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I am aware that the Egyptian Royal families often wed brother and sister to each other to maintain the pure divinity of the bloodline through incest. Did this ever happen between parent and child (mother and son, father and daughter)?

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How did isolated Tibetan Buddhist monasteries feed themselves in the isolated mountains?

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How did radio programs determine how successful they were in the 1930s and 1940s?

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How stringent was the Ancient Spartan eugenics program?

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British historians with familiarity with the British Archives, are there files from the Elizabethan era that are classified never to be available to the public?

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Did MI6 ever try and make contact with Burgess, Maclean or Philby after they got to Moscow?

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At the beginning of the Cold War, was there any serious worry that the US military or the CIA or FBI would try and launch a coup d'état in Washington DC?

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What happened to the German double agents who were part of the Double Cross Program after WWII?

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Were there cultural difficulties when the East and West Germans began re-integrating?

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Why do US Marines guard US embassies instead of the US Army?

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I am aware that the Egyptian Royal families often wed brother and sister to each other to maintain the pure divinity of the bloodline through incest. Did this ever happen between parent and child (mother and son, father and daughter)?	117
How did isolated Tibetan Buddhist monasteries feed themselves in the isolated mountains?	108
How did radio programs determine how successful they were in the 1930s and 1940s?	102
How stringent was the Ancient Spartan eugenics program?	100
British historians with familiarity with the British Archives, are there files from the Elizabethan era that are classified never to be available to the public?	100
Did MI6 ever try and make contact with Burgess, Maclean or Philby after they got to Moscow?	97
At the beginning of the Cold War, was there any serious worry that the US military or the CIA or FBI would try and launch a coup d'état in Washington DC?	91
What happened to the German double agents who were part of the Double Cross Program after WWII?	87
Were there cultural difficulties when the East and West Germans began re-integrating?	86
Why do US Marines guard US embassies instead of the US Army?	79