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how is the fuel situation in communist area in china during the second world wars? is the depiction of communist leaders using car for their trip in some chinese tv series accurate?	2
If the mongols was the common ennemy in the east european myth, who is commin ennemy in the nordic myth?	2
Old chinese is so complicate in it's construction that if we put a modern no initiated chinese they could barely understand what was wrote even they kown each of the sinograph seperately, but what about the speaking? is it as hard as the writing? could a modern chinese understand an ancient chinese?	2
What is the context about Chang kai chek's quote " the sky cannot have two sun"?	2
The Hump has supplied china massively during the WW2 (it's a sort of lend lease right?), what was the counter part that nationalist china should give back to the allies once the ww2 finished? Do it operating during the chinese civil war? Do nationalist paying back after they retreated to Taiwan?	1
Why albania has that much land fort? What was the doctrine behind it?	1
is it true that decentralized government are more prompt to having a same ideology civil war?	1
I am a poor french aristocrat living in paris during the bourbon restauration. Me and my brother caught a more powerful noble abusing our sister in a soirée where she drink too much. What would be the best way to cleanse her honor?	1
On which parameters decide if someone has or not the physical requirement to be called as a soldier during ww2 on both side and how the governments proceed the "selection"?	1
why is it "la manche" and it's derivatives in frenche and a lot of continental european language but "english channel" in english?	1

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