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Did the Japanese suspect anything when the US didn’t bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

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In Napoleon's armies, how was it determined whether a soldier would serve in artillery, cavalry, line infantry, skirmishers, or etc.?

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When was the city of Athens named after the Goddess Athena?

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Singapore is quite proud of its leap from "third world to first world" within a generation. How true is this claim? Was Singapore in its early years truly a poor and backwards state, or did it actually inherit the institutions and infrastructure for building a wealthy nation?

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In the 1891 story The Five Orange Pips, Sherlock Holmes solves a crime committed by the Ku Klux Klan. What was the general view of the Klan among the English upper class at the time?

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How did the French justify having a colonial empire during and after the French revolution? "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" seems pretty opposed to the idea of colonialism.

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How was life as a Carthaginian compared to life as a Roman?

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A /r/bestof comment makes the claim that historically India was a single inclusive nation of cultural and religious diversity, and Europeans weren't able to "understand" that. Is this historically accurate?

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Were there any gym-like locations in Ancient Rome or Greece where people would go and workout?

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It seems blindingly obvious that drugs like heroin and chloral hydrate are addictive. When these drugs were marketed as "non-addictive" was that just a lie, or was the medical consensus at the time that they really were not addictive?

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Did the Japanese suspect anything when the US didn’t bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki?	242
In Napoleon's armies, how was it determined whether a soldier would serve in artillery, cavalry, line infantry, skirmishers, or etc.?	241
When was the city of Athens named after the Goddess Athena?	240
Singapore is quite proud of its leap from "third world to first world" within a generation. How true is this claim? Was Singapore in its early years truly a poor and backwards state, or did it actually inherit the institutions and infrastructure for building a wealthy nation?	239
In the 1891 story The Five Orange Pips, Sherlock Holmes solves a crime committed by the Ku Klux Klan. What was the general view of the Klan among the English upper class at the time?	239
How did the French justify having a colonial empire during and after the French revolution? "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" seems pretty opposed to the idea of colonialism.	238
How was life as a Carthaginian compared to life as a Roman?	238
A /r/bestof comment makes the claim that historically India was a single inclusive nation of cultural and religious diversity, and Europeans weren't able to "understand" that. Is this historically accurate?	238
Were there any gym-like locations in Ancient Rome or Greece where people would go and workout?	238
It seems blindingly obvious that drugs like heroin and chloral hydrate are addictive. When these drugs were marketed as "non-addictive" was that just a lie, or was the medical consensus at the time that they really were not addictive?	238