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"We call him Sody Pop." Was a man who didn't drink likely to face ridicule in the American West around the time of the Homestead Acts? Was soda available?	20
Are there any significant challenges to the idea of Pax Cahokia? What's the state of literature on polities surrounding Cahokia ca. 900-1200 CE?	16
In the beginning of The Departed, Jack Nicholson's character says the Knights of Columbus "were real headbreakers [...] They took over their piece of the city." What was the association between the Knights of Columbus and Italian organized crime in 1960s/70s (maybe 40s/50s) Boston?	13
How did ghosts and other supernatural horror come to be as secular as they are today? How far back could the lady in the bath tub at the Overlook Hotel have existed in a story without an overt religious (esp. Christian) component?	11
What effects did Flood v. Kuhn have outside baseball free agency or sports in general?	6
What's the big deal with the Long Telegram and "X Article"? Was George Kennan seeing what no one else was seeing, or was he saying what no one else was saying? Why are these two documents so commonly (popularly) cited as such major originators of the United States's Cold War containment policy?	5
What's the state of sports history? How is it doing and what are the latest and greatest developments?	5
Did Vatican II have a significant effect on CCD attendence in the United States?	3
When did drug interdiction become a major focus of the US Coast Guard? What were the circumstances surrounding it?	3
Was there an intentional effort by General Groves and the rest of the Manhattan Project team to keep information about radiation sickness from those deciding whether to drop atomic bombs on Japan?	3

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