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In WW1, why didn't Germany use it's submarines to break the British blockade?

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Why did anti-mainland sentiments not arise in Macao similar to Hong Kong? Or do we not just hear about them?

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How did “flipping burgers” become the stereotypical bad/lazy job in America discourse?

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How has the concept of history changed throughout history?

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A neo-Nazi told me Hitler backed Germany's currency with German labour, and that is what fuelled the Third Reich's rise. How true is This?

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Why did the US support the French campaign to recolonise Vietnam, when they were opposed to it at the start and had pressured against the Dutch reconquest of Indonesia just a few years before?

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If you look at the timeline of the abolition of slavery you see that a lot of Muslim majority countries only did so in the 20th century. How common was slavery actually during that period, especially in the Ottoman Empire?

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Medieval fiction often depicts good Christian knights fighting evil Saracens. Did the Muslim world have a comparable equivalent?

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Did non-white nobility/knights exist in medieval europe?

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Colleen McCollough's "Masters of Rome" series of novels recounts events, and describes the Roman world in a fair bit of detail. How accurate a depicture, from our current understanding of these times and places, are her stories?

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In WW1, why didn't Germany use it's submarines to break the British blockade?	48
Why did anti-mainland sentiments not arise in Macao similar to Hong Kong? Or do we not just hear about them?	48
How did “flipping burgers” become the stereotypical bad/lazy job in America discourse?	48
How has the concept of history changed throughout history?	48
A neo-Nazi told me Hitler backed Germany's currency with German labour, and that is what fuelled the Third Reich's rise. How true is This?	48
Why did the US support the French campaign to recolonise Vietnam, when they were opposed to it at the start and had pressured against the Dutch reconquest of Indonesia just a few years before?	48
If you look at the timeline of the abolition of slavery you see that a lot of Muslim majority countries only did so in the 20th century. How common was slavery actually during that period, especially in the Ottoman Empire?	48
Medieval fiction often depicts good Christian knights fighting evil Saracens. Did the Muslim world have a comparable equivalent?	48
Did non-white nobility/knights exist in medieval europe?	48
Colleen McCollough's "Masters of Rome" series of novels recounts events, and describes the Roman world in a fair bit of detail. How accurate a depicture, from our current understanding of these times and places, are her stories?	48