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The eradication of wide-spread diseases in the world during the late 1800's through the early 1940's is always an interesting topic.

The Irish potato famine and its reaching effects is a tremendous thing to read about.

The decline and modernization of the Ottoman Empire is a fascinating subject to me, mostly because the Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and longest lasting empires in world history; one which almost a century after dissolution still impacts our world heavily today.