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Did Churchill really pass Stalin a note regarding the demarcation of the spheres of influence in Europe?

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What is the history of mountain warfare? When did specialized mountain warfare units come into use?

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Why did Yugoslavia join the Axis? Surely their leaders knew that there were numerous dissenting voices? And why did it leave the Axis? Surely they knew that the Axis wouldn't tolerate that either?

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Democratic National Chairman in 1940 accused the Republicans of conducting the most shameful campaign since Lincoln. What was wrong with Lincoln's campaign?

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After Christine Collins was improperly committed to a psychiatric ward, were the doctors disciplined? Was the public's faith in psychotherapy shaken?

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What was the movement to decriminalize and eventually legalize suicide by the British crown?

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Churchill talked about his black dog days, was mental illness as stigmatized then as it is now?

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Was it common in the thirties and forties for armies to shoot dead enemy soldiers?

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Is the number of first generation immigrants today significantly higher than first generation immigrants a 100 or 150 years ago?

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In "I, Claudius", Livia supposedly found slave girls for Augustus to sleep with. Is this true? NSFW

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Did Churchill really pass Stalin a note regarding the demarcation of the spheres of influence in Europe?	19
What is the history of mountain warfare? When did specialized mountain warfare units come into use?	18
Why did Yugoslavia join the Axis? Surely their leaders knew that there were numerous dissenting voices? And why did it leave the Axis? Surely they knew that the Axis wouldn't tolerate that either?	16
Democratic National Chairman in 1940 accused the Republicans of conducting the most shameful campaign since Lincoln. What was wrong with Lincoln's campaign?	13
After Christine Collins was improperly committed to a psychiatric ward, were the doctors disciplined? Was the public's faith in psychotherapy shaken?	12
What was the movement to decriminalize and eventually legalize suicide by the British crown?	12
Churchill talked about his black dog days, was mental illness as stigmatized then as it is now?	9
Was it common in the thirties and forties for armies to shoot dead enemy soldiers?	9
Is the number of first generation immigrants today significantly higher than first generation immigrants a 100 or 150 years ago?	9
In "I, Claudius", Livia supposedly found slave girls for Augustus to sleep with. Is this true? NSFW	8