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Khrushchev and the USSR in the end of the Cuban missile crisis was contented to let the US appear as the "winners" of the conflict even though there was a mutual backing down. Why?

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What were the typical sleeping times before the invention of electricity? Or even better, what is the oldest historic reference to the sleeping patterns of a culture?

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How likely would it be to not have any record of the existence of a cargo ship between the 1940-50s? [Ref. the mystery of the SS Ourang Medan]

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Khrushchev and the USSR in the end of the Cuban missile crisis was contented to let the US appear as the "winners" of the conflict even though there was a mutual backing down. Why?	255
What were the typical sleeping times before the invention of electricity? Or even better, what is the oldest historic reference to the sleeping patterns of a culture?	28
How likely would it be to not have any record of the existence of a cargo ship between the 1940-50s? [Ref. the mystery of the SS Ourang Medan]	2