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Why were there so many Scandinavian and German immigrants in the American Midwest?

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How much truth is there to the story that Pope Clement VIII was about to ban coffee, then tasted it and said "This devil's drink is so delicious...we should cheat the devil by baptizing it"?

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Is it true that Aristotle told Alexander the Great that his army should boil water before drinking it?

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Why do so many countries from the former Soviet Union have such a strong chess tradition?

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How much truth is there to the story that Pope Clement VIII was about to ban coffee, then tasted it and said "This devil's drink is so delicious...we should cheat the devil by baptizing it"?

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To what extent did Al-Ghazali's doctrine of occasionalism effect Islamic science negatively?

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Could somebody who specialises in American history assess the historical accuracy of the article "Southern Slavery As It Was" written by two American pastors with Confederate sympathies?

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How accurate is the stereotype of British generals, in particular Field Marshal Haig, in WW1 having a callous disregard for human life?

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Are Keith Windschuttle's ideas on Australian Aboriginal and British interactions regarded as crazy, misguided, partially truthful, or what?

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Why were there so many pioneering German chemists in the 19th and 20th centuries?

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Why were there so many Scandinavian and German immigrants in the American Midwest?	1141
How much truth is there to the story that Pope Clement VIII was about to ban coffee, then tasted it and said "This devil's drink is so delicious...we should cheat the devil by baptizing it"?	187
Is it true that Aristotle told Alexander the Great that his army should boil water before drinking it?	107
Why do so many countries from the former Soviet Union have such a strong chess tradition?	59
How much truth is there to the story that Pope Clement VIII was about to ban coffee, then tasted it and said "This devil's drink is so delicious...we should cheat the devil by baptizing it"?	43
To what extent did Al-Ghazali's doctrine of occasionalism effect Islamic science negatively?	34
Could somebody who specialises in American history assess the historical accuracy of the article "Southern Slavery As It Was" written by two American pastors with Confederate sympathies?	31
How accurate is the stereotype of British generals, in particular Field Marshal Haig, in WW1 having a callous disregard for human life?	23
Are Keith Windschuttle's ideas on Australian Aboriginal and British interactions regarded as crazy, misguided, partially truthful, or what?	19
Why were there so many pioneering German chemists in the 19th and 20th centuries?	18