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The Star Trek episode “The Best of Both Worlds” aired around the time of the fall of the USSR and it seems kind of obvious that the enemy “The Borg” were modeled off of communism or similar threats of collectivism. Why was that a big talking point at that moment?

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Is the start of the androgynous male beauty standard (e.g. idols) in East Asian culture, directly attributable to Johnny Kitagawa? Or were androgynous men already considered handsome before the idol industry?

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How do historians date the writings of Josephus, Aristotle and Plato to the time period they lived in when the oldest surviving manuscripts appear several centuries after they lived ?

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Historically, when did the concept of "A human life has value and it's sacred" started to being considered more widely? Did philosophy and/or religion played a role or the personal experience?

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Why and when did French "soft power" decline?

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In Victorian England, did friendship between men and women exist like it does today, or was interaction between men and women just restricted to marriage?

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Why did arbitrary borders hinder post-colonial African nations when countries like the US were strengthened by having a "melting pot" of cultures?

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What's the percentage of people that owned slaves in the USA when it was legal?

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Why are ancient Greek sources so interested in Persian eunuchs? (Ancient Greece and Ancient Persia)

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Were ‘bounty payoffs’ a real thing?

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The Star Trek episode “The Best of Both Worlds” aired around the time of the fall of the USSR and it seems kind of obvious that the enemy “The Borg” were modeled off of communism or similar threats of collectivism. Why was that a big talking point at that moment?	22
Is the start of the androgynous male beauty standard (e.g. idols) in East Asian culture, directly attributable to Johnny Kitagawa? Or were androgynous men already considered handsome before the idol industry?	22
How do historians date the writings of Josephus, Aristotle and Plato to the time period they lived in when the oldest surviving manuscripts appear several centuries after they lived ?	22
Historically, when did the concept of "A human life has value and it's sacred" started to being considered more widely? Did philosophy and/or religion played a role or the personal experience?	22
Why and when did French "soft power" decline?	22
In Victorian England, did friendship between men and women exist like it does today, or was interaction between men and women just restricted to marriage?	21
Why did arbitrary borders hinder post-colonial African nations when countries like the US were strengthened by having a "melting pot" of cultures?	21
What's the percentage of people that owned slaves in the USA when it was legal?	21
Why are ancient Greek sources so interested in Persian eunuchs? (Ancient Greece and Ancient Persia)	21
Were ‘bounty payoffs’ a real thing?	21