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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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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 was it Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a peasant, was able to get Japanese nobles to swear loyalty to him?

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What were the circumstances behind the Republican candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower’s whopping 36% share of the black vote in 1955 Presidential Election?

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Why is it that so many Japanese lords swore fealty to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a commoner, in his conquest of Japan ?

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Was there any attempt in Taiwan to revive face tattooing after independence from Japan?

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How was rape handled in British Hong Kong? Specifically by British soldiers.

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Is there any consensus between historians on whether Czar Alexander I faked his own death?

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What were the beliefs of the right wing militants of Korea and the leftist militants around the time of the Korean War? What made it so hard to compromise?

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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?	8
How did the Soviet Union, a nation ostensibly built to transcend capitalism and market economies, go about building their currency?	8
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 was it Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a peasant, was able to get Japanese nobles to swear loyalty to him?	7
What were the circumstances behind the Republican candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower’s whopping 36% share of the black vote in 1955 Presidential Election?	7
Why is it that so many Japanese lords swore fealty to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a commoner, in his conquest of Japan ?	7
Was there any attempt in Taiwan to revive face tattooing after independence from Japan?	7
How was rape handled in British Hong Kong? Specifically by British soldiers.	7
Is there any consensus between historians on whether Czar Alexander I faked his own death?	7
What were the beliefs of the right wing militants of Korea and the leftist militants around the time of the Korean War? What made it so hard to compromise?	7