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How was law enforcement handled in large US cities before professional police?

Why was it “acceptable” for Prince Charles to marry a divorced woman, when Edward VIII had to abdicate for marrying divorcee Wallis Simpson?

Are there historical examples of audiences drawn to a work that was “so bad it's good”?

Where did the Gaels originate?

Why couldn't Japan crack the Navajo Code in WW2, when they captured a Navajo native speaker?

Under which conditions does the losing party actively commemorate a battle?

What language(s) were spoken within the Holy Roman Empire?

Were there Muslims in 12th century England?

Before 1980, was there ever an attempt to evangelise for Orthodox Christianity?

What happened to those ethnic Greeks who converted to Islam during the Ottoman empire?

What is the most advanced nonliterate society?

In the biography of Turing by Hodges an ancient Celtic tradition is mentioned of killing the last to arrive

Why did Bavaria join Prussia/Germany instead of Austria?

What language does this look like?

How were ethnographic maps in the 19th century made?

How to make a proper chiton and himation?

What intelligence successes did the Axis have in WW2?

Why are Indian states divided based on the native language spoken? [closed]

Time zones in USA

When modern time measurement first appeared and who invented it?

Was there ever a situation where members of two warring militaries were on leave in the same neutral location? [closed]

Value of commodity money outside of the place it was minted