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In his WW1 history "A World Undone", G.J. Meyer states that Canadian troops "... Never once failed to capture an objective, never were driven out of a position they had the opportunity to consolidate, and never once lost a gun". Is this viewed as correct? It seems astonishing if true.	197
At the end of WW2 the Soviet Union had one of the most powerful armed forces in history, a fully mobilized war industry and a ruthless and talented leadership. Did Stalin have any plans to attack the western-european countries that were subsequently put aside because of the US atom bomb?	155
How did the first European explorers find small, remote islands? Did they luckily stumble across them or was there more to it? Specifically, how did Cook discover the Hawaiian Islands?	37
What evidence and analysis forms the basis for the diverse opinions on the abusive (even rape) experience of T. E "Lawrence of Arabia" at Deraa?	10
What is the origin of the British "stiff upper lip" mentality? Did it really exist or is it more of a stereotype?	6
In Black Earth, Snyder argues that the Holocaust resulted from the loss of state structure rather than the power of the German state itself. Hitler is not a nationalist but an anarchist seeking a stateless world of racial competition. Is this view accepted by historians?	5
Did Stalin have designs on western Europe before the unveiling of the atomic bomb?	5
What impact did the American civil war have on the desire for and nature of Canadian Confederation, given that they occured so close together in time?	3
In the early days of European exploration and expansion across the world how closely were the locations of and routes to lucrative distant lands guarded by their discoverers? Would traders return from mysterious places 'loaded with treasures'?	2
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