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Feb 16	comment	Is the steel pan the only acoustic musical instrument to be invented in the 20th century and used widely around the world? What's your definition of acoustic instrument? E.g. Hammond organs contain also mechanical parts to create the sound.
Feb 11	comment	Was the death toll in the atomic bombing of Japanese territory greater than was expected by the US? I have no source, but I remember a comment, that there were more victims then expected. The reason was not an underestimated explosion, but the US expected a lot of the later victims in shelters. Either there was no alert or the alert was ignored by the people.
Jan 4	comment	Historical examples of significant no man's lands between states in perpetual conflict In scifi.stackexchange.com I would post the neutral zone in Star Trek ;)
Jan 4	comment	Historical examples of significant no man's lands between states in perpetual conflict Something like Saudi–Kuwaiti neutral zone? But there was no conflict (at least I didn't detect one)
Dec 28	comment	Did Roman military require uniform weapons? see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_military_personal_equipment
Dec 20	comment	Scientists who became major political leaders Angela Merkel is physical chemist.
Dec 17	comment	Stalingrad - the German perspective? Until 30. April 2013 the Militärhistorische Museum der Bundeswehr (Dresden/Germany) shows an exhibition about Stalingrad pdf-flyer There is also a catalogue available: mhmbw.de/index.php/publikationen (Sorry, everything in German)
Oct 28	comment	Gengkhis Khan armor secret I have no evidence, but it could be silk. See also en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_armour
Oct 1	comment	What post 18thC countries rulers escaped to a remote/separate region and hung on while the country collapsed under revolution? Vichy France fits some parts. But many facts don't fit your question: No revolution but a war...
Aug 16	comment	Why was language not utilized to establish dominance throughout England 1066 AD–1360s CE? Maybe they thought: Who cares about the language of peasants.
Aug 6	comment	What Factors Have Led to the Duration of US Copyrights Continuously Increasing? Some information for the last extension can be found at Wikipedia: Copyright Term Extension Act
Aug 2	comment	Continent-wide common languages in human history Some more languages: Aramaic was a 'lingua franca' in old times. But there are also other possibilities: China had no common language (there was Mandarin, but I think it was never a common spoken language all over China), but there is a common Chinese writing.
Jul 27	comment	What was the first major historical event to be photographed? Work fine for me (actually tested).
Jul 9	comment	How much faster were the printing presses than hand writing? Difficult to answer. The first printed books contained also painted parts, e.g. the Initial
Jul 3	comment	How was life in the Iron Age different from life in the Middle Ages? There are more Christians.
May 30	comment	Is there any country(former colony) in the world that obtained independence and then again tried to join its colonist ruler? The Saarland was never really 'independant', but it was on the way. The 'Europäisches Saarstatut' planned 1954 to create an european independant area, but a plebiscite voted for a union with Germany.
Apr 30	comment	History of scientific regression The lost of the Library of Alexandria?
Apr 23	comment	At the end of WWII, were nazis working on any other super weapon besides V-2? On wikipedia is also an article about the Wunderwaffe. Including a reference to the German nuclear energy project
Apr 23	comment	At the end of WWII, were nazis working on any other super weapon besides V-2? I made an answer and linked an English article.
Apr 23	comment	At the end of WWII, were nazis working on any other super weapon besides V-2? The last experiments for the German atomic bomb where in Haigerloch. There as a little museum about it.