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What is the origin of the "wheat and chessboard" legend?
Awarded Sep 22 at 11:21
What is the first known organized religion in the world?
Awarded Sep 22 at 7:49
Which Allied aircraft scored the most air-to-air kills against the Me 262 in WWII?
Awarded Sep 20 at 3:52
Why was Napoleon not executed or imprisoned?
Awarded Sep 18 at 2:50
Why do some sections of Great Wall of China seem to be bidirectional?
Awarded Sep 15 at 22:32
How was the USA able to win naval battles in the Pacific?
Awarded Sep 13 at 20:04
What fueled the street lights in 13th-century Cordoba?
Awarded Sep 6 at 3:10
What was the value of a thousand talents in Roman Palestine about AD 33?
Awarded Sep 4 at 20:41
Did the US provide oil assistance to Germany during WW2?
Awarded Sep 4 at 17:51
What is the history of the popped collar?
Awarded Aug 30 at 23:04
Intersection Between Computer Science and History?
Awarded Aug 27 at 22:12
When did humans start numbering years?
Awarded Aug 21 at 19:05
Did people in China resort to cannibalism during the reign of Mao?
Awarded Aug 18 at 1:27
Why didn't Native Americans have big sailing ships?
Awarded Aug 17 at 11:36
WW 2 US Army Discharge Papers -- Codes
Awarded Aug 10 at 4:45
What is the reason for the selections of gun caliber size in history?
Awarded Aug 8 at 2:11
Why does the Star of David feature on these African coins from 20th century?
Awarded Jul 26 at 19:46
How common were marital duels in medieval Europe?
Awarded Jul 1 at 14:25
How old does an event have to be to be considered 'History'?
Awarded Jun 12 at 14:45
Whatever happened to Turing's friend Arnold Murray?
Awarded Jun 8 at 11:06
What was happening to bank deposits during WW2?
Awarded Jun 4 at 23:51
Did Lenin precisely say "Trust is good, control is better"?
Awarded May 30 at 16:20
What are the origins of knife and fork language etiquette?
Awarded May 27 at 19:37
Were there any Germans in Japan after the surrender of Germany in May, 1945 and if so, what happened to them?
Awarded May 27 at 17:55
Did medieval Mongol horse archers have deformed arms like English bowmen?
Awarded May 23 at 15:50
How did people in the desert stay cool in the past?
Awarded May 3 at 3:18
Has NATO ever started a war?
Awarded Apr 30 at 22:46
Did Christians ever use crucifixion as punishment?
Awarded Apr 17 at 17:19
How prevalent was pork in Arabia before Arabs conversion to Islam?
Awarded Apr 10 at 3:42
Is this tale of WW2 true?
Awarded Mar 31 at 2:55
Comparison of naval fleet strengths during the Napoleonic wars
Awarded Mar 28 at 20:06
What is a major historical event historians are deeply divided over?
Awarded Mar 28 at 9:10
Why did Virginia let Kentucky become a separate state?
Awarded Mar 18 at 15:21
Was the Macedonian phalanx more effective than hoplites?
Awarded Mar 10 at 12:34
Did this "sledge rigged like a sloop" vehicle ever exist, or was it an invention of Jules Verne?
Awarded Mar 9 at 7:47
Why was there lack of food during WW2 in the UK?
Awarded Mar 6 at 17:42
Why is the color red associated with communism?
Awarded Mar 2 at 13:09
Is chain mail expensive?
Awarded Feb 26 at 9:08
What is the origin of the Flower of Life symbol?
Awarded Feb 25 at 0:11
Why did the United States drop a uranium bomb instead of a plutonium bomb on Hiroshima?
Awarded Feb 24 at 22:28
Why did Austronesian/Polynesian people not colonize Australia?
Awarded Feb 22 at 14:42
What was the longest a World War II submarine stayed at sea without being resupplied at a port?
Awarded Feb 15 at 23:15
How long would a letter take to arrive in England from America in 1890?
Awarded Feb 6 at 17:27
Who was the last leader of a country to call himself a dictator, or the last regime that called itself a dictatorship?
Awarded Jan 31 at 17:02
How old is the idea that humans have 360 joints?
Awarded Jan 31 at 16:16
How did Columbus calculate the size of the Earth?
Awarded Jan 30 at 6:01
When did the U.S. Army start saying "oh-six-hundred" for "6 AM"?
Awarded Jan 26 at 22:26
What was the cause of death of Male Rao Holkar?
Awarded Jan 26 at 19:17
Did medieval peasants work 150 days a year?
Awarded Jan 26 at 9:20
Why were helmets and other body armour not commonplace in the 1800s?
Awarded Jan 15 at 1:32
When were 'time zones' (or at least time difference) discovered?
Awarded Jan 4 at 18:20
How literate were common people in Medieval Europe?
Awarded Jan 2 at 22:57
How did Mehmed II die?
Awarded Dec 31, 2022 at 7:51
How was Switzerland able to stay neutral during WWI and WWII?
Awarded Dec 30, 2022 at 23:06
Why was uranium mined in the 1500s, but only "discovered" in 1789?
Awarded Dec 22, 2022 at 21:22
Why was Copernicus not persecuted by the church, but Galileo was?
Awarded Dec 21, 2022 at 13:32
Did the King of Siam offer war elephants to the Union during the Civil War?
Awarded Dec 14, 2022 at 1:16
Did Andrew Jackson threaten to kill the Vice President?
Awarded Dec 4, 2022 at 22:32
Why did really old paintings use such bizarre, unnatural perspective/proportions?
Awarded Dec 1, 2022 at 21:05
Did anyone in ancient times want to abolish slavery?
Awarded Nov 22, 2022 at 19:48
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