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What was the tallest occupied building constructed shortly before elevators were invented/used widely? I'd guess late 1800s or early 1900s?

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Why didn't plantains become as big a staple in American diets as the banana if both grow plentifully in South America?

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Is there any record of widespread destruction of archaeological sites in the early colonial period of North American expansion - particularly as Americans expanded westward?

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What was the tallest occupied building constructed shortly before elevators were invented/used widely? I'd guess late 1800s or early 1900s?	160
Why didn't plantains become as big a staple in American diets as the banana if both grow plentifully in South America?	18
Is there any record of widespread destruction of archaeological sites in the early colonial period of North American expansion - particularly as Americans expanded westward?	0