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Is there scholarly consensus on the "Holmec incident"? Did Slovenian TO troops really shoot Yugoslav People's Army soldiers who were trying to surrender? If not, what really happened?

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Were the original members of the Frankfurt School involved in an intentional conspiracy to influence American culture for political ends?

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Did ancient Chinese groups consider themselves Chinese?

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Many of the oldest available texts deal with recording quantities (trade, debt, production, etc.). Why weren't charts invented until the 18th century?

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Did Ming-era Chinese recognize European Jesuits as belonging to the same religion as Nestorians who had arrived 900 years earlier?

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Why didn't Aramco, which was then owned by Americans, resist the 1973 oil embargo?

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How was the discovery of Peking Man received/reported in China? How has the interpretation of his remains changed over time?

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Was Seneca party to the Pisonian conspiracy to murder Nero?

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Pre-modern China: Did newly ascendant dynasties appoint all new administrators, magistrates, and military leaders to replace officials from the previous regime?

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Did Spartan citizens have an annual war against the helots?

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Is there scholarly consensus on the "Holmec incident"? Did Slovenian TO troops really shoot Yugoslav People's Army soldiers who were trying to surrender? If not, what really happened?	12
Were the original members of the Frankfurt School involved in an intentional conspiracy to influence American culture for political ends?	12
Did ancient Chinese groups consider themselves Chinese?	11
Many of the oldest available texts deal with recording quantities (trade, debt, production, etc.). Why weren't charts invented until the 18th century?	11
Did Ming-era Chinese recognize European Jesuits as belonging to the same religion as Nestorians who had arrived 900 years earlier?	10
Why didn't Aramco, which was then owned by Americans, resist the 1973 oil embargo?	10
How was the discovery of Peking Man received/reported in China? How has the interpretation of his remains changed over time?	10
Was Seneca party to the Pisonian conspiracy to murder Nero?	10
Pre-modern China: Did newly ascendant dynasties appoint all new administrators, magistrates, and military leaders to replace officials from the previous regime?	9
Did Spartan citizens have an annual war against the helots?	9