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368208 norwegians voted for independence in 1905 while only 184 voted against. Is such an overwhelming result without precedent in voting history? (99.95% / 0.05%)

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There's a wikipedia page detailing roman expeditions to sub-saharan africa. Do we know what romans thought about these lands and their inhabitants?

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Which factors contributed to Harry Truman recognizing the state of Israel against the advice of the state department?

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According to a wikipedia page, jews were 16% of the population in poland in 1900. Seeing as they mainly populated urban areas, does it mean they were a majority in many polish cities?

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English has a very large amount of loan words from french and latin. Were there historically any movements to push back again this influence?

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What caused the roman republic to never develop political parties while america did fairly quickly?

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Soviet Ethnologist Vozgrin claims that crimean goths interbred with crimean tatars and you could see this by certain scandinavian features such as taller height than others in the region. Is this a plausible theory?

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How did arab slavers/traders/explorers feel about sub-saharan african populations?

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To which degree are the various germanic peoples related to the speakers of proto-germanic?

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368208 norwegians voted for independence in 1905 while only 184 voted against. Is such an overwhelming result without precedent in voting history? (99.95% / 0.05%)	2159
There's a wikipedia page detailing roman expeditions to sub-saharan africa. Do we know what romans thought about these lands and their inhabitants?	138
Which factors contributed to Harry Truman recognizing the state of Israel against the advice of the state department?	34
According to a wikipedia page, jews were 16% of the population in poland in 1900. Seeing as they mainly populated urban areas, does it mean they were a majority in many polish cities?	23
English has a very large amount of loan words from french and latin. Were there historically any movements to push back again this influence?	2
What caused the roman republic to never develop political parties while america did fairly quickly?	2
Soviet Ethnologist Vozgrin claims that crimean goths interbred with crimean tatars and you could see this by certain scandinavian features such as taller height than others in the region. Is this a plausible theory?	1
How did arab slavers/traders/explorers feel about sub-saharan african populations?	1
To which degree are the various germanic peoples related to the speakers of proto-germanic?	1