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What was the speed/reliability of intercontinental post/messaging in the 17th-19th centuries?

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Was the holodomor an intentional genocide?

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What is the most accurate map of the Ottoman Empire in 1914 overlayed with a map of the Middle East today?

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Did the US Founding Father's understand the significance of what they were forming?

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What is your favorite time that history was altered by weather and why?

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How exactly did Mercantilist economists/economic thinkers/policymakers define "wealth", if they thought the world had a finite supply of wealth? Surely they saw things like ships being built, so they had some idea of value being created.

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Did any ancient Indian civilizations (ca. 500 BCE to 1000 CE) commonly practice something resembling the gladiator games of Ancient Rome, in which people were made to fight to the death for amusement?

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Benjamin Robbins Curtis is the only Supreme Court Justice to have resigned the Court as a matter of principle, because of this disagreement with the Dred Scott decision. How did this resignation play out on the court, in the government, and in the press?

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Agesilaus B' died at the age of 84 as he was returning to Sparta after a military campaign. Antigonus Monopthalmus died in battle while being 81. How did so aged military men conduct themselves during combat in ancient Greece (and possibly the rest of the Mediterranean)?

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What was the mood of the Siberian Divisions guarding the Japanese border during Operation Barbarossa and then later in the war. Were they jealous of their comrades getting to fight or where they happy to avoid the horrible conditions on the front?

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What was the speed/reliability of intercontinental post/messaging in the 17th-19th centuries?	3
Was the holodomor an intentional genocide?	3
What is the most accurate map of the Ottoman Empire in 1914 overlayed with a map of the Middle East today?	3
Did the US Founding Father's understand the significance of what they were forming?	3
What is your favorite time that history was altered by weather and why?	3
How exactly did Mercantilist economists/economic thinkers/policymakers define "wealth", if they thought the world had a finite supply of wealth? Surely they saw things like ships being built, so they had some idea of value being created.	3
Did any ancient Indian civilizations (ca. 500 BCE to 1000 CE) commonly practice something resembling the gladiator games of Ancient Rome, in which people were made to fight to the death for amusement?	3
Benjamin Robbins Curtis is the only Supreme Court Justice to have resigned the Court as a matter of principle, because of this disagreement with the Dred Scott decision. How did this resignation play out on the court, in the government, and in the press?	3
Agesilaus B' died at the age of 84 as he was returning to Sparta after a military campaign. Antigonus Monopthalmus died in battle while being 81. How did so aged military men conduct themselves during combat in ancient Greece (and possibly the rest of the Mediterranean)?	3
What was the mood of the Siberian Divisions guarding the Japanese border during Operation Barbarossa and then later in the war. Were they jealous of their comrades getting to fight or where they happy to avoid the horrible conditions on the front?	3