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Why did Latin disappear so completely in Britain after the Romans left?
Awarded Jun 18 at 16:42
Why is the Arch of Titus not considered to be anti-Semitic?
Awarded Jun 23, 2023 at 0:25
Constantine the Great created the Chi-Rho from the Greek word for "Christ". Why choose Greek over Latin, even though he was Roman?
Awarded Dec 28, 2022 at 1:08
In the first half of 20th century, how was gold inspected for authenticity?
Awarded Jun 15, 2022 at 14:36
In medieval Europe, were children born in an annulled marriage automatically illegitimate?
Awarded May 4, 2022 at 0:55
Why did people have so many children in Victorian times?
Awarded Aug 29, 2021 at 20:07
How did succession in Anglo Saxon England work?
Awarded Mar 5, 2021 at 11:07
Were the earliest Egyptian hieroglyphs ever discovered really found in Qustul in Ancient Nubia?
Awarded Dec 3, 2020 at 21:42
Why did Robert Walpole get painted with a crown on his right side?
Awarded Sep 15, 2020 at 19:15
Why were diamond mining plots 31-foot squares?
Awarded Aug 27, 2020 at 16:18
What's the meaning of a knight fighting a snail in medieval book illustrations?
Awarded Aug 27, 2020 at 8:06
Why did the film "The Longest Day" have the "cricket" training scene if the Allies received no intelligence about the hedgerows in Normandy?
Awarded Jun 1, 2020 at 12:40
Why was Eisenhower chosen to be Supreme Allied Commander in Europe?
Awarded May 29, 2020 at 9:50
Why can I visit battlefields, but not battleships?
Awarded May 4, 2020 at 15:17
Why were Royal Navy ships forbidden to attack the ARA Veinticinco de Mayo in Argentinian waters?
Awarded Apr 15, 2020 at 9:55
When did Warren Harding say "I am not fit to be president." Why?
Awarded Mar 25, 2020 at 7:15
Why did the Allies Invade French North Africa?
Awarded Feb 5, 2020 at 5:00
Did it take 3 minutes to reload a musket when the second amendment to the US constitution was ratified?
Awarded Oct 10, 2019 at 8:00
Earliest evidence of objects intended for future archaeologists?
Awarded Aug 19, 2019 at 16:55
Why did WWI include Japan?
Awarded Aug 14, 2019 at 8:55
Did Vladimir Lenin have a cat?
Awarded Jul 30, 2019 at 22:25
What is the date and original source of this medieval picture?
Awarded Jul 17, 2019 at 19:00
How did the Allies achieve air superiority on Sicily?
Awarded May 20, 2019 at 15:20
Was murdering a slave illegal in American slavery, and if so, what punishments were given for it?
Awarded May 17, 2019 at 12:10
Is there any evidence to support the claim that the United States was "suckered into WW1" by Zionists, made by Benjamin Freedman in his 1961 speech?
Awarded May 9, 2019 at 4:15
Did Henry V’s archers at Agincourt fight with no pants / breeches on because of dysentery?
Awarded Apr 29, 2019 at 23:00
Did pre-Columbian Americans know the spherical shape of the Earth?
Awarded Apr 22, 2019 at 22:55
Why did the rest of the Eastern Bloc not invade Yugoslavia?
Awarded Apr 18, 2019 at 20:40
Why did the Germans forbid the possession of pet pigeons in Rostov-on-Don in 1941?
Awarded Apr 8, 2019 at 6:30
What is the oldest known work of fiction?
Awarded Mar 27, 2019 at 12:42
What (else) happened July 1st 1858 in London?
Awarded Mar 26, 2019 at 8:50
Non-Italian European mafias in USA?
Awarded Mar 5, 2019 at 23:50
Which RAF squadrons and aircraft types took part in the bombing of Berlin on the 25th of August 1940?
Awarded Feb 26, 2019 at 15:40
Is the scarlet letter 'A' a real historical thing?
Awarded Feb 17, 2019 at 21:20
Were there military operations that targeted individual enemy commanders?
Awarded Feb 7, 2019 at 18:50
Was the tugboat ever part of a WWII battle group?
Awarded Feb 4, 2019 at 20:30
Did firing trials of pre-WW1 British dreadnoughts involve actually firing at them?
Awarded Feb 4, 2019 at 11:00
About how many immigrants were on the Titanic?
Awarded Jan 28, 2019 at 15:50
Where (if anywhere) were X-ray machines put on trains or trolleys to image "Everybody over 14 years old"?
Awarded Jan 15, 2019 at 19:50
What ship is this and which military campaign?
Awarded Jan 2, 2019 at 15:30
Are there records of US slaves who practiced Islam following their import from Africa?
Awarded Dec 30, 2018 at 16:55
What type of plane is this wreck?
Awarded Nov 20, 2018 at 7:00
Why is the consensus that WW2 started on September 1, 1939 and not July 7, 1937?
Awarded Nov 8, 2018 at 16:45
Who is in this c.1866 photo?
Awarded Oct 24, 2018 at 8:45
What is the origin of this coin? Willem WRL
Awarded Oct 4, 2018 at 15:55
What's the explanation for the similarities seen between the Rapa Nui script and the Indus Valley Script?
Awarded Sep 30, 2018 at 2:55
Has there ever been an archbishop or bishop younger than the 16-year-old James of Nicosia?
Awarded Sep 27, 2018 at 11:55
Was Heinrich Himmler's death a suicide?
Awarded Sep 26, 2018 at 17:46
Hiring professionals to transcribe historical documents
Awarded Sep 12, 2018 at 16:40
Were Trojans the ancestors of the Romans?
Awarded Sep 12, 2018 at 9:45
Why did the Royal Society in 1771 believe that a continent further south than Australia should exist?
Awarded Aug 20, 2018 at 14:25
What date does a 1738 British author intend by "soon after the revolution"?
Awarded Jul 19, 2018 at 2:49
Source of quote attributed to Florence Nightingale: To understand God's thoughts we must study statistics
Awarded May 5, 2018 at 14:00
What is the first horse name recorded in history?
Awarded Apr 25, 2018 at 0:16
Were New York or Philadelphia ever declared the capital of the United States?
Awarded Apr 18, 2018 at 8:55
Why did the Soviet Union name their strongest bomb Tsar Bomba?
Awarded Mar 28, 2018 at 15:37
What ships did pirates use in ancient Greece and Rome?
Awarded Jan 25, 2018 at 14:47
How much materiel was shipped to Continental Europe per month, after D-Day?
Awarded Jan 23, 2018 at 9:04
Did Sir Isaac Newton ever claim that his mind in 1666 was "remarkably fit for invention"?
Awarded Dec 19, 2017 at 19:53
How do historians and linguists know how to pronounce the names from non-phonetic scripts?
Awarded Dec 8, 2017 at 17:40
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