehrmacht had bewegungskrieg/kesselschlact (“blitzkrieg”)...what did the Imperial Japanese Army have?
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In the years between the World Wars, how aware were the world’s naval leaders about the threat posed by aircraft to capital ships? Was there a general sense that battleships would soon be highly vulnerable to air attack, or was this something they collectively realized in the first half of WW2?
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How safe was trans-Atlantic travel in the late 18th century? If I’m preparing for my my first-ever voyage between the 13 Colonies and Britain, how nervous should I actually be?
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The Ukrainian famine known as the Holodomor was buried in Soviet red tape for decades and largely unknown by those who did not experience it. How did the Holodomor become widely known internationally? What were the initial political & academic reactions, and how have they changed over time?
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What did the Axis think of the US military’s performance during WW2? What impressed them the most, and the least, about the American way of war? And did anything in particular surprise them?
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