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In "La Nouvelle Héloïse" of Rousseau, de Wolmars are seen as model parents because of their proximities with their children, why the fact they are close to their children a sign of virtue in the 18th century France?	7
Do the collapse of soviet union having direct impact with the rise of the talibans?	7
Bonjour Messieurs Mesdames, French exchange student here, one of my classmate asked me about the origin of the "Baguette" and i'm struggling to give an appropriate answer to his question, what should i told him?	7
iron is more complicated to obtain than bronze during most of the human history, but when forging coins, why most of the countries choose to use bronze coin silver coin then gold coin but completely skip iron coin?	7
why Chinese emperors don't use numerical nomination for their title? like the XIV of Louis XIV for the french king?	7
The "Deutsch pachtebiet kiautschou" (actual Qingdao) become Japanese after the Treaty of Versailles. How did China not get it back despite it is one of the winner of the war, why did the japanese get it and how china negotiated with japan to get it back in 1923?	7
the chinese documentary the oriental battlefield ep 7 at time stamp 8min 11 claim that the shandong resistance base during all the duration of the sino japanese war provided more than 130000 tael of golds to yan an, how much gold is that in today's value and is this number realistic?	6
How to explain belgium almost have no debt towards foreign country after the ww2?	5
There is mention of "Republic of china's anthem was elected best anthem world wide during the 1936 berlin Olympics" in some roc documents, i can't find any current western sources that has it mentionned, has anyone some context about this claim?	5
How frequent is Western Europe hit by locust plague during the middle age?	5

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