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What was this 1917 shell casing used for?
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At the beginning of the 20th century, how did Austria-Hungary and Russia's foreign policies conflict in the Balkans?
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Did the USSR attempt to broker peace negotiations between Japan and USA?
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What was the Ancient Egyptian's word for eleventh or twelfth?
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Are these Polish WWI or WW2 uniforms? And any idea on the shorter gentleman's military decoration (cross?) on left shoulder?
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How did medieval architects determine sizes and numbers of pillars, buttresses etc?
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What did Canadians use to pay for goods or services between 1871 and 1935?
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When were US Presidential candidates' names first shown on the ballot?
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When and how was West/East-German citizenship determined in the early years of post-war Germany? [duplicate]
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Why wouldn't debtors simply destroy their tally sticks?
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Why did China and some other communist countries boycot the 1980 Summer Olympics?
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How did Native Americans refer to themselves in the 19th century?
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Karl Marx's usage of "Moor"
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Is the word God (or it's equivalent) always as old as the civilization's earliest written texts? [closed]
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Help identifying an old bayonet
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How significant was poetry as mnemonic device in technical / philosophical / scientific texts in classical Rome and Greece? [closed]
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Why did English medieval inheritance law have coheiresses but not coheirs?
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Can anyone identify this uniform, approximate year, and aircraft?
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Did active frontiersmen really eat 20,000 calories a day? How does this compare to other highly-active people in recorded history?
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Did D&D and similar media actually increase interest in the occult?
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Are there any concepts that Da Vinci drew in his notebooks that still have not been realized today?
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What is the origin of oak leaves in military insignia and decorations?
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What is the dating of the earliest manuscript of the Book of Arda Wiraz?
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Would a common person in the 18th century have heard Mozart's music during his lifetime?
Awarded Jul 19 at 18:47
Why did the Rhodesian Army lack the rank of General?
Awarded Jul 16 at 21:55
Why are there 37 numbers on European roulette wheels?
Awarded Jul 14 at 7:04
How did the Ten Attendants gain power in the imperial palace?
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Are the dimensions of bricks used in Sumerian monuments like the great Ziggurat of Ur the same as in the Indus Valley Civilization?
Awarded Jul 9 at 23:55
When and how did the concept of posthumous reward and punishment enter ancient Judaism?
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What did Europeans do with captured war elephants?
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What is the difference between OBV & SBV, in Babylonian texts translated to English?
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When were terms for points of sail first used?
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Did people from the cities of Uruk, Ur and Sumer have knowledge/recollection of how old their cities were (say, recollection after 2000 BCE)?
Awarded Jun 24 at 1:58
Why wasn’t Japan colonized by the European empires?
Awarded Jun 21 at 13:48
Was there ever a strategic concern about East German refusing to fight against West Germans (and vice versa) if the cold war had gone hot?
Awarded Jun 20 at 16:23
Why didn't a noble family change their last name from a kind of duck to something more prestigious?
Awarded Jun 17 at 19:06
How long would it take to travel from Missouri to South Africa in late 1890s?
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Was there a love affair between Faustina the Younger and Avidius Cassius?
Awarded Jun 16 at 8:56
Is there a word for this aesthetic from the late 80s and early 90s?
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How much did cannon cost in 1410?
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Why was the Spanish kingdom in America called New Spain if Spain didn't exist as a country back then?
Awarded Jun 8 at 22:51
Why does the M61 Vulcan have a flash suppressor?
Awarded Jun 6 at 0:26
Where can I learn about Jewish Zealot ideology and history?
Awarded Jun 2 at 20:48
Why is Killiniq island divided between Nunavut and Labrador?
Awarded May 31 at 14:28
Was Ford the only person who became a US president without winning an election?
Awarded May 23 at 17:11
Is there a standard authority on the textual history of the authors of antiquity?
Awarded May 13 at 9:49
Why was New Guinea not colonized by Austronesians the way Indonesia was?
Awarded May 5 at 6:51
What are the intellectual roots of the "French Republican identity" pursuit?
Awarded May 3 at 6:06
What is the original provenance of Lincoln's "of the people, by the people, for the people" and why is Wikipedia so confused?
Awarded May 3 at 0:42
What place was called [in Latin] Audomaropolitanus?
Awarded May 2 at 19:02
Who was Christophorus Uveida?
Awarded May 1 at 22:35
When was the last round-shot cannonball fired in anger?
Awarded May 1 at 18:16
Has NATO ever started a war?
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Are there other examples of sustainable propaganda besides USSR: several generations, several leaders
Awarded Apr 28 at 13:25
Why have so few paleo-Indian skeletons been found?
Awarded Apr 27 at 23:11
Why did Pakistan get involved in Soviet-Afghan war from 1979 to 1989?
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Is the history of relations between Ukraine and Russia similar to what was between Ireland and Uk? [closed]
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What are they wearing over their shoulders?
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Was Ulysses S Grant arrested while president or any other time?
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