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1990s America seemed to be a time of economic prosperity and overall happiness. Why didn’t this continue?
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How big was the Roman naval presence in the Red Sea? Did the Roman Empire ever consider digging a canal to link it to the Mediterranean, as the French did millennia later?
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Did ancient Egyptians know where the Nile flowed from? Did they ever travel all the way to Lake Victoria?
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What was academia like in the Soviet Union? Specifically, how were issues of faculty, tenure, and university administration handled?
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Why did the state of Utah utilize the firing squad when virtually every other US state carried out executions by hanging or other methods?
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Homoeroticism has shown up in literature as far back as the ancient Greeks. What could literature tell us about perceptions of LGBTQ+ people over different time periods?
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How did Prohibition in the US impact recipes that used alcohol, such as shrimp scampi or beer battered cod?
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People often say "even if Hitler didn't exist, another angry leader would have probably risen to power and the Holocaust would have still happened". How virulent was antisemitism in Western Europe before Hitler came to power? Were ideas like racial cleansing and industrial genocide being discussed?
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