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Genocide denial by public figures is mainstream in contemporary Republika Srpska (sub-federation of Bosnia & Herzegovina). Was public political endorsement of genocide denial a thing in the late 90s/early 00s?	4	AskHistorians
How did security & management/control of Saudi royal princes change after King Faisal was assassinated by his nephew in 1975?	4	AskHistorians
"It's a Wonderful Life" film director Frank Capra supposedly said in 1946 that one motivation for making the Christmas film was "to combat a modern trend toward atheism". What "trend toward atheism" would he have perceived in 1940s America?	4	AskHistorians
What was the general attitude towards the future in Asian countries like (China, Japan, or the Mughal Empire, & neighbors) from the 11th century to the 1850s? Did they believe that the world was inevitably coming to an end, possibly soon, the way Europeans seemed to?	4	AskHistorians
How did Christian missionaries react to N. American indigenous cultures that had traditions of female leadership roles? Were there attempts to integrate women into the proselytizing mission or were female leaders simply undermined & denigrated?	4	AskHistorians
What was the Indian intellectual awareness of & reaction to the wacky esoteric ideas cooked up in the 19th & early 20th century Western world that heavily incorporated Aryan & "Aryan" pre-history (e.g. Theosophy & later Nazi occultism & pseudohistory)?	4	AskHistorians
How did political ideological education/indoctrination in the People's Liberation Army and People's Armed Police change in response to the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests & massacre?	4	AskHistorians
What was Christmas & Hanukkah like in the Ottoman Empire, especially in Constantinople & Anatolia?	4	AskHistorians
Did the demographics/wealth level of visitors to national parks change with the proliferation of the automobile in the U.S., especially in Western states/territories? Did many people even visit far off (from Eastern cities) national parks before cars became affordable?	3	AskHistorians
With written sources, we can interrogate the the author or scribe and their background, snoop out interpolations and refer to other written sources for context. What do we do for oral history?	3	AskHistorians

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