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After finishing Anne Applebaum’s book Iron Curtain, the Crushing Of Eastern Europe, I’m left with a question. Among the Warsaw Pact nations which country’s secret police instilled the most fear and hatred?

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How much Spanish would a American settler in Texas know when it was still part of Mexico?

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How fluent would the average settler of Texas be when it was still a territory of Mexico?

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In the 1960s and 70s African-Americans began to give their children more distinct, individualized names. In part to create an identity for themselves separate from the ones handed down by their ancestors slave owners. Did anything similar occur among mestizos in Latin America?

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Did oil and gas companies look at Edison General Electric the same way internet and phone companies today look at Google Fiber?

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Why did the British government give diplomatic recognition to the Confederate States during The American Civil War and not to the Taiping during the Taiping Civil War?

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Has Hawaii always had extremely high property values? Or is this a recent development? If so, when and why did it happen?

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Is it true that in the American Zone of Occupied Germany black soldiers were not permitted in the city of Berlin? If so, when did the exclusion end?

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How ahead, or behind, the curve was America in terms of things like suffrage compared to its contemporaries?

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During World War Two miscegenation between African-American soldiers and white European women is a common fear and issue with white American soldiers. Did French and English soldiers share this fear when it came to colonial soldiers?

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After finishing Anne Applebaum’s book Iron Curtain, the Crushing Of Eastern Europe, I’m left with a question. Among the Warsaw Pact nations which country’s secret police instilled the most fear and hatred?	1
How much Spanish would a American settler in Texas know when it was still part of Mexico?	1
How fluent would the average settler of Texas be when it was still a territory of Mexico?	1
In the 1960s and 70s African-Americans began to give their children more distinct, individualized names. In part to create an identity for themselves separate from the ones handed down by their ancestors slave owners. Did anything similar occur among mestizos in Latin America?	1
Did oil and gas companies look at Edison General Electric the same way internet and phone companies today look at Google Fiber?	1
Why did the British government give diplomatic recognition to the Confederate States during The American Civil War and not to the Taiping during the Taiping Civil War?	1
Has Hawaii always had extremely high property values? Or is this a recent development? If so, when and why did it happen?	1
Is it true that in the American Zone of Occupied Germany black soldiers were not permitted in the city of Berlin? If so, when did the exclusion end?	1
How ahead, or behind, the curve was America in terms of things like suffrage compared to its contemporaries?	1
During World War Two miscegenation between African-American soldiers and white European women is a common fear and issue with white American soldiers. Did French and English soldiers share this fear when it came to colonial soldiers?	1