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What were Mexican-Indian relations in the Mexican Cession area? How did it compare to/contrast with Indian relations with New Spain and the USA?
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In the Top Gear Polar Special (BBC, 2007), it was joked that presenter James May would be the first person to reach the North Pole, who didn't want to be there? Did anyone go to the North Pole, despite not wanting to, before 2002? [the Arctic]
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Principalities vs Kingdoms: What was the practical value of being a kingdom, rather than a principality? What was to stop a Welsh or Monegasque (or any other) prince from declaring themselves a king?
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When the Nazis used concentration camp labor for specific private companies' needs, how did the needs of companies get processed to become a concentration camp "project?"
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How do we know that the "Hopewell" were a tradition or culture, rather than simply a trade network? Or, when does a trade network become a society unto itself in the eyes of historians and anthropologists? And did any recognizable language from them survive?
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Principalities vs Kingdoms: What was the practical value of being a kingdom, rather than a principality? What was to stop a Welsh or Monegasque (or any other) prince from declaring themselves a king?
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An opinion in "The Atlantic" described Donald Rumsfeld as "America’s worst secretary of defense," explicit comparison to Robert McNamara notwithstanding; what were the redeeming features of Robert McNamara's tenure?
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How did the African participants in the Transatlantic Slave Trade enslave people and how did it fit into their societies and economies? What happened to their societies and economies, when the Transatlantic Slave Trade wound down?
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Would a southeastern USA family farm with forty acres and a mule have been sustainable in the late 19th Century? At what point would it be unlikely to produce marketable surplus? At what point would it be unlikely to produce subsistence?
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