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Why did the British subsidize Bollywood to compete with the American movie industry rather than put the subsidies into their own movies?

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How did Latin America, a region with very little indigenous domestic livestock, build several notable cheesemaking traditions?

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Why did some countries have elaborate flags in the era before screen printing or sewing machines?

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How did the Turkish Nationalists manage build an army from scratch while at the same time fight a war against Greeks, French, Armenians, and Pontic rebels?

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It is commonly believed by some people that American policy is the result of "Zionist influence" or other antisemitic conspiracy theories. Let's flip this around. Have there been historical concerns in Israel about excessive American influence?

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2 politically active people in the USSR in the 1960s are getting into a heated argument over politics. What kinds of issues would they arguing about?

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Is Neo-Nazism at all an intellectual/ideological successor of German National Socialism and if they aren't, what caused the first "Neo-Nazi" groups to affiliate themselves with Nazi Germany?

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Why were African and sometimes American dictators so notoriously eccentric?

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Did the Mayan civilization actually collapse?

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Why are the Mughals, Safavids, and Ottomans referred to as the Gunpowder Empires when the core of their armies, much like everyone else, rested on dashing cavalry?

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Why did the British subsidize Bollywood to compete with the American movie industry rather than put the subsidies into their own movies?	45
How did Latin America, a region with very little indigenous domestic livestock, build several notable cheesemaking traditions?	44
Why did some countries have elaborate flags in the era before screen printing or sewing machines?	44
How did the Turkish Nationalists manage build an army from scratch while at the same time fight a war against Greeks, French, Armenians, and Pontic rebels?	44
It is commonly believed by some people that American policy is the result of "Zionist influence" or other antisemitic conspiracy theories. Let's flip this around. Have there been historical concerns in Israel about excessive American influence?	42
2 politically active people in the USSR in the 1960s are getting into a heated argument over politics. What kinds of issues would they arguing about?	39
Is Neo-Nazism at all an intellectual/ideological successor of German National Socialism and if they aren't, what caused the first "Neo-Nazi" groups to affiliate themselves with Nazi Germany?	38
Why were African and sometimes American dictators so notoriously eccentric?	38
Did the Mayan civilization actually collapse?	38
Why are the Mughals, Safavids, and Ottomans referred to as the Gunpowder Empires when the core of their armies, much like everyone else, rested on dashing cavalry?	37