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Why is New Orleans not as wealthy as other US port cities?

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In the 1860 US presidential election, Abraham Lincoln was kept off the ballot in the southern states. Was the reverse also true?

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Why did the German Parliament vote in favor of WW1?

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I read somewhere that Hitler didn’t want to hear the details of the Holocaust. Is that true?

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Why was the colonization of the Americas more deadly than the colonization of Africa?

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Have there been other examples of “party switching” around the world similar to how Democrats and Republicans flipped in the Civil Rights Era?

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What caused democracy to become the dominant form of government today?

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To what extent was the Sandinista-Contra conflict an ethnic one?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Why is New Orleans not as wealthy as other US port cities?	1318
In the 1860 US presidential election, Abraham Lincoln was kept off the ballot in the southern states. Was the reverse also true?	19
Why did the German Parliament vote in favor of WW1?	14
I read somewhere that Hitler didn’t want to hear the details of the Holocaust. Is that true?	5
Why was the colonization of the Americas more deadly than the colonization of Africa?	4
Have there been other examples of “party switching” around the world similar to how Democrats and Republicans flipped in the Civil Rights Era?	3
What caused democracy to become the dominant form of government today?	2
To what extent was the Sandinista-Contra conflict an ethnic one?	1