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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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Dikko affair: What did the Israeli government hope to gain from helping to kidnap Nigerian former civil servant Umaru Dikko at his London home in 1984?
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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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Russia has sustained several large invasions from the West (1707, 1812, and 1941). But they all seem to have failed for similar reasons--overextended supply lines, scorched earth, mud, and cold weather. What lessons, if any, did successive invaders learn from previous failures?
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Why does it seem easier to confuse left and right (or east and west) than up and down (or north and south)?
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