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What was the relationship between knight and horse?	330
I've heard that Mao Zedong, in order to combat drug addiction in China, gave addicts the option of rehab or death. Is this true? If so, how successful was it? And why?	323
Kim Syok’osu, a Korean woman that converted to Christianity, said “We Choson women lived under the oppression of men for thousands of years without having our own names. . . . For fifty years, I lived without a name” What was going on in Choson Korea? Did women really not have names?	302
The Jews of Kaifeng had been in China since the Song Dynasty. How did European missionaries and travelers react to this “discovery” when West began its first sustained, direct contact with China?	286
Was the West African slave trade really the benign, domestic foil to American chattel slavery it’s sometimes portrayed to be?	272
Was Dungeons and Dragons popular behind the Iron Curtain in countries like Poland, East Germany, and the Soviet Union? Or was it purely a Western phenomenon?	266
How did former SS officers and soldiers, the ones who weren’t tried and sent to prison or death, reintegrate into the general population? I can imagine that having a job 24/7 that required you to kill men, women, and children daily would leave some after effects.	263
Many dictatorships (Gaddafi, Tito, Hussein, Assad) end up devolving into violence and chaos in response to the leadership vaccum that occurs when the dictator either grows incredibly or dies. Why then did the dictatorships of Spain and South Korea not do the same when their dictators died?	247
The British conquest of India was in large part funded by Indian bankers who knew the East India Co. would reliably pay back whatever credit they took out. What became of those banking houses? What was their legacy post-independence?	240
There's a rich heritage of Arabic architecture in Spain and Portugal today. But after Reconquista, were there any efforts to get rid of Arabic art and architecture because it was made by "heathens" and to wipe the slate clean with a new Christian kingdom ?	235

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