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Modern jokes aside, what’s the latest known instance of English people (presumably nobility and/or military) still being sincerely sore about the loss of the 13 colonies?

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Were the effects of WWII AA/flak rounds falling back to earth ever documented? One might assume that there exist today areas that are or were littered with all the rounds that would have come back, never having hit their target.

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How accurate was the prospector segment of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs? Specifically the actual method he used to zero in on the “pocket.”

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How far back does the history of modern street address systems, as in numbered buildings on named streets, go? It seems logical that roads bore names long before numbers came in, but how did the combination of the two develop?

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Were there ever any studies on the effects of nuclear war on parts of the world other than the US and the USSR/Europe, like rural South America or Africa? Would such areas have had higher survivability in the event of a US-USSR nuclear war?

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Has there even been an instance of benevolent, or at least not-completely-exploitative, colonization?

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Modern jokes aside, what’s the latest known instance of English people (presumably nobility and/or military) still being sincerely sore about the loss of the 13 colonies?	1062
Were the effects of WWII AA/flak rounds falling back to earth ever documented? One might assume that there exist today areas that are or were littered with all the rounds that would have come back, never having hit their target.	38
How accurate was the prospector segment of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs? Specifically the actual method he used to zero in on the “pocket.”	38
How far back does the history of modern street address systems, as in numbered buildings on named streets, go? It seems logical that roads bore names long before numbers came in, but how did the combination of the two develop?	21
Were there ever any studies on the effects of nuclear war on parts of the world other than the US and the USSR/Europe, like rural South America or Africa? Would such areas have had higher survivability in the event of a US-USSR nuclear war?	5
Has there even been an instance of benevolent, or at least not-completely-exploitative, colonization?	2