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133 Questions

Are modern Greeks related to the ancient Greeks?

How many people did Al Capone kill? [closed]

How regularly did the Romans bathe?

What was Gandhi's post-factum view of the Partition?

Did the Romans have winter uniforms?

Was slavery really on the way out in the antebellum USA?

How much did helping the American Revolution cost France?

Is it true that medieval villages didn't have names?

Absolute rulers who voluntarily resigned their power [closed]

What is the source of the Senate-as-saucer story?

Why is Finland represented as a Soviet satellite in this 1947 cartoon?

Ancient and medieval canteens (water-bottles)

Did the Romans “copy” their political system from the Greeks?

Have famous rabbis ever converted to Islam?

Who wrote the “Mi General Augusto Pinochet” Song?

What is the basis of Russian criticism of Antony Beevor's work? [closed]

Were slaves allowed to use the Roman baths?

Are there any British peers whose surname matches their title? [closed]

Did Muslim states hire Western European knights as mercenaries before the Crusades?

When did it become customary to address the King/Queen of England as Majesty?

Why didn't the Persians make and use ballistas and other kinds of artillery?

Did the poor performance of the Red Army in the Winter War significantly contribute to German underestimation of the USSR's military capacity?

Did Goebbels realize that his wife used to know Arlozorov?

Did the Romans install offensive statues in the temples of conquered territories?

Do British peers have a special way of signing their names?

Why was Stalin so opposed to genetics?

What were acceptance criteria/process to the Vienna Fine Arts Academy in 1906-7?

Why was health insurance not included in the Social Security Act of 1935?

Why did Churchill accept the Order of the Garter in 1953?

Is the USA Congress explicitly patterned after the British Parliament?