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132 Questions

Are modern Greeks related to the ancient Greeks?

How many people did Al Capone kill? [closed]

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

Did the Romans have winter uniforms?

How regularly did the Romans bathe?

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

How much did helping the American Revolution cost France?

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

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

Absolute rulers who voluntarily resigned their power [closed]

Have famous rabbis ever converted to Islam?

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

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

Ancient and medieval canteens (water-bottles)

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

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

Who wrote the “Mi General Augusto Pinochet” Song?

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

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

Were slaves allowed to use the Roman baths?

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 Goebbels realize that his wife used to know Arlozorov?

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

Why was Stalin so opposed to genetics?

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?

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

Conscientious objectors in Germany during WWI