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Awarded 64 times.
Were there women who were against giving women the right to vote?
Awarded Aug 8, 2022 at 15:18
Why did people have so many children in Victorian times?
Awarded Mar 7, 2022 at 14:33
Has NATO ever started a war?
Awarded Mar 5, 2022 at 0:06
Why didn't Roman emperors have harems?
Awarded Nov 4, 2021 at 15:46
Where is the bloodiest square mile on Earth?
Awarded May 26, 2021 at 16:05
Why didn’t Japan attack the West Coast of the United States during World War II?
Awarded May 18, 2021 at 21:35
What fueled the street lights in 13th-century Cordoba?
Awarded Apr 29, 2021 at 18:18
Have any astronauts or cosmonauts died in space?
Awarded Feb 27, 2021 at 18:11
Were there women who were against giving women the right to vote?
Awarded Feb 10, 2021 at 14:06
Where is the bloodiest square mile on Earth?
Awarded Nov 28, 2020 at 7:25
Why didn't Aboriginal Australians invent agriculture?
Awarded Nov 4, 2020 at 7:47
Why, in ancient battles, did being encircled mean defeat?
Awarded Sep 18, 2020 at 21:47
Why was France granted an equal status among victors of World War II?
Awarded Aug 27, 2020 at 21:21
Has an individual ever purchased an entire country?
Awarded Jul 30, 2020 at 20:26
Have American urban rioters ever looted residences?
Awarded Jun 4, 2020 at 6:00
Why did the Germans spare Allied troops trapped at Dunkirk?
Awarded May 22, 2020 at 8:16
Why was Britain willing to return Hong Kong but not Gibraltar?
Awarded Mar 5, 2020 at 4:55
Why did the Germans use the Enigma machine rather than the far superior "Lorenz" cipher machine?
Awarded Feb 19, 2020 at 19:10
What is the first recorded dog name?
Awarded Jan 6, 2020 at 22:15
Which culture used no personal names?
Awarded Oct 17, 2019 at 13:05
Did it take 3 minutes to reload a musket when the second amendment to the US constitution was ratified?
Awarded Oct 12, 2019 at 1:35
What did babies eat before the advent of modern blenders?
Awarded Oct 3, 2019 at 13:40
Why does this London Underground poster from 1924 have a Star of David atop a Christmas tree?
Awarded Aug 30, 2019 at 12:55
Why, in ancient battles, did being encircled mean defeat?
Awarded Aug 21, 2019 at 8:50
Is this artwork (used in a video game) real?
Awarded Jul 18, 2019 at 2:10
Are there any important biographies of nobodies?
Awarded Jun 7, 2019 at 4:05
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 10, 2019 at 9:35
Why Were Madagascar and New Zealand Discovered So Late?
Awarded Mar 28, 2019 at 2:30
Has a sovereign Communist government ever run, and conceded loss, on a fair election?
Awarded Mar 9, 2019 at 11:50
Did Adolf Hitler ever address the fact that his own appearance was almost an exact opposite of what he considered the ideal Aryan appearance?
Awarded Feb 20, 2019 at 12:35
Why does Ngram show an extreme spike in use of "LOL" in mid 1600s?
Awarded Dec 25, 2018 at 19:25
Do historians agree that most wars are caused by religion?
Awarded Nov 29, 2018 at 3:10
Why didn't the US and USSR jam each other's early-warning radar?
Awarded Nov 23, 2018 at 9:40
Why is the consensus that WW2 started on September 1, 1939 and not July 7, 1937?
Awarded Nov 9, 2018 at 18:55
Why did the Confederacy think they could win the American Civil War?
Awarded Oct 27, 2018 at 8:00
How would a 16-year-old girl from Cleopatra's era curse?
Awarded Oct 9, 2018 at 20:40
Why did the British scuttle the u-boats surrendered after WWII?
Awarded Aug 6, 2018 at 19:00
Why bother to attack in trench warfare?
Awarded Jul 16, 2018 at 10:08
Did Russian winter seriously contribute to German defeat on the Eastern Front in WWII?
Awarded Jul 1, 2018 at 11:45
Did China ever consider a phonetic writing system?
Awarded Jun 20, 2018 at 1:09
Why was Poland spared from the Black Death?
Awarded Jun 12, 2018 at 10:40
Why didn't Wehrmacht soldiers refuse to kill civilians?
Awarded Jun 7, 2018 at 9:51
Did medieval scholars believe the Earth was round?
Awarded May 19, 2018 at 21:58
Why did stock brokers go bankrupt after the crash of 1929?
Awarded Mar 22, 2018 at 18:33
Why did Native Americans die from European diseases while Europeans didn't catch serious diseases from the New World?
Awarded Mar 10, 2018 at 20:49
How do historians and linguists know how to pronounce the names from non-phonetic scripts?
Awarded Dec 10, 2017 at 21:24
Why did Churchill order the destruction of the bombes?
Awarded Nov 19, 2017 at 15:07
Did the ancients or other pre-industrial civilisations engage in unsustainable practices?
Awarded Nov 16, 2017 at 10:54
When did people decide that all caps means the writer is shouting?
Awarded Nov 1, 2017 at 1:14
When did people decide that all caps means the writer is shouting?
Awarded Oct 26, 2017 at 21:39
Why were ships-of-the line not supposed to open fire on frigates during fleet actions?
Awarded Oct 22, 2017 at 12:31
Identify the era or any other clues from this soldier's picture?
Awarded Aug 10, 2017 at 11:54
When did the allies find out about the killing of Jews during WW2
Awarded Jun 27, 2017 at 9:43
Why did Hitler attack the Soviet Union when he was still busy fighting the United Kingdom?
Awarded May 22, 2017 at 4:41
Why didn't Hitler have more submarines in the English channel?
Awarded May 6, 2017 at 11:24
Why were old fortifications shaped like stars and not like circles?
Awarded Mar 1, 2017 at 19:05
Why did Columbus cross the mid-Atlantic instead of exploring from Greenland?
Awarded Feb 25, 2017 at 14:09
On 1941 Dec 7, could Japan have targeted the Panama Canal instead of Pearl Harbor in a surprise attack?
Awarded Nov 8, 2016 at 18:05
Why were Navajo code talkers used during WW2?
Awarded Oct 28, 2016 at 9:57
Is there a historical precedent to the vaccine scare?
Awarded Sep 23, 2016 at 10:00
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