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Was the North/South division of Korea a wholly artificial split forced upon it by the US and USSR or was it a continuation of existing cultural/political trends in post-WW2 Korea?

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My Sikh friend, told me that he thinks that Operation Bluestar in 1984 was an attempt by Indira Gandhi to destroy or cripple Sikhism as a whole, rather than a counterinsurgent operation. Is there any veracity to this claim? What's the historiography around the Khalistan movement?

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At the onset of the Civil War, a massive proportion of the US officer corps joined the confederacy and it took the Union years to attain full supremacy on land. How was the Union so quickly able to attain complete naval supremacy and why didn't half the US navy join the Confederacy?

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The Russian Empire saw itself as the "Third Rome" and had long aspired to take Constantinople from the Ottomans. What was their plan in case they actually managed to capture it?

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Haredi Jews today in Israel enjoy privileges (draft exemptions, welfare, etc) and are simultaneously marginalized and alienated from mainstream Israeli society. What role did ultra-Orthodox Jews have in the founding of Israel and how did this strange state of affairs come to be?

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Early Mesopotamian civilizations are described as lasting for ridiculously long amounts of time while more modern states tend to rarely last longer than 300 years. Why are these early states so stable?

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What did the Mexicans do to provoke the Texan war of independence?

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Did the early Ottoman army differ noticeably from that its Seljuk predecessors or its Turkish contemporaries in Anatolia? (like Çandar and Karaman and all)

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In the classical world, how did non-Greeks perceive the Greek practice of pederasty?

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For hundreds of years, lands stretching from Algeria to Bengal were under the rule of Turks. If Turks dominated for so long, why are Turkic languages, outside of Central Asia, limited to Anatolia and Azerbaijan?

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Was the North/South division of Korea a wholly artificial split forced upon it by the US and USSR or was it a continuation of existing cultural/political trends in post-WW2 Korea?	64
My Sikh friend, told me that he thinks that Operation Bluestar in 1984 was an attempt by Indira Gandhi to destroy or cripple Sikhism as a whole, rather than a counterinsurgent operation. Is there any veracity to this claim? What's the historiography around the Khalistan movement?	63
At the onset of the Civil War, a massive proportion of the US officer corps joined the confederacy and it took the Union years to attain full supremacy on land. How was the Union so quickly able to attain complete naval supremacy and why didn't half the US navy join the Confederacy?	57
The Russian Empire saw itself as the "Third Rome" and had long aspired to take Constantinople from the Ottomans. What was their plan in case they actually managed to capture it?	57
Haredi Jews today in Israel enjoy privileges (draft exemptions, welfare, etc) and are simultaneously marginalized and alienated from mainstream Israeli society. What role did ultra-Orthodox Jews have in the founding of Israel and how did this strange state of affairs come to be?	55
Early Mesopotamian civilizations are described as lasting for ridiculously long amounts of time while more modern states tend to rarely last longer than 300 years. Why are these early states so stable?	55
What did the Mexicans do to provoke the Texan war of independence?	55
Did the early Ottoman army differ noticeably from that its Seljuk predecessors or its Turkish contemporaries in Anatolia? (like Çandar and Karaman and all)	53
In the classical world, how did non-Greeks perceive the Greek practice of pederasty?	52
For hundreds of years, lands stretching from Algeria to Bengal were under the rule of Turks. If Turks dominated for so long, why are Turkic languages, outside of Central Asia, limited to Anatolia and Azerbaijan?	52