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When did the black population in the Western US get so large? My racist uncle said it was because LA was a large city, and that's where all the public benefits were. That didn't sound right, so I'm asking here. More specifically, why is it smaller in Arizona?	261
I heard someone say recently that Rome destroyed themselves because of moral decay and fiscal irresponsibility. This didn't sound right to me, and I wanted to hear what /r/AskHistorians had to say about it.	144
Why didn't Einstein get a Nobel prize for Relativity? Was the paper on the photoelectric effect really more important?	32
Did Germany and Japan have "exchange programs" like the Allies like America and Britain did, where some Germans served with some Japanese, or vice versa?	17
70 years ago today, scientists detonated the first atomic bomb. A mere 7 years later, the first thermonuclear bomb. Given the incredible amount of new knowledge gained by physicists over the last 70 years, why is it so hard for well-funded states to develop their own nuclear weapons today?	5
I hear political commentators talk shout metaphorically "beating the war drums" but how far back in history do we see literal war drums?	2
Okay, so Democrats used to be the ones against racial equality; the movement to prohibit alcohol was comprised of progressives. What other interesting examples of political shifts in history are there?	1
What was the transition like for the medical comuninity going from humors based medical theory to modern medicine? Was it abrupt, with a generation of established doctors objecting to the abandonment of humor theory, a gradual shift, or a gradual shift and then a turning point?	1
Why did Osama bin Laden bomb the World Trade in 1993?	0
Where did modern lawn grass come from? [Didn't know whether to post this in /r/askhistorians or /r/askscience, so I'm asking both. My bet is on /r/askhistorians giving the better answer.]	0

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