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Was the Soviet Union ever seriously planning to invade Western Europe?

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In A Land Before Time, dinosaurs are depicted as existing in highly mixed cohesive interspecies communities. Was there really this much tolerance and multispecism among dinosaurs of that period?

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In "The Madness of King George" many parliamentarians are depicted as having been (semi-openly) very pro-American. Is this accurate?

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What's the longest continuous period of time that the US military has spent not involved in some sort of conflict somewhere on Earth?

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How did Reginald Dyer have any popular support after the Amritsar Massacre?

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Were the Comanche anything like they are portrayed by Larry McMurtry in his 4 Lonesome Dove novels?

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In the early 60s, would it have been probable that the US could have achieved a political solution to the Vietnam conflict?

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Did the pre-modern Chinese ever cross oceans?

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What wars should have happened but didn't? And why?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Was the Soviet Union ever seriously planning to invade Western Europe?	1086
In A Land Before Time, dinosaurs are depicted as existing in highly mixed cohesive interspecies communities. Was there really this much tolerance and multispecism among dinosaurs of that period?	886
In "The Madness of King George" many parliamentarians are depicted as having been (semi-openly) very pro-American. Is this accurate?	41
What's the longest continuous period of time that the US military has spent not involved in some sort of conflict somewhere on Earth?	32
How did Reginald Dyer have any popular support after the Amritsar Massacre?	27
Were the Comanche anything like they are portrayed by Larry McMurtry in his 4 Lonesome Dove novels?	15
In the early 60s, would it have been probable that the US could have achieved a political solution to the Vietnam conflict?	7
Did the pre-modern Chinese ever cross oceans?	2
What wars should have happened but didn't? And why?	1