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First question with score of 1 or more.
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What are these shell case markings?
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What are these historic tools?
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Factcheck: Did Australia request 200.000 17 year old girls from Germany in 1946?
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What is the earliest reference to playing chess with Death?
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Which text asserts that "An assembly with no minority/opposition should be dissolved"?
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Why did epidemic disease spread only from Europe to America and not both ways in the Columbian Exchange? [duplicate]
Awarded Nov 28 at 12:57
What is this kind of supply package called?
Awarded Nov 24 at 22:34
Are there any confirmed accounts of ancient Greek or Roman mathematicians owning slaves?
Awarded Nov 23 at 20:10
What language, culture, traditions etc, gives their son only the father family names and their daughters the mother family names?
Awarded Nov 21 at 13:50
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Awarded Nov 21 at 1:15
What could be the origin of this polychrome wooden statue?
Awarded Nov 20 at 20:57
What is the work Academicorum Philosophorum Index Herculanensis, and how reliable is it?
Awarded Nov 19 at 20:12
What is the earliest known historical reference to Tutankhamun?
Awarded Nov 19 at 13:50
Is Edwin M. Stanton related to Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
Awarded Nov 18 at 12:36
How effective were early modern hand grenades?
Awarded Nov 17 at 3:18
Was silent reading or reading aloud the norm in pre-modern (esp. Tang through Ming eras) China?
Awarded Nov 16 at 21:55
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Awarded Nov 15 at 14:47
Famous Dalgety officer in the Great Boer War by Conan Doyle?
Awarded Nov 15 at 9:33
Battle of Ulm: why did general Mack surrender to Napoleon instead of retreating to Ulm and wait for the Russian Army?
Awarded Nov 13 at 19:11
What is the uniform in this photo of my Great Grandmother’s father?
Awarded Nov 13 at 6:10
Do we know how many dead people were _already_ aboard the Titanic when she hit the iceberg?
Awarded Nov 8 at 18:05
Has the US Congress ever met outdoors?
Awarded Nov 7 at 9:25
What is the origin and rank of this military uniform?
Awarded Nov 5 at 2:55
Is there a dog in Rembrandt's "The Night Watch"? [closed]
Awarded Nov 3 at 17:26
What was Portugal and Spain's primary export which sparked their trade with Africa in the early 15th century?
Awarded Nov 3 at 0:20
What percentage of Himeji castle keep remains original...?
Awarded Nov 2 at 12:40
Did early imperial China have a "uniform, multilevel administrative bureaucracy" that the Romans did not?
Awarded Oct 31 at 10:35
Could healthy young men avoid Wehrmacht conscription before 1939?
Awarded Oct 29 at 20:28
Does it make sense to point cannons at a city (Marseille Fort St Jean)?
Awarded Oct 29 at 10:25
What factors accounted for the pattern of caranvanserai across Eurasia? [closed]
Awarded Oct 27 at 20:40
Is there any painting in art history that depicts furniture floating in the air?
Awarded Oct 26 at 18:56
Did Dukes, Counts, Barons, etc. have courts similar to a King/Emperor? [closed]
Awarded Oct 26 at 16:07
What is my Grandpa's collar insignia?
Awarded Oct 25 at 15:16
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Awarded Oct 23 at 9:55
Which event happened first: Meiji Restoration or Boshin War?
Awarded Oct 19 at 19:16
How much more damage can a big cannon do to a ship than a small one?
Awarded Oct 16 at 20:21
Who is this decorated WWI Italian Army General?
Awarded Oct 16 at 7:22
Are there historical cults/sects who venerated Judas?
Awarded Oct 14 at 11:36
Why didn't the Catholic Church invent new names for the classical planets? [closed]
Awarded Oct 13 at 19:25
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Awarded Oct 12 at 19:48
Have Chinese (and surrounding) cultures traditionally heated their milk?
Awarded Oct 11 at 22:46
What is Lenin critically referring to here - presumably some actions by Trotsky?
Awarded Oct 10 at 0:25
Who was an English spy in France in WW2 who escaped the Gestapo by listening to the 'little voice in his head' telling him "Leave Now!"
Awarded Oct 9 at 2:36
Were there any female soldiers in the Soviet army who partook in the mass rapes in Eastern Germany?
Awarded Oct 5 at 2:07
What nationality are the soldiers in these WW2 pictures?
Awarded Oct 4 at 10:26
Why are there no pandas in historical Chinese art?
Awarded Oct 3 at 21:31
Were Ancient Egyptian kings BELIEVED TO BE subject to judgment by Maat in the Afterworld like other people or were they immune or do we know? [closed]
Awarded Oct 2 at 17:45
Did the famous French privateer Surcouf really drop that epic zinger on an anonymous British officer?
Awarded Sep 26 at 13:32
During World War II, did the Luftwaffe try to bomb 10 Downing Street?
Awarded Sep 22 at 18:47
What was this 1917 shell casing used for?
Awarded Sep 22 at 15:52
If there was truly 3 hours of darkness in Roman empire following the crucifixion, would we expect some sort of record to survive of this happening?
Awarded Sep 19 at 20:41
What is the exact reign years for Japanese Emperor Keiko, Emperor Seimu, Emperor Chuai, Empress Jingu and Emperor Nintoku?
Awarded Sep 18 at 15:06
What is the earliest documented characterization of Hitler as "dictator" in Canada's public record?
Awarded Sep 17 at 13:21
What was the ethnic composition of the Castilian army and Muslim Spain (al-Andalus) army in Middle Ages? [closed]
Awarded Sep 17 at 8:17
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Awarded Sep 16 at 11:20
Is this a Russian naval uniform?
Awarded Sep 11 at 17:47
Did enslaved persons take their owner's surnames?
Awarded Sep 10 at 3:06
How long would a letter take to arrive in Geneva from Ingolstadt? (Georgian era)
Awarded Sep 9 at 11:50
How were Soviet-Afghanistan War casualties distributed between the Soviet Republics? Were they disproportionately non-Russian?
Awarded Sep 9 at 2:18
Which British WW1 regiment is shown in this photograph?
Awarded Sep 7 at 14:30
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