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The late 19th century saw the creation of Esperanto, an effort to build an artificial, universal human language to better enable international communication. Was there ever any corresponding effort among deaf peoples to create a universal sign language?	28
What was the effect of Alexander's conquests on Macedonia itself?	27
My understanding is that in early modern Europe, Sparta rather than Athens was admired for its constitution due to its long-term political/social stability. Was there any political or philosophical movement calling for adopting a Spartan-like system of government, such as dual-kingship?	27
What was the environmental record of Cold War-era socialist countries like?	24
Has there ever been such thing as a horse 'film star'? That is, a horse with an unusually long or significant series of appearances in movies. Would such a horse have been recognisable to the public? Would they have had fans in their own right?	24
How far was there a concept of privacy in medieval/early modern cities? How often would people be alone? Did they want to be alone?	24
How did the Second World War affect the economic development of Pacific Islands?	24
New South Wales began to be colonised in 1788, shortly before Britain became embroiled in two decades of global conflict against France. How did these wars shape the development of the new penal colony?	23
There's a stereotype that former Nazis often ended up being employed in East German security services, presumably as the required skill sets were overlapping. But how far was this actually true in reality? How was it perceived or justified internally?	23
How did ancient writers, philosophers, scholars etc handle citations? Did they have any systemic norms regarding the acknowledgement of sources or other people's ideas? Conversely, did they have any notion of plagiarism or misattribution?	23

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