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Why before the ww2 in the US the USSR was not criticized as hard as Nazi Germany?

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How come there have been very large Chinese communities in Southeast Asia for centuries, but there haven't been very large communities of Southeast Asian peoples in China?

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I'm confused as to how Eratosthenes was able to calculate the circumference of the Earth

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What was the dueling culture like in pre-1745 Scottish Highlands?

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Were there any divides in the Roman Republic's and Empire's Senate that would be recognizable to us as ideological right vs left?

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What factors led the Kingdom of Sardinia to lead, and succeed, the Italian unification? NSFW

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When did colleges stop putting as much emphasis on classical languages?

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Why were Hitler's peace offers ignored?

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How much truth is there in the statement that the sexual drives we attribute to men and women today used to be reversed? If so, how did they flip?

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I was having a discussion with my friends about the validity of torture as a means of extracting information and thwarting terrorist attacks. In the past few decades have waterboarding and other extraction means ever actually prevented any terrorist attacks?

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Why before the ww2 in the US the USSR was not criticized as hard as Nazi Germany?	8
How come there have been very large Chinese communities in Southeast Asia for centuries, but there haven't been very large communities of Southeast Asian peoples in China?	8
I'm confused as to how Eratosthenes was able to calculate the circumference of the Earth	8
What was the dueling culture like in pre-1745 Scottish Highlands?	8
Were there any divides in the Roman Republic's and Empire's Senate that would be recognizable to us as ideological right vs left?	8
What factors led the Kingdom of Sardinia to lead, and succeed, the Italian unification? NSFW	8
When did colleges stop putting as much emphasis on classical languages?	8
Why were Hitler's peace offers ignored?	8
How much truth is there in the statement that the sexual drives we attribute to men and women today used to be reversed? If so, how did they flip?	8
I was having a discussion with my friends about the validity of torture as a means of extracting information and thwarting terrorist attacks. In the past few decades have waterboarding and other extraction means ever actually prevented any terrorist attacks?	8