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Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey, and Robert Hunter were all MKULtra test subjects at the Stanford test site, Hunter specifically volunteering in the hopes it would enhance his creative abilities - how did this happen?	10
At the time the Japanese invasion of SEA was being planned, was it a foregone conclusion in either country that the US would join a hypothetical Pacific War?	10
How did the place-name "Karlsbad" spread? In addition to being the name of at least one city each in Germany and the Czech Republic, it's the name of at least three cities in the USA and at least one in Canada.	10
Have dirt road surfaces always been prone to having vegetation in the center or did distinct tracks only appear after automobiles came to dominate traffic?	10
What role did universities and academia play in the rebuilding of Occupied Europe, after WWII? What about Japan and the Asian countries to industrialize and escape the middle income trap later, like South Korea, the Republic of China, and Singapore? (Perhaps two separate questions...)	10
How did evidence of the Tienanmen Square Massacre escape PRC suppression?	10
(Why) Did the prevalence of live music in the US decline in the late 20th century?	10
When and why did Islamic artists choose to visually depict Mohamed enflamed, with a halo, without supernatural adornment, and not at all?	10
When/How/Why did alchemy and chemistry diverge?	10
What methods are being used to investigate alleged mass graves at Canadian residential schools and why? What are the sensitivity and specificity for identifying human remains with ground penetrating radar? How can we know the age of the findings, where the sites were not always residential schools?	10

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