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How did Fiji end up having a large Hindi-speaking population when the island is miles and miles away from India?	35
Everyone knows what the stereotypical, cartoonish bomb looks like. But when did those really exist? How effective were they?	32
How much did DW Griffith's infamous movie "The Birth of a Nation" influence the rise of the KKK? Was it a major factor or simply a spark for a powder keg?	23
I heard that Booker T. Washington had a sort of "double agenda" where he would write certain activist letters and essays under a pseudonym. However, I can't seem to find any primary sources of this. Is this even true?	17
We know how the Native Americans reacted to seeing white skin for the first time, but how did they react to blacks? Also, did Native Americans and blacks ever share a common unity, much like blacks in the Irish did in the early 1900s?	17
For many generations, and slightly today, the Commonwealth has viewed English culture as refined. Did any Latin America Latin American countries feel the same way about Spain or Portugal?	14
Why caused American to only Annex Hawaii, but ignored its other island territories like Guam, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Wake Island, or the Virgin Islands?	14
In Supreme Court cases like Hirabayashi v. United States, and Korematsu v. United States (which challenged FDR's Executive Order 9066), what were the judges' reasons to uphold the decision? How did they justify that it was constitutional? How did other nations, particularly Japan, feel about this?	11
How effective was the quarantine practices during the Spanish Flu? Many die due to the strand, but did these practices prevent a much worse outbreak, or was the spread inevitable?	9
How confident are historians that Achilles and Patroclus were lovers? While there are hints of a very close relationship, were they just "super-tight bros"?	7

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