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Did the leaflets from the US to Hiroshima/Nagasaki civilians on bombing cities reduce the civilian casualties of the two nuclear bombs in August 1945?

What are good online sources for historical maps?

Why could China keep most of the lands it conquered after 17th century but European powers could not?

Why weren't Indians converted en masse to Islam or Christianity?

How kind were the Muslim occupations of North Africa?

How did people wash dishes before dish detergent?

Why are Germans referred to so differently in different languages?

Why did only the English adopt, evolve and use the longbow en masse in war?

When did the Roman Empire fall according to contemporaries?

Has anyone ever named a war after their own country or faction?

How did people in the desert stay cool in the past?

How was Germany able to hold itself together, while Austria-Hungary could not?

What was the economic basis for West Berlin?

Why bother to attack in trench warfare?

Was hay invented only in the Middle Ages in Europe?

Why are the German and French languages so different?

Where is the bloodiest square mile on Earth?

How do I find the sources which determined the year of the fall of Babylon?

Why did modern “Romania” remain the most “Roman” part of the Balkans?

Why did North America economically prosper, and maintain stable government and South/Central America didn't?

When did the allies find out about the killing of Jews during WW2

What is the reason for the selections of gun caliber size in history?

How were books published in Ancient Greece?

Was Anne Frank's story common?

If the Ch’in dynasty was so short-lived, why was China named for it?

How do historians verify historical claims?

What did an ancient Roman certificate of land ownership look like; or, what did it consist of?

Did any historically known figure produce such a quote?

When was it discovered that the stars are not all lying on the same plane?

Are tanks the only reason for the abandonment of trench warfare?