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Did medieval armies cultivate resources during their campaigns?

What does it mean to "take the Cross"

Was there a major Mexican military disaster in the Navajo Wars?

Who is Swedens rightful king considering the coup d'etat of 1809 deposed the then rightful king?

Was there a state or kingdom in the Maghreb of North Africa that predates the founding of Carthage?

Mesopotamia laws 196, 197 and 198

Nazis and Khazar Theory of Ashkenazi Jews

Did personnel from the "Aktion T4" ("euthanasia" murders) kill severely wounded Wehrmacht soldiers on the eastern front?

When did French become the official language of France?

How did ululation originate and spread?

What does the crested logo with a stacked "A C and I" on this Baldwin-Felts certificate mean?

What is the current U.S. monetary standard?

Did pre-16th century Europeans call the Pacific Ocean the Atlantic?

Why did European alchemists seek metal transmutation in addition to the Elixir Of Life?

Why did Alexander the Great succeed in overthrowing the Persian Empire?

What household servants would a Tudor gentleman have had?

Did Gustavus Adolphus ever speak of making himself Emperor?

Why did Roman women have no praenomen?

What rank did cadet branches hold in the peerage?

Are there precedents of 'I am not a racist' from US Presidents?

Why did people have so many children in Victorian times?

To what extent is the independence of India a result of Indian Independence Movement?

Why are the democracies of France, Israel and India rated "Flawed Democracies"?

What was the opinion of Hitler regarding pornography?

What is "Distributed Survival Theory"?

Can anyone identify these uniforms?

Were Arctic communities aware how different daylight cycles were elsewhere?

Are there primary sources about Jinnah's vision for Pakistan?

Why was IJN apparently inactive mid-war?

How was the United States able to produce excellent tanks in 1942?

Is there evidence that Harald Bluetooth died from an arrow to the rear?

What did it mean to be a Grecian in late-18th Century British schools?

Demonym for someone from the kingdom of D'mt

Has there been a naval battle where a boarding attempt backfired?

Are there any examples of single combat between kings/generals ending a war?

Why didn't Caesar hire free men to do slave work?

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

Napoleon's Dresden Victory Double-Flank attack

Regional dominance of Sitka library

What is this (possibly Swedish) military uniform? Perhaps cavalry?

Why did the Targowica Confederation not realise its armed opposition to the May Constitution of 1791 would result in the entire annexation of Poland?

British war with France 1795?

Why was Kentucky not admitted to the Union in 1789?

What is this flag?

Were there high-ranking Japanese POW as witness at the Trinity Atomic Bomb Test?

Was there a massacre in the Algerian war calculated to provoke French reprisals?

How big was the kapa trade out of Hawaii?

How quickly did the knowledge of the existence of the new world spread into the old world?

Why did Drexler acquiesce to Hitler's demand?

Why didn't Hitler decide to wait until after winning WW2 to implement the final solution?

What was the cultural background of Burgundians?

How do Dambadiva kings fit in Indian history?

Where was Carl Sagan working on a plan to detonate a nuke on the Moon? Where was he applying when he leaked it?

Was The Prince by Machiavelli intended as satire?

Which European countries did not have a revolution in the aftermath of the French Revolution and why?

Did US and Soviet nuclear war policies allow for a pause?

Did any armies systemically favor axes/hammers over swords?

Which historical figure is attributed with the most death of his people?

How many suicide attack (kamikaze) pilots died and how many of them successfully hit ships during World War II?

What was the first regular airline service to pass low over urban areas?

What does this Samurai crest mean?

How would one refer to/address a Shogun?

Apart from the White Ship in 1120, have there been any other maritime disasters in which an heir to a throne and/or many notable people died?

Did Pythagoras visit Judaea, Arabia, and/or India?

Is there a historical reason for a pattern of worse technological standards beating out better ones?

How did Japan get so many Nobel Prizes?

When did Hinduism forbid overseas travel?

What is a "tar shower?"

Penalty for patricide in Ancient Rome

Toyotomi Hideyoshi threatened to exterminate all Japanese foxes unless he heard from the god Inari. What was the aftermath (if any)?

How did the Romans discover dry cleaning?

Why did the Monitor and Merrimac (aka Virginia) have such radically different designs?

Why is the Spanish-American War not called the Spanish-Cuban-American War?

What is the connection between the rise of modern football in the UK and the shortening of the work week?

In what year did Charles Proteus Steinmetz fix Ford's Generator for the famed $10,000 invoice?

Did Hezbollah kidnap Russian diplomats, and Russia subsequently dismember Hezbollah family members?

