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Did that Japanese internment of the 1940's actually find any uncover Japanese secret agents among the US citizens?

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Are there Muslim communities in Spain to this day who survived the prohibition of Islam in the 16th century/expulsion of Moriscos in the 17th century?

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Why is Finland not considered to be part of Scandinavia ?

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Did famous painters like van Gogh or Picasso ever create their art while drunk, or did they drink and paint at different times? How do their drunk paintings compare to their sober paintings?

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This year, Brazil marks 50 years of the military Coup d'État. What was the US involvement on the Coup that established a dictatorship?

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Has there ever been a society that encouraged the birth of daughters instead of sons?

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Carl Sagan: 'If the Ionian philosophy had prevailed, we might have been travelling in the stars' How accurate is this?

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The old 1-yen banknote portrays a Japanese empress as a seemingly white woman with Caucasian features. What was the reasoning for this?

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Were the bodies of the Easter Island statues intentionally buried to just show the heads, or was it just time?

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In various biographies of people raised in late 1800s-early 1900s, a term I keep hearing is that they were “sickly” children, and weren’t that active. What afflictions are they describing?

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Did that Japanese internment of the 1940's actually find any uncover Japanese secret agents among the US citizens?	292
Are there Muslim communities in Spain to this day who survived the prohibition of Islam in the 16th century/expulsion of Moriscos in the 17th century?	291
Why is Finland not considered to be part of Scandinavia ?	289
Did famous painters like van Gogh or Picasso ever create their art while drunk, or did they drink and paint at different times? How do their drunk paintings compare to their sober paintings?	289
This year, Brazil marks 50 years of the military Coup d'État. What was the US involvement on the Coup that established a dictatorship?	288
Has there ever been a society that encouraged the birth of daughters instead of sons?	286
Carl Sagan: 'If the Ionian philosophy had prevailed, we might have been travelling in the stars' How accurate is this?	286
The old 1-yen banknote portrays a Japanese empress as a seemingly white woman with Caucasian features. What was the reasoning for this?	286
Were the bodies of the Easter Island statues intentionally buried to just show the heads, or was it just time?	285
In various biographies of people raised in late 1800s-early 1900s, a term I keep hearing is that they were “sickly” children, and weren’t that active. What afflictions are they describing?	285