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88 Questions

Who said that Saddam Hussein had WMDs?

How were Father-Presidents of California Missions chosen?

Does the Kimmirut find indicate pre-Viking Europeans traveling to Baffin Island?

Was early Sumerian civilization wiped out by a flood?

How often did city-destroying floods happen in Mesopotamia?

Before 1961, what did they think would happen to people in weightlessness?

Why did the Dutch West India Company allow Quakers in the New Netherlands?

Were US exports in the early 1800s paid for with metal or with paper?

Did the US gov't pay the Cherokee for their lands in Georgia?

What was the main food source in old California?

How did people dress at the Jesuit missions to the Hurons?

How did people acquire things in the pre-Roman Celtic world?

Were there ever Taoist missionaries?

Why was Pah-Ute County transferred to Nevada?

Did early American settlers have to buy their land from the government?

Did any Antarctic expeditions use coal?

What exactly did the 1868 Szepes Petition do?

How long did it take to sail from Philadelphia to Boston in the 1700s?

Why did Mozambique join the British Commonwealth?

How accurately could ancient astronomers find latitude and longitude?

How much cheaper were flintlocks than wheellocks?

Were any California presidios conquered?

Did American Indians disrupt railroads in their regions?

Could medieval European merchants travel through the Islamic world?

Did non-Indians go into Indian Territory (now Oklahoma)?

When did Hinduism forbid overseas travel?

Who is the earliest recorded person?

What did Mesopotamian beehives look like?

How did the Antarctic Plateau lose the kings' names it originally had?

Did any European/American settlements in the Ohio Country survive the French and Indian War?