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Were “Austrian” and “Bavarian” ever used interchangeably historically?

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Was the East German army expected to fight in West Germany in the event of the Cold war going hot?

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Modern Chinese history speaks of "liberating" several regions/cities before the founding of the PRC, do we have any accounts of what this would look like?

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Are there any good biographies on South Asian historical figures written by Western authors or from a Western perspective?

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“Britain was unremarkable for practicing slavery but remarkable for abolishing it.” This is a common argument I see, how do historians feel about it?

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Why do we define the Holocaust as the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jewish people when ~11 million members of other groups were also murdered?

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Which complaints about "urban" areas people had in ancient and medieval times that are similar to ours? Was there any odd ones?

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Has there been a push to not display remains of Ancient Egyptians in museums?

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During the slave era in Virginia, US - were terracotta African slave masks ever made and used in theatrical productions?

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How did the USA top Marginal Income Tax Rate go from 0% in 1912 to above 90% by 1960 to less than 39% in 2001? That seems like massive changes over a period of less a century - what was pushing them up and the down?

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Were “Austrian” and “Bavarian” ever used interchangeably historically?	4
Was the East German army expected to fight in West Germany in the event of the Cold war going hot?	4
Modern Chinese history speaks of "liberating" several regions/cities before the founding of the PRC, do we have any accounts of what this would look like?	4
Are there any good biographies on South Asian historical figures written by Western authors or from a Western perspective?	4
“Britain was unremarkable for practicing slavery but remarkable for abolishing it.” This is a common argument I see, how do historians feel about it?	4
Why do we define the Holocaust as the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jewish people when ~11 million members of other groups were also murdered?	4
Which complaints about "urban" areas people had in ancient and medieval times that are similar to ours? Was there any odd ones?	4
Has there been a push to not display remains of Ancient Egyptians in museums?	4
During the slave era in Virginia, US - were terracotta African slave masks ever made and used in theatrical productions?	4
How did the USA top Marginal Income Tax Rate go from 0% in 1912 to above 90% by 1960 to less than 39% in 2001? That seems like massive changes over a period of less a century - what was pushing them up and the down?	4