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Why are Protestant European countries generally much less religious that Catholic countries.

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Why didn't complex, Pre-Columbian empires develop in North America like they did in Central and South America?

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When did testing new hires for drugs become standard practice, and why?

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Why doesn't Turkey recognize the Armenian Genocide?

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"You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!" - What was the medical views of Dickens' time that caused him to write this?

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Was skin color always a point of contention between people? It seems that europeans at medieval times were at least "cooperative" with dark skin people - like Egypt or India. So when did the skin tone became a point of "he's lesser than us"?

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How did people who had their flights emergency land on 9/11 get home?

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What caused the decline of Blaxploitation films after the early 1980s?

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Why didn't the Carthaginians provide more support to Hannibal?

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Wikipedia claims that Grant "fought and won more battles, commanded many more men, took more prisoners, in six years, than Napoleon had in twenty". Is this true?

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Why are Protestant European countries generally much less religious that Catholic countries.	63
Why didn't complex, Pre-Columbian empires develop in North America like they did in Central and South America?	63
When did testing new hires for drugs become standard practice, and why?	63
Why doesn't Turkey recognize the Armenian Genocide?	63
"You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!" - What was the medical views of Dickens' time that caused him to write this?	62
Was skin color always a point of contention between people? It seems that europeans at medieval times were at least "cooperative" with dark skin people - like Egypt or India. So when did the skin tone became a point of "he's lesser than us"?	62
How did people who had their flights emergency land on 9/11 get home?	62
What caused the decline of Blaxploitation films after the early 1980s?	62
Why didn't the Carthaginians provide more support to Hannibal?	62
Wikipedia claims that Grant "fought and won more battles, commanded many more men, took more prisoners, in six years, than Napoleon had in twenty". Is this true?	62