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Were Arctic communities aware how different daylight cycles were elsewhere?
Awarded Jan 4 at 14:56
Was the Kingdom of Nri truly pacifistic?
Awarded Dec 18 '20 at 13:02
What are the red and white sectors of The Tower of Babel (Rotterdam)?
Awarded Sep 24 '20 at 19:08
What is the connection between the rise of modern football in the UK and the shortening of the work week?
Awarded Aug 25 '20 at 8:06
How did pagination come to be used?
Awarded Jul 10 '20 at 2:20
What happened when the Çatalhöyük burial holes were full and the houses had no more room?
Awarded Jun 18 '20 at 15:11
Why was the Gilgamesh flood tablet such a sensation?
Awarded Jun 11 '20 at 11:26
How were ancient Indian mathematical texts found to modern scholarship?
Awarded Jun 2 '20 at 7:41
What is the meaning of the cross on a Chinese bronze Gu Chalice?
Awarded May 29 '20 at 15:57
What ring is this?
Awarded May 11 '20 at 21:08
Were there any travel restrictions during the Black Death pandemic?
Awarded May 6 '20 at 18:18
Has there ever been any assassination so that another assassination could happen during the first one's funeral?
Awarded May 6 '20 at 12:09
How did gong farmers see when cleaning out cesspits?
Awarded Apr 13 '20 at 3:20
What was the de facto rule by which the imperial title was transmitted in various Chinese dynasties?
Awarded Apr 10 '20 at 23:00
Request for information about an Auschwitz-Birkenau story
Awarded Mar 25 '20 at 16:10
What sort of maps did the ancient Greeks make and distribute?
Awarded Feb 21 '20 at 10:30
Why didn't battleship Bismarck have more support?
Awarded Nov 18 '19 at 9:10
Why were British laypeople more ready to challenge the government starting in the 1960s?
Awarded Jul 18 '19 at 4:35
Did officers use cases / bags / pouches in the 18th century?
Awarded Jul 13 '19 at 13:15
What did Hitler mean with the following statement about Franco?
Awarded Jun 1 '19 at 1:50
What is the etymological origin of the Marsi, the ancient Italic people?
Awarded May 31 '19 at 16:40
Did USS Buck (DD-761) send the message “Temper, Temper”?
Awarded Apr 12 '19 at 20:10
Why did physicians recommend curing the “dancing plague” with more dancing?
Awarded Jan 28 '19 at 16:05
Did the Nazi regime always or often prioritize transport trains to the death camps over military transport?
Awarded Jan 24 '19 at 15:15
How can I understand the effect of the Sonderweg on the Revolution of 1848?
Awarded Jan 22 '19 at 18:50
What factors led to much higher US war bond sales and participation rates in WWII over that of WWI?
Awarded Dec 10 '18 at 0:00
Is there an edition of Gibbon's *Decline and Fall* that has been annotated by a modern historian?
Awarded Sep 28 '18 at 19:20
Yamato class 3rd ship?
Awarded Sep 25 '18 at 20:25
Emancipation Proclamation in a tweet
Awarded Sep 4 '18 at 0:50
When did Josef Wissarionowitsch become “sexy” Stalin?
Awarded Aug 31 '18 at 8:10
Why did the ancient Romans use groups of eight?
Awarded Jul 24 '18 at 1:51
Why bother to attack in trench warfare?
Awarded Jul 22 '18 at 7:19
Did any Native Americans make tomahawks from metal?
Awarded Jul 2 '18 at 5:32
What was the perception of the average British person of the Boston Tea Party?
Awarded Apr 30 '18 at 13:11
How much did it cost to attend events at the ancient Roman colosseum?
Awarded Apr 23 '18 at 20:24
Can anyone find a picture of NSDAP & KPD Workers eating lunch together in 1932 during Berlin Transit Workers Strike?
Awarded Feb 15 '18 at 11:52
Did Marduk-balassu-iqbi help Assur-Danin-Pal?
Awarded Jan 20 '18 at 1:53
What universities existed in Dutch East Indies, and how available were they to the native population?
Awarded Dec 1 '17 at 19:26
When did Europeans make Sunday rather than Saturday the seventh day?
Awarded Nov 22 '17 at 0:56
How would Zenobia's associates and servants address her?
Awarded Sep 28 '17 at 17:49
What were the major imports and exports of Germany and France from 1850-1915?
Awarded Jul 29 '17 at 5:23
Was Mid-Night always considered the transition point between two days in Gregorian/Julian Calendars?
Awarded Jul 16 '17 at 22:32
How much of what we know about ancient philosophers comes from oral literature?
Awarded Jul 13 '17 at 19:52
Did Spain and the Republic of China (Kuomintang) have diplomatic relations between 1931 and 1939? Were they friendly or unfriendly?
Awarded May 16 '17 at 8:36
Did ancient or medieval warriors “substitute” in and out of combat?
Awarded May 15 '17 at 13:46
What is the first documented eating disorder?
Awarded Mar 21 '17 at 20:08
Why were there no agricultural, city-state forming civilizations in the Ice Age?
Awarded Mar 12 '17 at 5:00
Why were La Réunion and Mauritius uninhabited?
Awarded Jan 20 '17 at 18:36
Why didn't the knights of Western Europe drive the Moors out of Granada in 1212 when they invaded Iberia?
Awarded Jan 6 '17 at 4:11
Did medieval Icelanders write with runes?
Awarded Dec 8 '16 at 7:38
Lenin Jacket Picture: What's the story?
Awarded Oct 21 '16 at 11:03
Battle of Queenston Heights, 13 Oct 1812: 23 American soldiers held as British deserters
Awarded Apr 18 '16 at 18:52
When and what was the maximum extent of Nationalist China?
Awarded Mar 2 '16 at 0:16
What is the oldest verifiably correctly translated written work?
Awarded Feb 1 '16 at 16:10
What happened to Muslim spouses who converted to Christianity during the 1923 Graeco-Turkish population exchange?
Awarded Jan 27 '16 at 11:35
How long does it take to craft the kinds of armour worn by typical medieval warriors in europe?
Awarded Dec 7 '15 at 18:51
When was the weekend changed in Jordan?
Awarded Oct 27 '15 at 18:59
What was the contemporary popular opinion of the Anglo-Irish Treaty?
Awarded Sep 12 '15 at 3:12
Conditions of Upper-Silesian-Poles minority in Weimar Republic?
Awarded Jun 26 '15 at 6:51
How wealthy was Singapore at its independence (1965)?
Awarded Mar 9 '15 at 5:05
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