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Prior to the Ten-Day War in 1991, Slovenians spent months developing a PR strategy to ensure Western sympathy for their side. How important was Western support in that war?
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Today domesticated animals like dogs get cancer about as frequently as humans do, and dogs can get diabetes and other "diseases of modernity" too. Were people in pre-industrial societies aware of cancer (etc.) in non-humans?
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Arthur Scherbius was granted a US patent for the Enigma machine in 1928. Why wasn't this a major security flaw in the German cryptography effort?
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How did popular mores influence film censorship in Republican China? Was there an analog to the Hayes Code?
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US-Vietnam War: Did the Chinese consider major intervention (like in Korea)? Did the US consciously try to avoid provoking a Chinese intervention?
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After WW2 did Allied governments--as Italian singer Vasco Rossi alleges--"ban" Italian musical entertainers to promote performers from Allied countries?
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"A study by a Harvard University researcher estimates that 9.9% of the participation in the [Rwandan] genocidal violence was due to the broadcasts": To what extent did RTLM's incendiary radio broadcasts contribute to the killings? How seriously do historians take such analyses?
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After the dissolution of the USSR, why did Roscosmos keep using Baikonur as its primary spaceport instead of building a new one in Russia?
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