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Can Bill Clinton run for president of France?
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Why did epidemic disease spread only from Europe to America and not both ways in the Columbian Exchange?
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Why did epidemic disease spread only from Europe to America and not both ways in the Columbian Exchange?
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What is the earliest known historical reference to Tutankhamun?
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Did Arab policymakers have plans for the Jewish population, in case of victory in 1948 War?
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Was there a way for ships to disengage from boarding actions?
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What is the origin and rank of this military uniform?
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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 didn't Israel officially declare war in several of its prior wars?
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How much more damage can a big cannon do to a ship than a small one?
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Was there ever an attempt to give Native Americans their own country?
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Who are the "Millennial Folk" being referred to here?
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When was the last direct conflict within Israel's boundaries?
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Would the USSR have invaded Poland in WW2 if the Germans had not crossed into previously-agreed Soviet sphere of influence?
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What was the purpose of the breastplate rings on samurai armor?
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During World War II, did the Luftwaffe try to bomb 10 Downing Street?
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Where does the name of the country "Belarus" come from?
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What was the purpose of Nazi extermination camps?
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Did enslaved persons take their owner's surnames?
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Who was Richard of York at the Battle of Grunwald?
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Did Romans complain about sundials?
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When were US Presidential candidates' names first shown on the ballot?
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What did Canadians use to pay for goods or services between 1871 and 1935?
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Did Stalin prevent the partitioning of Bulgaria by the western Allies after WW2?
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Why did hobos (at least stereotypically) carry their belongings in a cloth on a stick on their shoulder?
Awarded Aug 26 at 8:42
Why wasn’t the USSR “rebranded” communist?
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Why did families in 6th century Mecca send their babies to be raised in the desert?
Awarded Aug 17 at 13:27
How did Native Americans refer to themselves in the 19th century?
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Did active frontiersmen really eat 20,000 calories a day? How does this compare to other highly-active people in recorded history?
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Who was the first woman ruler?
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How was the USA able to win naval battles in the Pacific?
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What is the reason that not all roman emperors named a month after them?
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How difficult was it to spoof the sender of a telegram in 1890-1920's in USA?
Awarded Jul 25 at 20:34
How would an American returning from international travel prove his citizenship before 1914?
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What caused this cratering pattern at Hiroshima?
Awarded Jul 11 at 8:20
Were Patton's and/or other generals' vehicles prominently flagged with stars (and if so, why)?
Awarded Jul 8 at 3:25
Was Switzerland really impossible to invade during WW2?
Awarded Jun 29 at 18:49
How common are historical instances of mercenary armies reversing and attacking their employing country?
Awarded Jun 29 at 14:22
Why is the Arch of Titus not considered to be anti-Semitic?
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Why are the ceilings so high in older houses?
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What do the insignias on the collar shown in this photograph stand for?
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When was the last promotion in the British Peerage?
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Why was the Spanish kingdom in America called New Spain if Spain didn't exist as a country back then?
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Was Ford the only person who became a US president without winning an election?
Awarded May 24 at 0:05
What is the context of Lincoln saying: "if I could save the union without freeing any slave I would do it"
Awarded May 18 at 9:35
Where does Lincoln say the South wants us to believe as they believe?
Awarded May 16 at 17:07
Why did the "Ruthenians" break up into "Belarusians" and "Ukrainians?"
Awarded May 14 at 15:35
Is there a record of a rabid human attacking another human?
Awarded May 5 at 17:31
Did the drapes in old theatres actually say "ASBESTOS" on them?
Awarded May 3 at 9:21
Why does Japan celebrate the Gregorian New Year but China still celebrates Chinese New Year?
Awarded Apr 17 at 20:18
Why did Germany decide not to restore the Hohenzollern dynasty to the throne of a German Empire after the defeat of Hitler in World War Two?
Awarded Apr 17 at 8:11
How much louder was a Napoleonic era cannon than a musket?
Awarded Apr 14 at 20:08
Why were kitchen work surfaces in Sweden apparently so low before the 1950s or so?
Awarded Apr 6 at 20:42
Why were kitchen work surfaces in Sweden apparently so low before the 1950s or so?
Awarded Apr 5 at 19:40
Was an uppercase j used to replace an uppercase i letter on German monument inscriptions?
Awarded Mar 31 at 17:25
Why would this word have been an unsuitable name in Communist Poland? Is it because it's a racial slur?
Awarded Mar 29 at 8:05
Does a year 1900 meeting in a Masonic Hall imply that it was a meeting of Freemasons?
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What are the grenades and artillery cited in this testimony?
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Are there any medieval manuals relating to castle building?
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