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Is this a photo of a historical reinactment of an 1868 treaty signing?
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What is this glyph on Feb 23 1940 in a Finnish military calendar?
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Was silent reading or reading aloud the norm in pre-modern (esp. Tang through Ming eras) China?
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Who was the first person to get a more accurate measure of the earth's circumference than Eratosthenes?
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What was this television history series?
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How does one "ride on the brake beam"?
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What is the original source of this 16th century image of a French town holiday with musicians in a tree?
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Have there been any plausible reports of killing polar bears with a bone spring?
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Was Marshal Foch predicting WW2 20 years in advance just a coincidence?
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Were religious people in the 13 colonies more likely to be loyalists?
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What evidence is there of Asians and Africans in medieval Britain other than Moors in the 7th century?
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When and why did it become frowned upon to win a siege by starvation?
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What is/was a 'cardsetting engine'?
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What was the economic incentive for "redlining"?
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Is it correct to say that primary sources only exist in 'historical times', not in 'pre-history'?
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How many wars have there been in Europe since WW2?
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Who issued this poster promoting Japanese migration to Brazil?
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What's the background to the popularity of turquoise in Russian architecture?
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What's the source of John Adams's quote against the two-party system?
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In the election of 1800, why did Burr end up with as many electoral votes as Jefferson, rather than one fewer?
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What is the origin of the "No Symbol"?
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Why the imbalance of casualties in WW 1?
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Is there a historical precedent to the vaccine scare?
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Is there a historical precedent to the vaccine scare?
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Did Allied bombers return from enemy airspace with undropped bombs?
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When were collapsible umbrellas invented?
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Why did the Egyptians wait so long to introduce the leap year?
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Did the Crisis of the late Middle Ages cause a notable expansion of wilderness in Europe?
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Were early accounts of ancient child prostitution accurate?
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How did the KPD relate to the German state during the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact?
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Did the Dutch eat their Prime Minister?
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Is there evidence that the ancient Persians debated every matter once sober and once drunk?
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Has it been common for Lords to only address the House twice in their entire career?
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Has there ever been any assassination so that another assassination could happen during the first one's funeral?
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What are "stripes" in relation to ancient Roman slaves?
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Was Goryeo part of the Mongol empire?
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Why did the communist Khmer Rouge use a religious image in their flag?
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How do I locate information on a B-17 shot down over Poland?
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Why are Spanish cultures labeled as 'Latin' today, but Italian and eastern Europe cultures aren't?
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Is this apparent story about how Julius Caesar selected soldiers true?
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Was prostitution legal in the Kingdom of Israel during the reign of Solomon?
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What is the earliest reference to playing chess with Death?
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Where is the other surviving chest from the Boston Tea Party?
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Why did epidemic disease spread only from Europe to America and not both ways in the Columbian Exchange? [duplicate]
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What is this metal box for, and where is it from?
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Between 1948 and 1967, were Arab people in the West Bank in favour of Jordanian rule or opposed to it?
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Was the Bohemian Elector part of the Electoral College for purposes of a Reichstag, especially if he was the Emperor of the HRE?
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What is the origin and rank of this military uniform?
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What was Portugal and Spain's primary export which sparked their trade with Africa in the early 15th century?
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Why were slings phased out of medieval armies in favor of bows?
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Did early imperial China have a "uniform, multilevel administrative bureaucracy" that the Romans did not?
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Why are there no pandas in historical Chinese art?
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A Rake's Progress: What is that weird hat-like thing?
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Why didn't Israel officially declare war in several of its prior wars?
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Which event happened first: Meiji Restoration or Boshin War?
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Are there examples of artwork which anachronistically showed ancients equipped with firearms?
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How much more damage can a big cannon do to a ship than a small one?
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Did Herman Melville write the "textbook" chapters of Moby Dick?
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When was the last direct conflict within Israel's boundaries?
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Are Ashkenazi Jews decendants of Khazars? Was there a mass conversion of Khazars to Judaism?
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