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What was the exact path of the Doolittle Raid?
Awarded Mar 24 at 10:40
How can we make claims of ancient alcohol consumption based on chemical analysis of remains?
Awarded Sep 29, 2022 at 13:15
Constantine the Great created the Chi-Rho from the Greek word for "Christ". Why choose Greek over Latin, even though he was Roman?
Awarded Jul 16, 2022 at 14:18
Did a ritual of pushing 60-year-olds off a bridge really exist in Archaic Rome?
Awarded May 6, 2022 at 11:27
Kurds and their relation to the start of civilization?
Awarded Dec 13, 2021 at 20:07
How did CGP Grey get his hands on old New York Times papers?
Awarded Jan 17, 2021 at 19:57
What were the Lines of Ne Plus Ultra in the War of the Spanish Succession?
Awarded Jan 14, 2021 at 8:40
Why did Robert Walpole get painted with a crown on his right side?
Awarded Sep 16, 2020 at 12:08
What was Wilhelm II's "book about the causes of the war"?
Awarded Sep 10, 2020 at 1:18
How common was gun ownership by Londoners in the early 20th century?
Awarded Sep 8, 2020 at 17:36
Was the "anti-suffragist Beresford Hope" related to Alexander Beresford Hope?
Awarded Aug 31, 2020 at 17:12
Why were diamond mining plots 31-foot squares?
Awarded Aug 27, 2020 at 6:04
What's the difference between Country Born and Mulatto people in the 18th century New England?
Awarded Aug 13, 2020 at 9:30
Did the deity "Horus" pre-date "Horus-Aha"?
Awarded Jul 28, 2020 at 15:26
What methods were used for onboard ship communication during WW2?
Awarded Jul 7, 2020 at 21:42
How many pens were used by MacArthur to end the final chapter of World War II and where are they now?
Awarded Jun 18, 2020 at 16:27
Why did the film "The Longest Day" have the "cricket" training scene if the Allies received no intelligence about the hedgerows in Normandy?
Awarded May 30, 2020 at 4:51
What is the oldest known board game for 3+ people?
Awarded Apr 22, 2020 at 14:42
Did the ancient Egyptians dress living cats in jewelry?
Awarded Apr 18, 2020 at 12:33
Why were Royal Navy ships forbidden to attack the ARA Veinticinco de Mayo in Argentinian waters?
Awarded Apr 14, 2020 at 22:25
What will be the regnal number of the next Queen Mary in the UK?
Awarded Apr 12, 2020 at 23:45
What was the estimated malaria death toll for US Forces during World War II?
Awarded Apr 5, 2020 at 14:35
When did Warren Harding say "I am not fit to be president." Why?
Awarded Mar 26, 2020 at 20:15
Why are some Pharaohs depicted wearing the red or the white crowns even after the unification of Egypt?
Awarded Jan 29, 2020 at 13:40
Was murdering a slave illegal in American slavery, and if so, what punishments were given for it?
Awarded Jan 26, 2020 at 3:05
How was the linen weaving trade learnt in 18th century Scotland?
Awarded Oct 28, 2019 at 20:40
What happens to interned military personnel if war is declared post-internment?
Awarded Oct 25, 2019 at 1:40
Why did the UK Parliament sit on Saturday 30 July 1949?
Awarded Oct 15, 2019 at 19:10
Just how fanciful is Egyptology?
Awarded Oct 14, 2019 at 12:50
Are there records of US slaves who practiced Islam following their import from Africa?
Awarded Sep 21, 2019 at 20:55
How was ownership of property managed during the Black Death, when so many original owners had died?
Awarded Sep 20, 2019 at 9:20
Can anyone find an image of Henry Bolingbroke's Sovereygne Feather Seal?
Awarded Sep 5, 2019 at 2:30
Where was Carl Sagan working on a plan to detonate a nuke on the Moon? Where was he applying when he leaked it?
Awarded Aug 27, 2019 at 15:45
Is a wheel older than a wall?
Awarded Aug 25, 2019 at 9:00
How many British prisoners of war were taken by the Wehrmacht and how many died?
Awarded Aug 17, 2019 at 22:00
How serious was the initiative to create "One World Airline"?
Awarded Aug 17, 2019 at 12:05
Did Vladimir Lenin have a cat?
Awarded Jul 30, 2019 at 5:45
Was the Weimar Republic referred to as such by contemporaries?
Awarded Jul 21, 2019 at 17:05
How frequently did monasteries attack other monasteries in Early Medieval Western Europe?
Awarded May 27, 2019 at 10:40
What happened to the British convicts transported to America after the American Revolution?
Awarded May 6, 2019 at 17:55
Why did WWI include Japan?
Awarded May 4, 2019 at 9:30
Did Henry V’s archers at Agincourt fight with no pants / breeches on because of dysentery?
Awarded May 3, 2019 at 13:35
Was Winston Churchill really responsible for the 1943 Bengal famine?
Awarded Apr 25, 2019 at 19:05
Was Nazi science that involved human experimentation ever actually used for anything?
Awarded Apr 24, 2019 at 4:05
What is known about the Ubaid lizard-people figurines?
Awarded Apr 22, 2019 at 19:50
Did pre-Columbian Americans know the spherical shape of the Earth?
Awarded Apr 22, 2019 at 15:50
What do these terms in Caesar's Gallic Wars mean?
Awarded Apr 12, 2019 at 7:05
Where can I find documents from the Nuremberg trials about war crimes of the Wehrmacht in the Soviet Union?
Awarded Apr 9, 2019 at 12:20
Why did the Germans forbid the possession of pet pigeons in Rostov-on-Don in 1941?
Awarded Apr 7, 2019 at 5:55
Why does the parish register show more baptisms than burials?
Awarded Mar 19, 2019 at 8:45
What is this medal that LBJ is wearing?
Awarded Mar 15, 2019 at 7:35
Which RAF squadrons and aircraft types took part in the bombing of Berlin on the 25th of August 1940?
Awarded Feb 25, 2019 at 23:10
Is the scarlet letter 'A' a real historical thing?
Awarded Feb 17, 2019 at 1:45
Did firing trials of pre-WW1 British dreadnoughts involve actually firing at them?
Awarded Feb 4, 2019 at 10:25
Where (if anywhere) were X-ray machines put on trains or trolleys to image "Everybody over 14 years old"?
Awarded Jan 25, 2019 at 8:35
When was King John of England given the name 'Dollheart', and who first used it?
Awarded Jan 24, 2019 at 12:25
Where is an image of the oracle bone that describes the nova?
Awarded Jan 15, 2019 at 9:55
Is the UK the last Allied nation closing the bases established in post-WW2 Germany?
Awarded Jan 7, 2019 at 17:30
Why did only Anglo-Saxon kings wear helmets?
Awarded Nov 26, 2018 at 11:20
What is this "d-mac" device?
Awarded Nov 26, 2018 at 9:50
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