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What was going on in upstate New York to make it such a cradle for new religious movements during the Second Great Awakening?

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When the Kuomintang was finally exiled from mainland China, how did the process of moving to Taipei look on the ground?

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There's some nonsense going around that the Saud royal family are actually Jewish? Where is this coming from and why is it bullshit?

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What exactly were the changes made to the Ottoman legal system that earned Suleiman the title "Kanuni"?

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I heard it said that the British lost their empire as part of the stipulations in their lend-lease deal with the US. To what extent is this true, if at all?

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I always hear from pundits that America "never lost a land battle in Vietnam." Is this true?

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I'm a socialist soldier of Republican Spain during the Spanish Civil War. How well versed am I likely to be in Marxist/socialist literature or theory?

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What makes Walpole the "first prime minister"? Was he doing the same thing as modern PMs? What did parliament have before those?

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William Howard Taft was the only American President to go on to be Chief Justice of the SCOTUS. Were there any landmark decisions that he presided over while in this office?

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How important was the intel of Richard Sorge to the ultimate outcome of the Battle of Moscow?

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What was going on in upstate New York to make it such a cradle for new religious movements during the Second Great Awakening?	19
When the Kuomintang was finally exiled from mainland China, how did the process of moving to Taipei look on the ground?	17
There's some nonsense going around that the Saud royal family are actually Jewish? Where is this coming from and why is it bullshit?	12
What exactly were the changes made to the Ottoman legal system that earned Suleiman the title "Kanuni"?	9
I heard it said that the British lost their empire as part of the stipulations in their lend-lease deal with the US. To what extent is this true, if at all?	9
I always hear from pundits that America "never lost a land battle in Vietnam." Is this true?	8
I'm a socialist soldier of Republican Spain during the Spanish Civil War. How well versed am I likely to be in Marxist/socialist literature or theory?	8
What makes Walpole the "first prime minister"? Was he doing the same thing as modern PMs? What did parliament have before those?	7
William Howard Taft was the only American President to go on to be Chief Justice of the SCOTUS. Were there any landmark decisions that he presided over while in this office?	6
How important was the intel of Richard Sorge to the ultimate outcome of the Battle of Moscow?	5