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Why didn't the Argentinians withdraw from the Falkland Islands as soon as they knew the British were coming?

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When did white bread begin to replace brown bread as the preferred choice of the British working classes? Why was brown bread more popular with workers before?

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In the early 15th century, Jan Hus tried to reform Christianity in the Bohemian Kingdom. Why is Catholicism the only sizeable Christian denomination in modern day Czech Republic, and why are Hussites as well as Protestant disciplines from neighbouring states practically non-existent?

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I read that, in the 1990s, Russian travellers in the North Caucasus republics would barricade themselves in their compartments to avoid bandits and thieves in the area. What advice or equipment would the train's steward have provided with me on boarding?

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Was spy fiction a popular genre in the Soviet Union? How did censors approach it in respect to the operations of their own secret services?

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In the early 1900s, how integrated were Colonial Post Offices and mail services of the British Empire to the British mainland service?

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What is the history of restaurants? Does the act of preparing food for others and selling the service to the consumer predate capitalism?

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The narrative I'm most familiar with about General Franco is that he was despised by the people of Catalonia and the Basque country. Is this mostly true? What can be said of his supporters in these regions?

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How true is it that ''British socialism owes more to Methodism than Marxism?"

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Was the Reformation as inevitable as Protestant historiography suggests?

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Why didn't the Argentinians withdraw from the Falkland Islands as soon as they knew the British were coming?	303
When did white bread begin to replace brown bread as the preferred choice of the British working classes? Why was brown bread more popular with workers before?	240
In the early 15th century, Jan Hus tried to reform Christianity in the Bohemian Kingdom. Why is Catholicism the only sizeable Christian denomination in modern day Czech Republic, and why are Hussites as well as Protestant disciplines from neighbouring states practically non-existent?	90
I read that, in the 1990s, Russian travellers in the North Caucasus republics would barricade themselves in their compartments to avoid bandits and thieves in the area. What advice or equipment would the train's steward have provided with me on boarding?	74
Was spy fiction a popular genre in the Soviet Union? How did censors approach it in respect to the operations of their own secret services?	73
In the early 1900s, how integrated were Colonial Post Offices and mail services of the British Empire to the British mainland service?	39
What is the history of restaurants? Does the act of preparing food for others and selling the service to the consumer predate capitalism?	32
The narrative I'm most familiar with about General Franco is that he was despised by the people of Catalonia and the Basque country. Is this mostly true? What can be said of his supporters in these regions?	32
How true is it that ''British socialism owes more to Methodism than Marxism?"	29
Was the Reformation as inevitable as Protestant historiography suggests?	28