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With a civil war and 3 presidents assassinated between 1861-1901, was the US government viewed as 'shaky' by Americans and Europeans? What was outsider perspectives on the state of US govt in that period?	990
With sports segregation still going strong in the 1930's, how did the US Olympic team end up being unsegregated and how did white Americans respond to being represented by black athletes.	761
How is it the United States has remained coup d'état free? has there ever been any powerful 'internal' coup d'états?	727
When monarchies were the norm, did any contemporary political theorists write about the madness of appointing a child as king or queen?	494
Was Hitler corrupt like other dictators of the 20th century? Did he have personal accounts of billions of dollars? Did Hitler glean any personal wealth from being Fuhrer?	460
After losing most of their empire, did Spain try to make any "come-back" attempts to re-establish an international colonial empire in the later 19th, early 20th century? Did contemporary powerful Spaniards see the empire as a lost cause/past-era?	396
Was there a theoretical endgame to Apartheid in South Africa from the perspective of White South Africans?	312
Why is the Armenian Genocide in Turkey more well known and talked about than the Greek Genocide in Turkey, which happened concurrently?	278
What was the German plan if the French repelled their invasion in 1940?	215
During the great emigration wave from Europe in the 19th-early 20th century, how did people decide which country to emigrate to? Were there advertisements? What made someone pick Argentina, Canada, Brazil, Australia, South Africa or somewhere other than the United States?	165

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