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Why is the Gallipoli campaign so pivotal to Australian and New Zealand history, when it was failed to achieve its objectives and cost so many ANZAC lives?

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In the days before fax machines and email, how did national and international newspapers publish their stories?

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On D-day, why were so many soldiers placed directly in the fire of machine guns? And how did enough of them manage to survive and win the battle?

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Did the Third Amendment to the US Constitution stop the quartering of troops from becoming a problem in modern-day America? Or were there other factors?

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I own a general store on the American frontier in the 1840. My business fails and I can't pay back my creditors. What's to keep me from skipping town?

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Is there any realistic way that slavery could have been abolished in the U.S. without war? Or was violent conflict inevitable, for all intents and purposes?

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Why did both sides of the conflict in WWI anticipate the war would be over by Christmas? Given that Austria-Hungary knew Serbia was allied with Russia, which was allied with France and England; and Serbia's allies knew that A-H was allied with Germany.

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Why do historians care about the dates of Shakespeare's plays? What difference does their exact date make?

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Would the average soldier in the American Revolutionary War have read the Declaration of Independence?

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There were other Civil Rights Acts before the one that LBJ signed in 1964. Why were these previous Acts apparently unable to prevent Jim Crow laws?

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Why is the Gallipoli campaign so pivotal to Australian and New Zealand history, when it was failed to achieve its objectives and cost so many ANZAC lives?	7
In the days before fax machines and email, how did national and international newspapers publish their stories?	6
On D-day, why were so many soldiers placed directly in the fire of machine guns? And how did enough of them manage to survive and win the battle?	6
Did the Third Amendment to the US Constitution stop the quartering of troops from becoming a problem in modern-day America? Or were there other factors?	6
I own a general store on the American frontier in the 1840. My business fails and I can't pay back my creditors. What's to keep me from skipping town?	5
Is there any realistic way that slavery could have been abolished in the U.S. without war? Or was violent conflict inevitable, for all intents and purposes?	5
Why did both sides of the conflict in WWI anticipate the war would be over by Christmas? Given that Austria-Hungary knew Serbia was allied with Russia, which was allied with France and England; and Serbia's allies knew that A-H was allied with Germany.	5
Why do historians care about the dates of Shakespeare's plays? What difference does their exact date make?	5
Would the average soldier in the American Revolutionary War have read the Declaration of Independence?	4
There were other Civil Rights Acts before the one that LBJ signed in 1964. Why were these previous Acts apparently unable to prevent Jim Crow laws?	4