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How bad was alcoholism in Victorian Britain?	361
Given Aboriginal Australians are the oldest continuing culture, arriving in Australia around 65,000 years ago could the oral stories of yahoos be references to archaic humans like the Neanderthal and Denisovans who died out 40,000 and 30,000-15,000 years ago?	361
In 1211, Genghis Khan had 200 000 men march 450 miles to Pekin. How did they get the resources like food and water to sustain so many men for such a long time?	360
U-boat historian Michael Gannon maintains that the U-boat navy was one of the least pro-Nazi branches of the Wehrmacht. How true is this claim and what were the underlying reasons for the Kriegsmarine’s general apathy towards Nazism compared to the other branches of the German armed forces?	360
I'm an average guy living in pre-Christian Ireland. What is my life like?	359
Why does San Marino exist? What was so unique about that area that it did not become part of Italy during unification, and instead became a microstate?	359
What was life like in the Papal States for ordinary people? Any time period is interesting to me - I'm curious mainly whether it functioned like any other italian state or if it was significantly different to them on account of the Pope's rule	358
Is there historical precedent for the absurd housing costs in modern cities like Amsterdam, San Francisco, New York, etc? If you go back to the 1920s or 1960s for example would it have been comparatively expensive in these kinds of cities as it is now?	358
[Meta] is there a way to discourage questions of the type "refute politically loaded bad history question" that seem to be popping up recently?	357

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