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What do we know about how sanitary Roman baths were?	13
In Ancient Rome, 69 AD was known as the “Year of Four Emperors”. How did this political turmoil affect the daily life of an average citizen in the city of Rome?	11
How did the competing Soviet and American space agencies view each other during the Space Race? Did the opinions of the astronauts and cosmonauts differ from this?	10
Anarchists committed countless acts of violence (including terrorism and political assassination) in the U.S. and worldwide in the late 19th/early 20th century. How was this movement eventually defeated, particularly in the U.S.?	10
During WWII on the Hawaiian islands, what was life like for the ethnically Japanese population? Was there unrest or insurgency on the islands? Was there any sort of internment like there was on the mainland?	7
Is there any insight into why Marcus Aurelius (viewed as a wise philosopher Emperor) chose his son Commodus (viewed as one of the worst Roman emperors) as his heir?	7
To what extent (and for what purpose) did the British arm and otherwise support Native Americans in their resistance against the United States after the end of the American Revolutionary War?	6
In Ancient Rome, 69 AD was known as the “Year of Four Emperors”. How did this political turmoil affect the daily life of an average citizen in the city of Rome?	5
What was a typical Roman farm like on the Italian peninsula during the time of Emperor Augustus?	3
I recently learned that during WWII the US Navy collaborated with the Italian mafia to prevent dockworkers from going on strike. Can anybody here give more details on this? Was this collaboration effective?	3

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