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The Ford Model T had its best selling years before being discontinued in 1927, why did Ford decide to radically change its business model and discontinue the Model T at the height of its popularity?	28
I read that in 1962, Associate Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Whittaker suffered a nervous breakdown and resigned from the court? What was the cause and what exactly was his “nervous breakdown”? How was it handled by the press, the government, and the Supreme Court?	28
In 1970 there were estimated 5,000 Iranian students at American universities, by 1975 it was 15,000, and by 1980 there were over 50,000 students. What was behind Iranians attending American universities in the 1970s and did this play a part in the Shah's downfall?	25
The traditional telling of the American Pilgrims is that they immediately adopted Native American crop staples like corn, beans, and squash, but is this accurate? How long did it take for other colonists to adopt Native diets?	25
How did the Bin Laden family get so wealthy in a developing country, and how was the wealthy, westernized family viewed in Saudi Arabia after it took a conservative turn in 1979?	25
It’s often said that early 1990s Russia was dominated by organized crime, but where did the organized crime come from? Did organized crime exist prior to the fall of the USSR, and if so, what was it like in the USSR?	23
Serbia seems to have had pretty poor relations with nearly all of Europe (EU/Russia/Albania) stretching back to the 19th century. What is the root of these poor relations? Is there something in their history that resulted in them being such an outsider on their own continent?	21
How did historians discover the existence of Indo-Greeks, or were the Indo-Greeks always within historical memory?	20
When was the appropriate time of day to go the theatre in Ancient Greece? If they were held during laboring hours, who went? If they were held at night, were they safe? Since theatre’s seemed to be mostly outdoors, what happened when the weather changed mid-show?	18
Were the Haida tribe of Haida Gawaii islands off British Columbia really the indigenous “Vikings” of Canada? What was their seafaring culture and warfare like?	15

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