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Why did the split-level plan for family homes in the US become popular in the mid-20th century, and why did it fall out of style?

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Gobekli Tepe: Is there scholarly consensus about which possibilities remain on the table: (1) maybe we have the age of the Gobekli Tepe monumental architecture wrong; (2) maybe we're wrong about when agriculture began in that area; (3) the architecture truly predates agriculture

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Why is Nigeria's population so high, compared to other African countries with similar land areas?

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In the British Empire, how did non-British aristocracies of lands within the empire fit into the peerage? Were there rules for determining whether a Zulu king or an Indian rajah or nizam outranked a British earl or duke?

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Is it really fair to characterize the Aztec religion as being particularly cruel and bloodthirsty, or was it not bad as is commonly assumed?

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Had the United States not annexed the Kingdom of Hawaii, is it likely that some other power would have done so?

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Are modern Greeks, Egyptians, etc. mostly descended from the ancient populations of those areas?

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Why didn't the Polynesians colonize Australia?

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Did the Nazi regime have any particular language policy (such as promoting the use of particular dialects of the German language over others)?

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To what extent did pseudoscience and occultism influence the policy of Nazi Germany (apart from racism and antisemitism)?

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Why did the split-level plan for family homes in the US become popular in the mid-20th century, and why did it fall out of style?	1938	AskHistorians
Gobekli Tepe: Is there scholarly consensus about which possibilities remain on the table: (1) maybe we have the age of the Gobekli Tepe monumental architecture wrong; (2) maybe we're wrong about when agriculture began in that area; (3) the architecture truly predates agriculture	1615	AskHistorians
Why is Nigeria's population so high, compared to other African countries with similar land areas?	1513	AskHistorians
In the British Empire, how did non-British aristocracies of lands within the empire fit into the peerage? Were there rules for determining whether a Zulu king or an Indian rajah or nizam outranked a British earl or duke?	1054	AskHistorians
Is it really fair to characterize the Aztec religion as being particularly cruel and bloodthirsty, or was it not bad as is commonly assumed?	829	AskHistorians
Had the United States not annexed the Kingdom of Hawaii, is it likely that some other power would have done so?	660	AskHistorians
Are modern Greeks, Egyptians, etc. mostly descended from the ancient populations of those areas?	386	AskHistorians
Why didn't the Polynesians colonize Australia?	275	AskHistorians
Did the Nazi regime have any particular language policy (such as promoting the use of particular dialects of the German language over others)?	245	AskHistorians
To what extent did pseudoscience and occultism influence the policy of Nazi Germany (apart from racism and antisemitism)?	245	AskHistorians