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Was Isaac Asimov really the first author to come up with a 'Galactic Empire'?

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Robert McNamara died in 2009. Do we know what he thought of Microsoft Excel?

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Did the Nazi regime ban the existence of collegiate fraternities?

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How prevalent were war crimes during the American Civil War?

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Did black American servicemen serve in the Philippines during the Japanese Invasion in '41-'42?

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Why was Lebanon not part of the fighting during the First Arab-Israeli War?

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Did the USA have an federal legislation about state secession before the South secede in 1861?

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What is the current consensus about who committed the Reichstag fire in '33?

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What is the earliest known date in history for any event?

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Why did the middle-eastern-Islamic Empires/States get their Mamluk slave soldiers from, primarily, Central Asia, yet the south Asian Islamic Empires/States get their Habshi slave soldiers from Abyssinia?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Was Isaac Asimov really the first author to come up with a 'Galactic Empire'?	227
Robert McNamara died in 2009. Do we know what he thought of Microsoft Excel?	93
Did the Nazi regime ban the existence of collegiate fraternities?	15
How prevalent were war crimes during the American Civil War?	12
Did black American servicemen serve in the Philippines during the Japanese Invasion in '41-'42?	11
Why was Lebanon not part of the fighting during the First Arab-Israeli War?	10
Did the USA have an federal legislation about state secession before the South secede in 1861?	9
What is the current consensus about who committed the Reichstag fire in '33?	8
What is the earliest known date in history for any event?	5
Why did the middle-eastern-Islamic Empires/States get their Mamluk slave soldiers from, primarily, Central Asia, yet the south Asian Islamic Empires/States get their Habshi slave soldiers from Abyssinia?	4