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Billy Graham was recorded as making extremely antisemitic comments to Nixon in 1972, but this tape was only released in 2002. What evidence existed of Graham's antisemitism before this? How common was this degree of antisemitism among Southern Evangelicals of his generation?	3441
The head of a South Indian university recently claimed Ancient India had stem cell technology and aviation, citing the Mahabharata. What's the origin of this recurring, bizarre notion of "hi-tech Ancient India"? How recent is it?	2508
How did "quicksand" become a ubiquitous death trap in adventure fiction?	421
What characterized "Peronism"? Was it socialist, fascist, distinctly South American, distinctly Argentinian, part of a broader phenomenon?	354
Did Martin Luther only become rabidly antisemitic later in life? If so, what prompted it?	322
I have only the vaguest understanding of Aboriginal Australians. What was their traditional social organization like? Did they have larger settled polities?	224
The Gallipoli campaign is almost always discussed in terms of British failures at various levels, but what were the Ottoman successes that led to the outcome?	192
Are there better contextualizations of the Red Army purges in the 1930's than "Stalin was paranoid"?	144
The Kingdom of Kongo was by all accounts a powerful 15th century polity. What did their social hierarchy and administration look like? What were the most important parts of their economy? How did the triangle trade change these things?	142
The religion of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is popularly described as a form of "Christian mysticism". How Christian were Hong Xiuquan and the Taiping? What did they really believe?	107

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