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Did Bill Gates steal the GUI concept from Steve Jobs?

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Is there a historical precedent to the vaccine scare?

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Why did Columbus cross the mid-Atlantic instead of exploring from Greenland?

answered Feb 22, 2017 at 15:16

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Why Were Madagascar and New Zealand Discovered So Late?

answered Mar 26, 2019 at 3:36

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Did China ever consider a phonetic writing system?

answered Jun 13, 2018 at 18:16

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How did the authorities not find the speakeasy clubs during the prohibition?

answered Mar 17, 2020 at 13:49

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

answered Mar 30, 2017 at 18:32

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Why didn't the Norsemen colonize North America?

answered Oct 16, 2018 at 10:08

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Why are many African-Americans in Mississippi concentrated in the northwestern area?

answered Mar 24, 2020 at 13:30

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Why, in the US, is Japanese brutality ignored compared with the Nazi brutality in WW2?

answered Jul 15, 2013 at 12:21

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Which European Languages are not Indo-European?

answered May 21, 2019 at 15:49

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Did medieval peasants work 150 days a year?

answered Jan 23 at 21:10

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Why do western monotheistic religions seem to be so full of conflict over dogma?

answered Oct 11, 2018 at 16:53

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What is the significance behind "40 days" that often appears in the Bible?

answered Mar 15, 2019 at 18:55

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Is there evidence to suggest that Abraham and Hammurabi influenced one another?

answered Jul 9, 2018 at 14:15

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What exactly is the US national anthem?

answered Dec 15, 2020 at 3:05

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Is there a possibility that the Islamic civilization visited America before Columbus?

answered Apr 13, 2013 at 14:05

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Did ancient Germans take pride in leaving the land untouched?

answered Feb 22, 2019 at 16:19

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What is the source of quote attributed to W.E.B. Du Bois: "When you have mastered numbers..."

answered Apr 3, 2018 at 16:38

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Were Alexander the Great and Hephaestion lovers?

answered Jun 3, 2019 at 19:14

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Has there ever been an instance of an active nuclear power plant within or near a war zone?

answered Jan 7, 2019 at 15:13

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How were the cities of Milan and Bruges spared by the Black Death?

answered Nov 12, 2020 at 15:24

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Did the Tamil People discover that the earth was round 2000 years ago?

answered Jan 8, 2014 at 19:48

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Why were the West African islands uninhabited?

answered Aug 25, 2022 at 20:57

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Why didn't Great Britain give the colonies voting rights?

answered May 17, 2016 at 16:44

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Did the Byzantines ever attempt to move their capital to Rome?

answered Sep 4, 2019 at 23:22

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Why didn't Aboriginal Australians invent agriculture?

answered Oct 11, 2019 at 18:38

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Did Pope Urban II issue the papal bull "terra nullius" in 1095?

answered Aug 13, 2019 at 23:09

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What did the Emancipation Proclamation exactly do?

answered Aug 20, 2018 at 14:06

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How did warriors age historically?

answered Aug 1, 2017 at 0:07

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Did Bill Gates steal the GUI concept from Steve Jobs?

Is there a historical precedent to the vaccine scare?

Why did Columbus cross the mid-Atlantic instead of exploring from Greenland?

Why Were Madagascar and New Zealand Discovered So Late?

Did China ever consider a phonetic writing system?

How did the authorities not find the speakeasy clubs during the prohibition?

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

Why didn't the Norsemen colonize North America?

Why are many African-Americans in Mississippi concentrated in the northwestern area?

Why, in the US, is Japanese brutality ignored compared with the Nazi brutality in WW2?

Which European Languages are not Indo-European?

Did medieval peasants work 150 days a year?

Why do western monotheistic religions seem to be so full of conflict over dogma?

What is the significance behind "40 days" that often appears in the Bible?

Is there evidence to suggest that Abraham and Hammurabi influenced one another?

What exactly is the US national anthem?

Is there a possibility that the Islamic civilization visited America before Columbus?

Did ancient Germans take pride in leaving the land untouched?

What is the source of quote attributed to W.E.B. Du Bois: "When you have mastered numbers..."

Were Alexander the Great and Hephaestion lovers?

Has there ever been an instance of an active nuclear power plant within or near a war zone?

How were the cities of Milan and Bruges spared by the Black Death?

Did the Tamil People discover that the earth was round 2000 years ago?

Why were the West African islands uninhabited?

Why didn't Great Britain give the colonies voting rights?

Did the Byzantines ever attempt to move their capital to Rome?

Why didn't Aboriginal Australians invent agriculture?

Did Pope Urban II issue the papal bull "terra nullius" in 1095?

What did the Emancipation Proclamation exactly do?

How did warriors age historically?