How were the borders of small European principalities maintained or secured?

What were the consequences of the bankruptcies of the Spanish Empire?

Why is it "an interesting commentary on the quality of Jefferson's democracy that he chose Madison as his successor"?

What was Ghulam Ahmad's relationship with the British authorities in India?

What is this 19th century British army uniform?

Heads of state convicted in international court

What effects did World War II have on Japanese animation industry?

Where (if anywhere) were X-ray machines put on trains or trolleys to image "Everybody over 14 years old"?

What could be the uses of a pike, other than for fighting, circa 1833 Ireland

Is this article on Nero even remotely accurate?

What was the purpose of each project site during the Manhattan Project?

Were there any political checks on the U.S. executive during their covert support of the military junta of Pinochet?

What were the neoplatonists' attitude towards Christianity (or religion in general)?

Did any other countries try to breed a race out like what happened in Australia?

Was slaughtering cows in Kamchatka prohibited in the 1820s?

Did the Romans leave any technical instruction manuals behind?

Was Buddha well known by western Romans in Late Antiquity?

What were the crime rates In the American Old West?

Where does this hairstyle originate from?

What was the ancient Jewish pantheon?

How come every culture on the planet has a different calendar, yet follow the same system for a week?

When did the spherical shape of the Earth become common knowledge?

Was the Church of St Simeon the Elder at Aleppo built while Simeon was still alive or decades after his death?

How close were the living standards of India compared to England during the medieval period?

Why did Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia remain loyal to France during and after World War II?

Can anyone identify these ships? And what year?

Did "el Empecinado" fight in the Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo (1810)?

Before Pearl Harbor, what percentage of Americans believed the US would stay out of the war?

Was there any imperial nation whose home country was conquered but was able to retain its colonies?

Why is Indonesia a Muslim country?

Why did ramming reappear then disappear in 1800s shipborn warfare?

What were the names of these two Ancient Greek boxing/pankration legends?

Is there evidence that Stalin stopped religious persecution during WW2?

Why was metal armor phased out after gun powder was weaponized?

Was the ancient Pontic city of Athenai (Ἀθῆναι) related to Athens?

Was Kamehameha I unique in elevating so many foreigners?

Why did the German air force lose experienced pilots faster than the Allies, even though they were defending their home airspace?

Were Tipu Sultan and his father sultans or prime ministers?

Before the use of Anno Domini dating (BCE/CE), how were years numbered?

The original Lord Haw Haw's life in exile (Ireland)

Reichsmark value

What's the difference between Country Born and Mulatto people in the 18th century New England?

What can these photos say about my father's service for the British in WWII?

What does D·G·R·IMP·S·A·G·H·B·REX·A·A·B·L·D stand for?

How was agricultural labour organised in Victorian England?

Did anyone in England in the 1680's wear a beard?

What are some instances of professional army funding being stolen in full?

Was the pigment minium (lead oxide) named after the river Minus in Iberia?

Is Maxwell really owner of Maxwell's Equations?

What would the Arch of Titus have looked like painted?

How were state-level suspects identified prior to photography?

Did Abraham Lincoln send a letter to Jefferson Davis about allowing slavery if he rejoined the Union?

Why did baseball become more popular than cricket in the USA?

Is there evidence that communists supplied drugs to West Berlin?

How effective was the (Western) Allies bombing campaign over Germany in drawing down the Eastern Front Luftwaffe?

U.S. biplane Identification

Did the Germans have a team equivalent to the one from Bletchey Park in the UK during WWII?

What do we currently know about the ethnic origins of Jews?

How did the civilian population of Nazi Germany react to Operation Overlord?

Did the Allies try to "bribe" Franco to join them in World War II?

Researching a Spanish document from the ~XV century

What were Rommel's views on the Nazi crimes?

How many people were affected by the Holodomor [Famine-Genocide in Ukraine]

Does footage of WWI bombing of London by zeppelins exist?

Which is the oldest of all Hindu Puranas?

Completeness of Old Parish Registers in the 1700s

What is / are the specific reason(s) for Vyacheslav Molotov's fall from grace with Joseph Stalin?

Historical examples and numbers for the value of ‘Jizya’ levied by Muslim states

What political events led to the Separate Car Act that was upheld in Plessy v. Ferguson?

What is the difference between a culture and a civilization?

Was the Tsar's property separated from state property in Russian Empire in early 19th century (regarding land)?

Was Bhai Mati Das sawed in half on the orders of Aurangzeb?

How are Kurds and Chaldeans related?

Why was the US table tennis team sent to communist China even after a difference in ideology?

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