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When the UK initiated research on breaking the sound barrier, was it purely a "blue sky" project or did they expect it to improve the high speed performance of combat aircraft during the war? Were any WWII airplane designs influenced by the project's research?	7
What made the heavy fabric produced in Duffel so superior, it was worth trading internationally for? Why couldn't fabric makers elsewhere replicate the quality?	7
What's the origin of the accusations made in Article 28 of the Hamas Charter?	7
When did demographers/public health officials/actuaries/whomever begin to notice the major decline in infant and child mortality? How did societies react to it becoming a sustained effect?	7
Ableness and Disability: How were minor physical impairments regarded in Nazi Germany/Nazi ideology? It's very interesting that Felix Wankel was too near-sighted to get a driver's license, yet was Obersturmbannführer in the SS and commandant of the Hitler Youth.	6
How did the IJA collect, sort, distribute, and maintain the stolen bicycles used by their bicycle infantry in the Invasion of British Malaya? How many bicycles did they steal and use?	6
Were the countries that were the primary slave exporters for the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade static or dynamic across its history and how did the beginning, height, and end of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade affect their economies?	6
How competitive would a US South family farm with forty acres and a mule have been in the late 19th Century?	6
What happened to the Hohokam? Who did later tribes in Hohokam territory think the Hohokam were?	6
How did China become the figurative antipode for the entire "West" (as in, "Dig a hole to China"), despite being the antipode for an un-influential portion of South America, in reality?	6

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