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Why has the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan been in power almost continually since 1955?

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Before the Columbian exchange, what were the cuisines like in India, Sichuan, Malaysia and other places where chillies are now an integral ingredient?

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The Qing Dynasty novel ''Flowers in the Mirror" from 1827 has a fantasy story about men traveling to a world where the gender roles of men and women are reversed. What was the wider context of its writing and was there a social movement like the suffragettes demanding gender equality at the time?

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When was the moon first conceptualized as a very large object made out of rock?

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Did the ancient Romans have museums?

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What was the C20th cultural history of country and western music in Native American communities?

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When did fictional secondary worlds that weren't Earth begin to be used in the make believe games of children?

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People bred animals for inherited traits throughout human history creating animals of the same species that were massively different from one another. How did they theorise what they were doing without any idea about evolution?

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Were the civil service exams of Imperial China a standardized system of testing across the whole empire? If so how was grading handled and who was it done by in order to be consistent and rigorous?

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Has anyone ever actually kept a tank of sharks or carnivorous fish for the purpose of feeding enemies or criminals to them?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Why has the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan been in power almost continually since 1955?	251
Before the Columbian exchange, what were the cuisines like in India, Sichuan, Malaysia and other places where chillies are now an integral ingredient?	117
The Qing Dynasty novel ''Flowers in the Mirror" from 1827 has a fantasy story about men traveling to a world where the gender roles of men and women are reversed. What was the wider context of its writing and was there a social movement like the suffragettes demanding gender equality at the time?	67
When was the moon first conceptualized as a very large object made out of rock?	66
Did the ancient Romans have museums?	36
What was the C20th cultural history of country and western music in Native American communities?	9
When did fictional secondary worlds that weren't Earth begin to be used in the make believe games of children?	7
People bred animals for inherited traits throughout human history creating animals of the same species that were massively different from one another. How did they theorise what they were doing without any idea about evolution?	5
Were the civil service exams of Imperial China a standardized system of testing across the whole empire? If so how was grading handled and who was it done by in order to be consistent and rigorous?	4
Has anyone ever actually kept a tank of sharks or carnivorous fish for the purpose of feeding enemies or criminals to them?	2