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What are your favorite Youtube channels about history that create really qualitative and in-depth videos (more than 30 min) ?	51
Why did the CIA not stop Castro like it did in other countries?	51
David Hume, in the essay "Of National Characters", mentions an educated Jamaican as an example of African genius. Who was he?	51
Was rape really non-existent in the Pre-Columbian Americas? NSFW	51
In Disney’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’ Belle, a provincial girl, famously loves to read while Gaston, a well regarded male and community leader seems unable. In pre-revolutionary France how often would a woman be more literate than a man of some renown?	51
How were medieval battlefields chosen? Was it like in a schoolyard fight where everyone agrees to meet at the dumpster behind the 7/11 to beat each other up in an honorable agreement or was it spontaneous like today's firefights in war?	51
A common image of the start of American liquor prohibition is of people dumping barrels upon barrels of alcohol on the streets, into sewers, etc. Do we know if there were any environmental ramifications or other such consequences from this dumping such as fish showing up dead from alcohol poisoning?	51
What was the contemporary perception of the Soviet economy like?	51
“The most valuable company in history was the the Dutch East India Company, with an adjusted value of ~$8,000,000,000,000.00” What did this wealth mean back then? The owners and executives couldn’t exactly log on to their bank accounts. What were the other stock metrics? P/E? Etc.	51
In 1990 when Iraq invaded Kuwait they cited Kuwait slant drilling and stealing their oil as a reason for war. How true was this? Did Saddam Hussein ever present evidence of Kuwait’s alleged slant drilling?	51

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