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Charlemagne is usually credited for forming the Holy Roman Empire and the beginnings of modern day France, but how come France never remained part of the Holy Roman Empire?	1982
In The Godfather Part 2, when Vito migrates to the US from Sicily, Immigration changes his last name from Andolini to Corleone (the town he his from), did this ever actually happen to immigrants in the 19th or early 20th centuries?	190
In 19th century Europe, nationalism/pan-nationalism became a very popular idea amongst German, Italian, and Slavic territories and lead to the formations of Germany, Italy, and Yugoslavia. But why not Scandinavia?	146
Near the end of 2019's "JoJo Rabbit", the film makes a joke that the war is dire as Yorki's uniform is completely made out of paper. Is there any truth to Germany actually manufacturing paper uniforms near the end of the war or is this simply a joke of how desperate the German war effort became?	49
What was the main incentive/push in the late 19th and early 20th century to switch from steam driven engines to oil driven engines? And why was steam almost completely abandoned instead of continuously improved upon?	11
Before Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote the Communist Manifesto, was there ever any serious political theories on establishing a society that favored the common worker/peasant?	11
We all know about the American Civil War and that its biggest cause was slavery, but were there any other nations in history that fell into civil war over slavery or is the US unique in that regard?	10
Did the divided Germany suffer any military restrictions after WWII similar to WWI? Such as only being allowed to have a certain number of troops in their army or not being allowed to station troops in certain areas and if so, for how long? And do they still continue after their reunification?	10
If I were a factory worker in Russia in the early 20th century, how did my general workday, workplace, and pay function under Tsarist Russia and what changed when it became the Soviet Union?	6
One of the most interesting subjects of the immediate Post-WWII world is Operation Unthinkable which was the Allied battle plan to invade Soviet Occupied Eastern Europe, but did the USSR have a similar plan at all to invade Allied occupied Western Europe?	6

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