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In a prominent ELI5 today, I read "Germany's economic hardships weren't due to the Treaty of Versailles...The Nazis claimed that it was all because of WWI and Versailles." This is different than what I'd heard anywhere else before. Is this true?

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How did the Russian Cossacks transform from rebels to bastions of nationalistic conservatism?

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If the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was so unpopular, why did it pass?

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How did the American public react the first 'comings out' of gay celebrities, and how did their public visibility impact the direction of the gay rights movement in the country?

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What are the roots of this distinctively monumental style of Soviet architecture?

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Did any members of the flight crews of Enola Gay or Bockscar ever publicly express opinions about their involvement in dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

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Don Quixote is often hailed as the first novel--a designation that confuses me given works like Gargantua and Pantagruel. Was Don Quixote considered different contemporaneously? If not, when did perspectives towards it shift, and how was it distinguished from earlier prose narratives?

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I'm looking for detailed WWI casualty data. Do you all know of any good historical data sources? (Is asking for data sources out of bounds?)

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How did thinkers in Feudal-era Europe view the Athenian democracy?

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At the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, Bob Dylan performed live with an electric guitar for the first time and was booed by the audience. My reading's found conflicting reasons why. Do we know what really happened and why?

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In a prominent ELI5 today, I read "Germany's economic hardships weren't due to the Treaty of Versailles...The Nazis claimed that it was all because of WWI and Versailles." This is different than what I'd heard anywhere else before. Is this true?	38
How did the Russian Cossacks transform from rebels to bastions of nationalistic conservatism?	38
If the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was so unpopular, why did it pass?	35
How did the American public react the first 'comings out' of gay celebrities, and how did their public visibility impact the direction of the gay rights movement in the country?	32
What are the roots of this distinctively monumental style of Soviet architecture?	23
Did any members of the flight crews of Enola Gay or Bockscar ever publicly express opinions about their involvement in dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?	22
Don Quixote is often hailed as the first novel--a designation that confuses me given works like Gargantua and Pantagruel. Was Don Quixote considered different contemporaneously? If not, when did perspectives towards it shift, and how was it distinguished from earlier prose narratives?	20
I'm looking for detailed WWI casualty data. Do you all know of any good historical data sources? (Is asking for data sources out of bounds?)	19
How did thinkers in Feudal-era Europe view the Athenian democracy?	16
At the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, Bob Dylan performed live with an electric guitar for the first time and was booed by the audience. My reading's found conflicting reasons why. Do we know what really happened and why?	16