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Were the Assyrians and the Akkadians different people or the same people under a different name?

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How much iron ore could a medieval miner extract per day? [closed]

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What are the intellectual roots of the "French Republican identity" pursuit?

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Why would this word have been an unsuitable name in Communist Poland? Is it because it's a racial slur?

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What strategic value did Christianity hold for Constantine that made him convert to Christianity?

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Pythagoras: sinfulness of eating beans

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Who said "against the soul, lies; against the body, violence" and where?

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How did 19th century Germany pull so far ahead of its contemporaries? [closed]

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When did putting the last name first become popular in filing?

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How was a school for Deaf girls established by public subscription in the middle of a famine?

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What were the 20th century historical disputes?

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Did Nazi Germany ever actually make it illegal to practice Judaism?

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How did Egypt turn from "Breadbasket of the Mediterranean" to second-biggest importer of grain?

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Is Dual alliance, Entente Cordiale in this context?

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Is Snyder's claim about Soviet-German friendship propaganda posters (1939‒41) supportable?

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How adamant/sustained was George F. Kennan's opposition to the [creation of the] UN?

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Is this is a German ring from WW2?

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How did the religious beliefs of the Spanish and Portuguese people influence them to take over South American Countries and people? [closed]

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Need help to identify this circa WW1, American uniform

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What was the difference between Hussars and Chasseurs à Cheval in the 19th Century French army?

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What's the source that Henry IV was the first post-Norman conquest monarch to speak English as their first language?

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Did courtiers of antiquity hold in their pee or did they have common commodes available in the king/queen's court?

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What happened to the Soviet emissaries at the siege of Budapest?

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Was the Force Bill just? [closed]

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Is tabooing or forbidding certain drugs a widespread cross-cultural phenomenon? [closed]

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Anyone have any interesting starters for "footnote trails"? [closed]

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Can you identify this, possibly Italian, uniform?

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Is "Lenin’s Testament" authentic?

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(How) Did criminals in the middle ages get treatment for injuries?

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Where and how were the catapults/trebuchets operators trained?

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Are there confirmed cases where a country changed its language without being conquered?

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Why is there so much prehistoric art found in Spain and France?

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What is the evidence to claim that political order in ancient Rome was sufficiently different under "kingdom", "republic" and "empire"?

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Help identifying Italian uniform, rank, regiment

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Where is the other surviving chest from the Boston Tea Party?

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Where did the so-called "Japanese Skulls" end up?

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What is the origin of the expression "I'm the culture they're dying for"?

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Was United Fruit Company connected to the Rockefeller family?

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Who are the three people in the Twilight Struggle card "Red Scare / Purge"?

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Was the first French Constitution by the Montagnard centralizing or decentralizing?

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How do large landowners affect a state? [closed]

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What is the relation between the "Jacobins" and the "Montagnards" (French Revolution)? [closed]

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What are the grenades and artillery cited in this testimony?


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