Stacks Created on iPhoto Library Import

After I finished importing an iPhoto Library, I noticed that I have some photos that are in Stacks.
The one difference I noticed was the keyword differences.
iPhoto Externally Edited
iPhoto Original
For some of these stacks, that all that appears to be different. The photos look the same.
For others, it simply seems to be one is rotated and one is not.
Is this normal?
Why would I want or need these stacks?
Also, do I have one or two masters? I'm assuming, since this is a Stack, that I must have two Masters. But I'm not sure how to tell. This is a Managed Library, so there are no referenced files that come up and Locate in Finder is grayed out.

Lots of different ways depending on how you created the alternate versions and how you name your images. BTW this holds for referenced as well as managed masters, makes no difference.
Easiest way, if you haven;t renamed the versions then they will all have the same version name with - version N added:
If you have automatically stack new version set then all the version will be in a stack.
You can filter for the filename, remember while the versions can be named anything all versions from a single master will have the same filename so
Select an image and look at its metadata for the filename, same rational as above.
MIght be move but these are the most common.

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