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[WP] Graduates of Harvard's Math 55 class are immediately employed by the NSA because they are too dangerous to allow them to go anywhere else. Graduates of Oxford's Experimental Psychology program are the same--you just received your degree and have some interesting job offers in your email inbox.

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When televisions began selling in the 1930s until 1950, what programs were available?

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[WP] "You've each been selected for this mission because you're unknown to the enemy and you each have a special skill. Professor Hawking, John Leslie, Phil Neville, the Wu-Tang Clan, Usher, the Sugar Puffs Monster, and Daniel Day-Lewis, welcome to Operation Circle of Madness."

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[WP] One day a scullery maid receives a life-changing inheritance which draws her into the high society she has always envied … and into the affections of a young Lord, someone she has always loved from afar. The young lord’s older brother thinks their courtship is a mistake and tries to stop them.

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[WP] It's late at night, and you ran to catch the last bus coming home from work. Just as you arrive it pulls away, and you are alone on a dark foggy road. You sit on the bus bench when you hear horse hooves clomping. A black 19th-century carriage drives up and stops. "Need a ride?" says a voice.

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Why was Tsar Nicholas II so adamant against some sort of constitutional change and general modernization in Russia?

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What caused the post-Soviet Economic collapse of Russia from 1990-1994?

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Did the West use loans and debt as a weapon to undermine the economies of the Warsaw Pact?

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In line infantry tactics (17th to 18th century European warfare) what provisions were made for wounded soldiers?

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It seems that the Victorian Era distorted our view of history, especially of women. Is there evidence of this?

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[WP] Graduates of Harvard's Math 55 class are immediately employed by the NSA because they are too dangerous to allow them to go anywhere else. Graduates of Oxford's Experimental Psychology program are the same--you just received your degree and have some interesting job offers in your email inbox.	47	WritingPrompts
When televisions began selling in the 1930s until 1950, what programs were available?	47	AskHistorians
[WP] "You've each been selected for this mission because you're unknown to the enemy and you each have a special skill. Professor Hawking, John Leslie, Phil Neville, the Wu-Tang Clan, Usher, the Sugar Puffs Monster, and Daniel Day-Lewis, welcome to Operation Circle of Madness."	45	WritingPrompts
[WP] One day a scullery maid receives a life-changing inheritance which draws her into the high society she has always envied … and into the affections of a young Lord, someone she has always loved from afar. The young lord’s older brother thinks their courtship is a mistake and tries to stop them.	45	WritingPrompts
[WP] It's late at night, and you ran to catch the last bus coming home from work. Just as you arrive it pulls away, and you are alone on a dark foggy road. You sit on the bus bench when you hear horse hooves clomping. A black 19th-century carriage drives up and stops. "Need a ride?" says a voice.	44	WritingPrompts
Why was Tsar Nicholas II so adamant against some sort of constitutional change and general modernization in Russia?	43	AskHistorians
What caused the post-Soviet Economic collapse of Russia from 1990-1994?	43	AskHistorians
Did the West use loans and debt as a weapon to undermine the economies of the Warsaw Pact?	43	AskHistorians
In line infantry tactics (17th to 18th century European warfare) what provisions were made for wounded soldiers?	43	AskHistorians
It seems that the Victorian Era distorted our view of history, especially of women. Is there evidence of this?	43	AskHistorians