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What racial barriers did African-American entertainers break?

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Considering that a stunning amount of ancient scientific texts were lost in the destruction of the Library of Alexandria, what do you think is depicted in the myth of Icarus?

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In 1951, W.E.B. Du Bois and a number of other intellectuals accused the United States of genocide against Black Americans. How do historians view this nowadays?

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How much of Russia did Napoleon or Hitler expect to conquer?

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What is Homeric poetry and how did it get invented and become something that was view as a separate type of writing style?

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Are there perquisites to do a Doctorates thesis on a subject with no English writings covering it?

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How were generals and tacticians chosen in ancient greece?

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I read that roughly 200,000 Africans were sold into Europe during the Atlantic slave trade, and that they could account for some SSA DNA markers in the modern European Gene pool. Where exactly in Europe did these slaves end up? Can it be assumed they mixed with Europeans and left their descendants?

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What racial barriers did African-American entertainers break?	5
Considering that a stunning amount of ancient scientific texts were lost in the destruction of the Library of Alexandria, what do you think is depicted in the myth of Icarus?	5
In 1951, W.E.B. Du Bois and a number of other intellectuals accused the United States of genocide against Black Americans. How do historians view this nowadays?	5
[deleted by user]	5
How much of Russia did Napoleon or Hitler expect to conquer?	5
What is Homeric poetry and how did it get invented and become something that was view as a separate type of writing style?	5
[deleted by user]	5
Are there perquisites to do a Doctorates thesis on a subject with no English writings covering it?	5
How were generals and tacticians chosen in ancient greece?	5
I read that roughly 200,000 Africans were sold into Europe during the Atlantic slave trade, and that they could account for some SSA DNA markers in the modern European Gene pool. Where exactly in Europe did these slaves end up? Can it be assumed they mixed with Europeans and left their descendants?	5