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Popular media commonly depicts Jews working with Italian organized crime. Is this at all accurate, and when and how did any such association start?

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In the 90s, there was a large and active environmental movement, to the point where there was a cartoon based entirely on environmentalism. Today, I barely see any real environmental messaging in media. What changed and why?

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Why was Japan able to rapidly modernize and avoid European colonization efforts, while the rest of SE Asia seems to have been carved up by the Europeans in pretty short order?

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The plays and works of earlier times are still popular and influence current works; how would modern works be viewed by our cultural ancestors?

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How accurate is this Twitter thread about the origins and history of Halloween?

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The Court Jester (1956 film) features usurpation, marriage alliances, dueling, knightly trials, a foreign jester--how realistic is any of this?

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Popular media commonly depicts Jews working with Italian organized crime. Is this at all accurate, and when and how did any such association start?	4
In the 90s, there was a large and active environmental movement, to the point where there was a cartoon based entirely on environmentalism. Today, I barely see any real environmental messaging in media. What changed and why?	2
Why was Japan able to rapidly modernize and avoid European colonization efforts, while the rest of SE Asia seems to have been carved up by the Europeans in pretty short order?	1
The plays and works of earlier times are still popular and influence current works; how would modern works be viewed by our cultural ancestors?	1
How accurate is this Twitter thread about the origins and history of Halloween?	1
The Court Jester (1956 film) features usurpation, marriage alliances, dueling, knightly trials, a foreign jester--how realistic is any of this?	1