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Does a year 1900 meeting in a Masonic Hall imply that it was a meeting of Freemasons?
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Are the Sabean people of Cushitic or Ethiopian origin?
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What was the exact path of the Doolittle Raid?
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How did Mongol nomads acquire metal weapons?
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Pythagoras: sinfulness of eating beans
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Were the Assyrians and the Akkadians different people or the same people under a different name?
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What were the 20th century historical disputes?
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From what part(s) of Germany were the majority of Texas immigrants in the mid-19th century?
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Why would this word have been an unsuitable name in Communist Poland? Is it because it's a racial slur?
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Why would this word have been an unsuitable name in Communist Poland? Is it because it's a racial slur?
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Was drinking coffee with milk illegal under the Ottoman Empire?
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What are the grenades and artillery cited in this testimony?
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Did courtiers of antiquity hold in their pee or did they have common commodes available in the king/queen's court?
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Were slings used for throwing hand grenades? If not, why?
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What is the name of the color used by the SBB (Swiss Federal Railway) in the 1920s to paint their locomotive?
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Are there any medieval manuals relating to castle building?
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What is the name of the color used by the SBB (Swiss Federal Railway) in the 1920s to paint their locomotive?
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What is the name of the color used by the SBB (Swiss Federal Railway) in the 1920s to paint their locomotive?
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"We, who've been connected by blood to Prussia's throne and people since Düppel"
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Who were the pre-Celtic inhabitants of Western Europe?
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Why did the Soviets not shoot down US spy satellites during the Cold War?
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In a broad sense, what are the reasons for the history-spanning persecution of Jews?
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Why did the Soviets not shoot down US spy satellites during the Cold War?
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Pythagoras: sinfulness of eating beans
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Why did the Soviets not shoot down US spy satellites during the Cold War?
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Which ship sank and made the news for its chaotic evacuation around the year 1912?
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Which of these quotes are actually Einstein's (if any)?
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Why did the United States drop a uranium bomb instead of a plutonium bomb on Hiroshima?
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Did Edith Wilson influence the passage of the 19th Amendment?
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Did Edith Wilson influence the passage of the 19th Amendment?
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Has a hereditary peer ever been promoted or demoted to a higher or lower rank?
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Has a hereditary peer ever been promoted or demoted to a higher or lower rank?
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Is there a civilization that never believed in God in the ancient times?
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After World War II, what happened to the Soviet industrial facilities that had been evacuated?
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Were any of the early settlements in America attacked from the sea?
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Why did Henry III of England give his sons English names, other than naming them after his favourite saints?
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What's the earliest example of a permanent embassy?
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Why did Henry III of England give his sons English names, other than naming them after his favourite saints?
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Why does the Central Treaty Organization include the word "central"?
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When did bombs actually look like this?
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Did native Mexicans prefer Spanish rulers to the Aztecs?
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Why did so few militaries use semi automatic rifles as their standard issue infantry weapon?
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Why did so few militaries use semi automatic rifles as their standard issue infantry weapon?
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Isn't there any positive legacy of the Mongolian occupation in Russia?
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When did Kievan Rus' rulers become culturally Slavic?
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When did European building interiors partitioned into rooms become commonplace?
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When did Kievan Rus' rulers become culturally Slavic?
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Which nations have armed prisoners and sent them to war?
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Why did the Nazis target Jehovah's Witnesses?
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Why did Canada retain the rank of Brigadier General? But not Australia, New Zealand, or UK?
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Why did the American South agree to the compromise of 1850?
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What was the first health insurance company in America?
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Is there a common name for periods between Medieval and 19th century?
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Are there any scientific estimates for the population of Mycenaean Greece?
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Why didn't American POWs in Germany seek support from Russian infantry, in WWII?
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How were "Wehrbauern" (soldier peasants) in medieval Europe even a thing, at all?
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Did medieval peasants work 150 days a year?
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When did the U.S. Army start saying "oh-six-hundred" for "6 AM"?
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How did people 'park' their horse and buggy in early 20th century cities? How was theft prevented?
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What military uniform is this?
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