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Why did Christianity spread to the Amhara and Tigray people in Ethiopia in the early 4th century but it didn’t spread to the Somalis,Oromo,Afar or other Cushitic groups during that time frame?	1235
How did Wehrmacht training compare to U.S. training during World War 2? was it superior?	1233
I'm a typical sailor in the Caribbean around the end of the 17th century, and a pirate ship has been sighted heading towards us. What would be my reaction, and the reactions of my shipmates?	1231
I grew up in the nineties, with parents who believed conspiracy theories and with a father in a prominent white supremacist terrorist group. I recently began to look more into the roots of that movement. I have questions about "The Order", McVeigh, and the modern militia/sovereign citizen movement.	1202
What happened to the 200,000 Polish children Germany kidnapped and forcibly adopted out to German families?	1202
Where do stereotypical "redneck" names like Bubba, Skeeter, or Cletus come from?	1190
What typically happened before the start of medieval battles?	1189
The Apartheid museum in Johannesburg notes that the sole act of violence committed by the ANC against civilians was a car bombing in Pretoria (1983). My South African colleague disputed this heavily. What was the level of the violence perpetrated by the ANC during the Apartheid years?	1182
There was TIL today how Alexander the Great sent 18 tons of spices to his tutor as a joke. Someone in the comments claimed that most similar stories from ancient times didn't actually happen. How do historians study the historicity of these stories? How likely it is that this story truly happened?	1174
What is the significance of the use of "I am" instead of "I have" when Vishnu says, "I am become death, the destroyer of worlds"?	1168

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