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In media pirates are portrayed with a eyepatch, how common were eye related injuries during the Golden age of piracy?
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Why was Guangzhou being chosen as the headquarter and the founding place for Vietnam Restoration League and Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth League during the Warlord Era (1916-1928) instead of Hong Kong, Shanghai or anywhere else inside the southern region of China?
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What historical forces make prostitution legal and accepted in some areas and times, and illegal and immoral in others? Has there ever been a time and place with no stigma about it? NSFW
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Do Scottish people play an outsized role in British history (such as holding Military commands or being lucrative merchants) relative to the their population within the British isles?
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More Historiography than History but; Why is there such a large misconception on why Christopher Columbus was looking for a sea route to Asia?
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Was/Is 'Anti-Japaneseism' a legit thing? Japanese Red Army & the plan to 'extinguish Japanese ethnicity'
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