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I'm a member of the Okhrana, the Tsarist secret police, after the fall of the Romanov Dynasty, what happens to me? And the other members of my organization now?

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Today, interpreters for the UN have years and years of training behind them before stepping into that role. But during earliest meetings of the United Nations, how many well-trained interpreters were there? Where there any problems with miscommunication?

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Have bad teeth always been considered unattractive? Or is it a 20th century development?

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After Josef Tito's split with Stalin, why didn't the USSR invade Yugoslavia with Warsaw Pact troops like they did in Prague and Hungary?

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How much control did the Bolsheviks really have over Russia after the Russian Civil War? How did they go about taking over Russia?

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Tobacco was originally a cash crop grown and exported from the English colony of Virginia in the 1700’s. How and when did it end up in a country as distant and far away as Russia?

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How did the Soviet Union, a nation ostensibly built to transcend capitalism and market economies, go about building their currency?

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How did Japan go about bringing electricity to its cities and towns? Did they hire westerners to teach them how to use it in order to make their own companies?

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Did America “plan” to step into the role of global superpower by the end of World War II? Or was there any talk of going back to the isolationist policies of the past and leave Europe to its own devices?

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Historically, what has the relationship been like between LGBTQ African Americans and African American churches?

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I'm a member of the Okhrana, the Tsarist secret police, after the fall of the Romanov Dynasty, what happens to me? And the other members of my organization now?	9
Today, interpreters for the UN have years and years of training behind them before stepping into that role. But during earliest meetings of the United Nations, how many well-trained interpreters were there? Where there any problems with miscommunication?	9
Have bad teeth always been considered unattractive? Or is it a 20th century development?	9
After Josef Tito's split with Stalin, why didn't the USSR invade Yugoslavia with Warsaw Pact troops like they did in Prague and Hungary?	8
How much control did the Bolsheviks really have over Russia after the Russian Civil War? How did they go about taking over Russia?	8
Tobacco was originally a cash crop grown and exported from the English colony of Virginia in the 1700’s. How and when did it end up in a country as distant and far away as Russia?	8
How did the Soviet Union, a nation ostensibly built to transcend capitalism and market economies, go about building their currency?	8
How did Japan go about bringing electricity to its cities and towns? Did they hire westerners to teach them how to use it in order to make their own companies?	8
Did America “plan” to step into the role of global superpower by the end of World War II? Or was there any talk of going back to the isolationist policies of the past and leave Europe to its own devices?	8
Historically, what has the relationship been like between LGBTQ African Americans and African American churches?	8