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Why did the US support the French campaign to recolonise Vietnam, when they were opposed to it at the start and had pressured against the Dutch reconquest of Indonesia just a few years before?

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If you look at the timeline of the abolition of slavery you see that a lot of Muslim majority countries only did so in the 20th century. How common was slavery actually during that period, especially in the Ottoman Empire?

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Medieval fiction often depicts good Christian knights fighting evil Saracens. Did the Muslim world have a comparable equivalent?

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Did non-white nobility/knights exist in medieval europe?

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Colleen McCollough's "Masters of Rome" series of novels recounts events, and describes the Roman world in a fair bit of detail. How accurate a depicture, from our current understanding of these times and places, are her stories?

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How do historians retain all the information they read?

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"Shaken, not stirred" - spies in Cold War era Germany

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Why did the industrial revolution occur in Britain and not China?

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When and where did the classic "catcall" whistle come from?

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How did Germany surpass France following WW2 both economically and politically despite being more devastated by World War 2 and receiving less funding from the Marshall Plan?

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Why did the US support the French campaign to recolonise Vietnam, when they were opposed to it at the start and had pressured against the Dutch reconquest of Indonesia just a few years before?	48
If you look at the timeline of the abolition of slavery you see that a lot of Muslim majority countries only did so in the 20th century. How common was slavery actually during that period, especially in the Ottoman Empire?	48
Medieval fiction often depicts good Christian knights fighting evil Saracens. Did the Muslim world have a comparable equivalent?	48
Did non-white nobility/knights exist in medieval europe?	48
Colleen McCollough's "Masters of Rome" series of novels recounts events, and describes the Roman world in a fair bit of detail. How accurate a depicture, from our current understanding of these times and places, are her stories?	48
How do historians retain all the information they read?	48
"Shaken, not stirred" - spies in Cold War era Germany	48
Why did the industrial revolution occur in Britain and not China?	48
When and where did the classic "catcall" whistle come from?	48
How did Germany surpass France following WW2 both economically and politically despite being more devastated by World War 2 and receiving less funding from the Marshall Plan?	48