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Why did Staten Island remain mostly residential, and not develop more like Manhattan did?

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When Rome had two emperors, how common were imperial visits to the other half of the empire?

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Whatever happened to the UK debt to USA from WW1?

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What do historians do?

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In July 1940 when Winston Churchill gave the French Navy in Algeria the ultimatum to sail to a British port and join the free french forces, how come they didn’t oblige and chose to be sunk?

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Why was there no European intervention into the Bosnia genocide?

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Why were/are there so few women in political leadership of the communist states even though they advanced women's rights and held gender equality as an important part of their ideology?

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The JFK/Lyndon Johnson duo sounds almost like a sitcom setup: an elegant patrician New and Englander a boastful self-made Texan who had to run the country together. What was their dynamic like behind closed doors?

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How was the sex life of the Ottoman Sultan?

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I am an ethnically English person, born and raised in India, in the late 1940's, and it's clear that Indian independence is imminent. I've spent my whole life here and I want to stay. Realistically, is this an option?

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Why did Staten Island remain mostly residential, and not develop more like Manhattan did?	254
When Rome had two emperors, how common were imperial visits to the other half of the empire?	254
Whatever happened to the UK debt to USA from WW1?	254
What do historians do?	253
In July 1940 when Winston Churchill gave the French Navy in Algeria the ultimatum to sail to a British port and join the free french forces, how come they didn’t oblige and chose to be sunk?	253
Why was there no European intervention into the Bosnia genocide?	252
Why were/are there so few women in political leadership of the communist states even though they advanced women's rights and held gender equality as an important part of their ideology?	252
The JFK/Lyndon Johnson duo sounds almost like a sitcom setup: an elegant patrician New and Englander a boastful self-made Texan who had to run the country together. What was their dynamic like behind closed doors?	252
How was the sex life of the Ottoman Sultan?	251
I am an ethnically English person, born and raised in India, in the late 1940's, and it's clear that Indian independence is imminent. I've spent my whole life here and I want to stay. Realistically, is this an option?	251