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How did archers judge distance before range finders?

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Why are many African-Americans in Mississippi concentrated in the northwestern area?

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Why did Peter the Great name Saint Petersburg, Russia with a foreign styled name?

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How much did a transatlantic telegram cost in 1914?

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When did Warren Harding say “I am not fit to be president.” Why?

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Was the de Havilland Mosquito ever deployed on an aircraft carrier?

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Did they really have automatic anti-aircraft cannons in WW2? [closed]

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What is the technical term for a head on head battle?

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Was the 35 year age minimum chosen for US president roughly equal to the average life expectancy for a reason?

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What was the significance of the BEF moving into the gap between German forces in First Battle of the Marne?

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How did Soviet soldiers resist tanks during the battle of Shumshu?

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How alcoholic were ancient Greek and Roman wines, before and after dilution?

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What is the name of this song about taking Cherokee land?

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answered Mar 12 at 2:05 Samuel Russell 12.4k

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Based on his service record, where was this soldier deployed in WW2?

world-war-two military great-britain

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Why was there so little information about sex in Eastern Block countries?

communism sexuality

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Why were the cities of the Eastern European Plain founded much later than those elsewhere in Europe?

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Why don't Americans claim English ancestry? [closed]

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Who first said “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”?

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What exactly is a Tang dynasty 壺 (pot)?

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Is the use by old masters of camera obscura and optics in general a taboo topic in Art History, or was David Hockney's thesis wrong?

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What is an Odalbönder and Heathguard?

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Is there any first-hand evidence of intentional spreading of disease among natives in the Pacific Northwest?

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Why did animation become so huge in Japan compared to other countries?

japan popular-culture

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What is the source for John Adams Sr. writing about Hamilton taking blame for Washington?

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Request for information about an Auschwitz-Birkenau story

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Is there an example of a civil rights movement supporter with a record of being against it?

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Is there an example of 19th century non-believer who fluently alludes to Scripture?

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Why didn't the Wehrmacht pull back to a short frontline in 1945? [closed]

world-war-two nazi-germany

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What happened to dead WWI soldiers whose faith believed in cremation?

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What was the role of the mountain ranges surrounding India in developing India's civilization?

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Did the Nazi Army have a telephone conversation pattern?

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What is this illustration portraying?

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What were the global economic consequences of the 1918 flu pandemic?

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Did the Third Rome theory help make Michael Romanov tsar?

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How effective was Civil War-era artillery in the rain?

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What jobs exempted one from being conscripted in the UK during World War 2? [closed]

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What can we deduce about the expected career of a US Navy “lifer” in 1972?

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When did the allied “Desert Air Force” in North Africa smash Axis armour?

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What causes the stark vertical divide in population maps of the United States? [closed]

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Why did Allied Command maintain passive, especially Indian units in Middle East during the years 1942 and 1943?

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Did the Roman testudo protect the sides of the formation?

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