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Thoughts on Jill Lepore's The Name of War?

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Just how close did the USA and USSR come to attacking each other with nuclear weapons during the Cold War?

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How much did the experience of the French Resistance against the Nazis inform French strategy against insurgencies in places like Algeria and Vietnam?

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Have Dixville Notch and other towns with a very small number of voters always been able to vote at midnight?

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How did a person's FICO score become such a dominant factor in decisions from lending money to renting an apartment?

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Western movies seem to have been a staple of American cinema from The Great Train Robbery (1903) to somewhere in the 1970s or 80s (with outliers like Unforgiven). What happened?

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How were individuals who suffered from epilepsy treated (medically and socially) by Native American tribes (any of them) prior to European settlement?

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Corsair Bombing Capabilities

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Greatest Armies Ever Assembled

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To what extent were McCarthy and HUAC drawing on existing public trepidation about communism vs creating that trepidation themselves?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Thoughts on Jill Lepore's The Name of War?	2
Just how close did the USA and USSR come to attacking each other with nuclear weapons during the Cold War?	2
How much did the experience of the French Resistance against the Nazis inform French strategy against insurgencies in places like Algeria and Vietnam?	2
Have Dixville Notch and other towns with a very small number of voters always been able to vote at midnight?	2
How did a person's FICO score become such a dominant factor in decisions from lending money to renting an apartment?	2
Western movies seem to have been a staple of American cinema from The Great Train Robbery (1903) to somewhere in the 1970s or 80s (with outliers like Unforgiven). What happened?	2
How were individuals who suffered from epilepsy treated (medically and socially) by Native American tribes (any of them) prior to European settlement?	2
Corsair Bombing Capabilities	2
Greatest Armies Ever Assembled	2
To what extent were McCarthy and HUAC drawing on existing public trepidation about communism vs creating that trepidation themselves?	2