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What are five topics you can talk about for 30 minutes with zero prep?

Mine:

1. Practical CSS Golfing
2. The Two Things You Need to Know to Photoshop
3. Exploiting Physics (in Super Smash Bros.)
4. Personal Finance: Doing All the Things I Don't
5. Why You Should Play Monopoly Deal, Even Just Once

What are five topics you can talk about for 30 minutes with zero prep?

1. French Revolution leading into Napoleonic Wars
2. First and Second Punic Wars
3. The Peloponnesian War, The Syracusian Expedition 
4. The Gaelic Wars
5. The Meiji Restoration, subsequent reform of Tokugawa Shogunate into Meiji Era Modernized

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Agreed. Some of my other favs:

Oguri Tadamasa - On the Tokugawa Bakufu side, but was very forward looking and forward thinking, helped build the foundations of what is the naval shipyards in Yokosuka Shipyards today but contracting the French Govt to build ships (while Choshu and Satsuma sided with the English)