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How did wealthy Antebellum Southern women (or their pastors for that matter) confront - if they did at all - the fact that their husbands, fathers, and most of their sons were regularly committing adultery and sexual assault in their own households?	125
"Don’t you worry, <The British> are not going to shoot any of <the Easter Rising fighters>, they'd be much too afraid of America." Why would the British fear a response from the United States from executing Irish republican fighters in 1916, or rather, why would Irish republicans believe they would?	122
Would the majority of Roman gladii survive a single tough battle? Or a dory or similar infantry spear, for that matter?	121
Why was it that as early as the year 2000 that regime change in Iraq was part of the U.S. Republican Party platform, a year before the 9/11 attacks & the "Axis of Evil" & 3 years before the eventual war?	115
The Soviet Union had various programs and policies intending to protect and promote minority ethnic and culture groups. Did they work? Or was there also de facto or de jure Russification happening at the same time, particularly in the East?	113
Has the declassification initiative by the French Ministry of Defense in the last year regarding its nuclear weapons program presented any major surprises to researchers so far? What's the state of research on these newly available documents anyway?	108
How did ancient Mediterranean armies maintain supplies despite attritional equipment losses? Was a sword, shield, or spear that actually met an enemy expected to last more than one battle? How did large armies manage to rearm during long conflicts without modern mass production?	106
Did the British use of monolithic "ethnic" military units in far-flung colonial wars frequently foster enmity for particular ethnic/culture groups in areas far from their homeland? I'm thinking mainly of the Gurkhas and their deployment all over the place.	105
Did the economic elites of the Deep South largely remain the same people before and after the war? Were the landlords who benefited from sharecropping after the Civil War mostly the same people/families who owned the large antebellum slave plantations?	101
Pop culture imagines Australian aboriginal religion, ritual, & lifestyle as "frozen in time" for the 40,000 years of their existence. But do indigenous Australian narratives also? Do Indigenous histories & stories relate ancestral peoples, their development, extinction, & succession?	100

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