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When the Judeans fought the Seleucids, did they use the Macedonian Phalanx?

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As a Czech or Slovene subject of the late Austro-Hungarian empire, what kind of discrimination would I experience compared to a German or Hungarian subject?

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How did the Netherlands, with its strong tradition of republicanism, end up a monarchy?

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How did the status of Irish and Italians change from "not white" to "white" in the United States?

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How did Rabbinic Judaism become a nearly universal form of Judaism?

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We look back at the Ottoman Empire of the 1800s and 1900s as a decaying husk of its former glories and a withered empire teetering on the verge of collapse. Did the people of the 1800s and 1900s see the empire similarly?

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Did the Japanese behave irrationally in WW2?

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The Nazi uniforms are pretty uhhh… "evil" looking. Were they meant to be "evil" looking or are they evil looking because of their association with the Nazis?

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Glasses have been around for a long time, but formalized medical school as we know it is only around 100 years old, and the production of glass is complicated business. What are the origins of the modern system of eyeglass prescription numbers and how did one get glasses before it?

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Neo-Nazis and other Antisemites claim that academics are forbidden from discussing the holocaust or questioning the Jewish narrative. This, we all know, is so incorrect that it's not even wrong but it does lead to this question: how has the historiography of the Holocaust changed over the years?

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When the Judeans fought the Seleucids, did they use the Macedonian Phalanx?	76
As a Czech or Slovene subject of the late Austro-Hungarian empire, what kind of discrimination would I experience compared to a German or Hungarian subject?	76
How did the Netherlands, with its strong tradition of republicanism, end up a monarchy?	75
How did the status of Irish and Italians change from "not white" to "white" in the United States?	74
How did Rabbinic Judaism become a nearly universal form of Judaism?	73
We look back at the Ottoman Empire of the 1800s and 1900s as a decaying husk of its former glories and a withered empire teetering on the verge of collapse. Did the people of the 1800s and 1900s see the empire similarly?	70
Did the Japanese behave irrationally in WW2?	70
The Nazi uniforms are pretty uhhh… "evil" looking. Were they meant to be "evil" looking or are they evil looking because of their association with the Nazis?	68
Glasses have been around for a long time, but formalized medical school as we know it is only around 100 years old, and the production of glass is complicated business. What are the origins of the modern system of eyeglass prescription numbers and how did one get glasses before it?	68
Neo-Nazis and other Antisemites claim that academics are forbidden from discussing the holocaust or questioning the Jewish narrative. This, we all know, is so incorrect that it's not even wrong but it does lead to this question: how has the historiography of the Holocaust changed over the years?	67