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How were Soviet computers programmed? Did the Soviet Union have their own “communist programming languages” and a soviet ASCII? Did they create an alternative “Soviet FORTRAN/C/ASSEMBLY”?	4684
Margaret Thatcher criticized the gov of Argentina for being a military junta during the Falklands War, yet she received support from Chile, which was also being run by a military dictatorship at the time. How did that work?	3157
META. How do historians make money? Are they employed outside of Academy by any industry?	1519
Mexico was ruled by the same party, the PRI, for over 70 years since the end of the mexican civil war until the year 2000. Including the entirety of the cold war. Did that present a concern to the US at some point?	470
Did the burning of the Alexandria library REALLY set back the human race by a thousand years?	165
The original iPod was released in 2001, does that mean the 20 year rule now allows the discussion of historical impacts of the iPod?	158
Did Vladímir Putin have a special role during the Collapse of the Soviet Union? How significant was he at that time in government and in events? Why was HE chosen by Yeltsin to be his successor?	113
Why did states in the us west became so much bigger than the east coast? Why were the original 13 colonies so small individually?	91
What were the plans of the Nazis for the US and North America? Did they want to colonize the US like “The man in the high castle”?	79
When the world recognized communist China as the “real China” why didn’t the US or their powers advocate for an independent republic of Taiwan, thus partitioning China, like they did with Korea, or attempted to do with Vietnam?	69

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