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There were times after the Reconquista where Spain was especially vulnerable, for example: Napoleons invasion. Were there ever any plans by Morocco to collaborate with France in these invasions of Spain? What was going on in Morocco that made them so uninvolved from European wars besides piracy?	505
Did Mussolini or other high ranking Fascist Party members consider abolishing the papacy instead of granting them Vatican City in 1929? Did Atatürk or other CHP members consider granting the Osmanoğlu family a plot of land in Istanbul to continue the Caliphate instead of abolishing it in 1924?	145
How come Mussolini’s fascist party is considered the world’s first fascist party when the Committee of Union and Progress (Young Turks) which came to power in 1908, had very similar values and tendencies?	47
Islam prohibits the depiction of people. How did the Muslim world react to/reconcile the invention of cameras and cinema?	25
Talaat Pasha was assassinated in Berlin 1921 by the Armenian Revolutionary Front. The ARF received information of his whereabouts through a joint British and Soviet investigation. What was the dynamic like in the operation given the UK wouldn't recognize the USSR until 1924	17
Did Alsace-Lorraine have ethnic paramilitary violence under French or German rule during the Belle Époque a la 20th century Northern Ireland?	15
How did the French Revolution and/or Napoleonic wars effect music?	14
What was happening in the Ottoman Empire during the 30 years war? Were there any attempts to intervene?	13
Whats the reason a mountainous multi-ethnic and multi religious country like Switzerland became so successful and not, say Afghanistan?	13
One of Russia's claims to "third Rome" was the marriage of Byzantine princess Sophia Palaiologina and Ivan III. Sultan Orhan I of the Ottoman Beylik also married a Byzantine princess, Theodora Kantakouzene in 1346. Why doesn't Orhan's marriage pop up more often in Roman succession historiography?	12

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