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What Sorts of Investment Opportunities did Mughal Aristocrats Have?

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It is said that the inventor of shopping carts, Sylvan Goldman, has to pay male models in his stores to walk around using them as men found them too effeminate. Why might the ability to bring more groceries home to your family have been initially seen as effeminate in 1930’s America?

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What drove Industrial Revolution-era farmers to move to factory jobs?

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Did Hitler and/or NSDAP officials participate in political debates?

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In most of Joan of Arc's cultural depictions, Charles VII is reffered to as "the Dauphin", even by his followers. Wouldn't that be insulting, given he was technically King for seven years already when he met the Maid?

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While the Tianamen Square Massacre was taking place, what was happening in other parts of China?

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How did the myth of "Nazi-like efficiency" come into being?

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What system was in place (if any) in the Ottoman Empire for Janissaries that could no longer fight?

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What was it like to be a mixed-race person in Soviet Union? Did they face the same identity crisis like the ones in USA too?

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Why didn't the rulers of the British Empire ever refer to themselves as "Emperor"?

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What Sorts of Investment Opportunities did Mughal Aristocrats Have?	6
It is said that the inventor of shopping carts, Sylvan Goldman, has to pay male models in his stores to walk around using them as men found them too effeminate. Why might the ability to bring more groceries home to your family have been initially seen as effeminate in 1930’s America?	6
What drove Industrial Revolution-era farmers to move to factory jobs?	6
Did Hitler and/or NSDAP officials participate in political debates?	6
In most of Joan of Arc's cultural depictions, Charles VII is reffered to as "the Dauphin", even by his followers. Wouldn't that be insulting, given he was technically King for seven years already when he met the Maid?	6
While the Tianamen Square Massacre was taking place, what was happening in other parts of China?	6
How did the myth of "Nazi-like efficiency" come into being?	6
What system was in place (if any) in the Ottoman Empire for Janissaries that could no longer fight?	6
What was it like to be a mixed-race person in Soviet Union? Did they face the same identity crisis like the ones in USA too?	6
Why didn't the rulers of the British Empire ever refer to themselves as "Emperor"?	6