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Biggest successful secret project in history?
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What are the historical equivalents of cooperative storytelling like modern role-playing games?
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Historically, why did the US station their nuclear weapons in Germany for delivery through German pilots?
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Why did people not tend to keep records or consider future consequences until very recently?
Awarded Apr 8 at 4:10
What weapon systems have come and gone very quickly?
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Why did the Soviet Union close its borders and restrict travel abroad?
Awarded Oct 12 '19 at 9:40
Did it take 3 minutes to reload a musket when the second amendment to the US constitution was ratified?
Awarded Oct 10 '19 at 18:25
Why command hierarchy, if the chain of command is standing next to each other?
Awarded Aug 12 '19 at 19:50
Why did the person in charge of a principality not just declare themself king?
Awarded May 24 '19 at 1:35
Why was Germany not as successful as other Europeans in establishing overseas colonies?
Awarded Apr 27 '19 at 15:15
What kind of evidence (if any) could be used to identify a large conquest in the time before writing?
Awarded Jan 31 '19 at 12:35
What was the largest strike, by % of a country's population, in history?
Awarded Nov 25 '18 at 23:15
Did the Romans ever encounter the Vikings?
Awarded Jul 29 '18 at 8:45
Why are the majority of Dresden inhabitants atheists or agnostics?
Awarded Jul 11 '18 at 19:15
Did Nazi Party members fight on the front lines?
Awarded Jul 2 '18 at 6:33
Why didn't Wehrmacht soldiers refuse to kill civilians?
Awarded Jun 6 '18 at 22:40
How did pilots know when to release bombs on airplanes during World War2?
Awarded Jun 4 '18 at 17:09
Could a citizen in Nazi Germany sue the government or doctors over the eugenics program?
Awarded May 7 '18 at 13:46
What East German laws and regulations were extended to the West after unification?
Awarded Feb 12 '18 at 21:08
On 1941 Dec 7, could Japan have targeted the Panama Canal instead of Pearl Harbor in a surprise attack?
Awarded Jan 5 '18 at 12:13
When did Europeans make Sunday rather than Saturday the seventh day?
Awarded Nov 15 '17 at 12:53
What was it like for German Jews after WWII?
Awarded Oct 10 '17 at 13:44
Are there examples of pre-industrial cruise ship?
Awarded May 13 '17 at 11:16
During and right after the French Revolution, how did France maintain and operate such a big army all over Europe?
Awarded May 6 '17 at 3:18
Did Mohammed exist, or was he created as a figurehead afterwards?
Awarded Apr 11 '17 at 20:05
Were alchemists respected in Europe?
Awarded Mar 14 '17 at 16:36
Was there any practical use for German spiked helmets (Pickelhaube)?
Awarded Aug 18 '16 at 20:36
What happened to aircraft if their aircraft carrier was damaged?
Awarded Jul 5 '16 at 9:48
Under which conditions does the losing party actively commemorate a battle?
Awarded Jun 21 '16 at 20:46
Why did the Arab spring and Iranian Green movement failed for the most part, but the European revolution did not?
Awarded Mar 23 '16 at 7:44
Why did Germany not join the United Nations until 1973?
Awarded Mar 12 '16 at 14:22
Why did navies abandon armour?
Awarded Mar 8 '16 at 16:36
Was Anne Frank's story common?
Awarded Jan 23 '16 at 10:55
How to rebut Holocaust denial argument?
Awarded Dec 29 '15 at 8:11
What was the tactical benefit of using flamethrowers as weapons?
Awarded Dec 15 '15 at 18:49
What were the 52 kinds of victims persecuted by the Nazis?
Awarded Aug 16 '15 at 22:01

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