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Can anyone help me identify this Coat of Arms?

Who was Yoshioka Matashichiro?

Did the Nazis regard chemical warfare as inhumane and "Jewish"?

Was there a direct telephone line between Stalin and Hitler during the war?

Is there a correlation or causation between generalized economic crises and world wars?

What, if any, celebrations or commemorations were done in 1000 AD?

Timing of Trotsky's Assassination

History of the Garani village in FYROM

Why did William Wallace lose while Robert Bruce won?

When did abolition of property qualifications for voting begin in the USA?

What was Hitler’s personal involvement in the Holocaust?

Why was Johannes Blaskowitz indicted at the Nuremberg High Command Trial

Why is the term "Ancestral Puebloans" used and not simply "Puebloans"?

Did Einstein really say this quote about time?

War deaths in France, 1919/1920

Why wasn't Persepolis on Darius' royal road?

Was there any other Germanic person who gained an important position in The Byzantine Empire other than Emperor Tiberios III Apsimar?

Can anyone identify this European ?naval uniform from photograph and likely date (belle époque)?)

How did the people of Massachusetts react to the territory that is now Maine being split off from Massachusetts?

Even though Spain and Portugal had many colonies (15th/16th C), what factors permitted UK/France to become world powers later (18th/19th C)?

Has the drought also revealed ancient structures in France as it did in Ireland?

Why did helmets have this metal thing between the eyes?

In Studying the peoples of pre-Roman Britain, what are our primary reference sources?

What did Lord Carnarvon study at Trinity College Cambridge?

Is it true that "All spicy food is from Latin America"?

Roman Coins (Ancient forgeries )

Why is the leap day on February 29th?

Where to find birth records for those born in Ireland pre-Independence?

is this a correct ottoman map in year 1803m

Are there any secular accounts of the Sadduccees?

Why did not UK assist Greece in 1919 war?

Why was Lafayette imprisoned after the French Revolution?

What is the large blue object on the right in this picture showing Greek fire?

Was Japan really part of the Axis?

Did a British civilian row across the channel and shoot 6 Luftwaffe pilots?

What was the structure of religious beliefs among the Arabic peoples before conversion to Islam?

Why was the bald eagle chosen as the national bird of the United States?

Why did the Soviet Union lift the Berlin Blockade?

Is there a link between the Easter rabbits and the Yaknehaz rabbits?

Was Pablo Vicente de Solá married?

Did 9/11 change people's behavior during the playing of the national anthem?

Was the 18th century Russian peasant braver; or simply more afraid of Cossacks?

How would Chess have been played in England in 1450-1600?

Was there the idea of "peaceful Crusades"?

When was France fully liberated?

Why did the expelled Sudeten Germans and Danube Germans go to Germany, as opposed to Austria?

How was Germany's border decided?

Was coat of arms of Afghanistan of 1928 influenced by Soviet symbols?

Did Stalin give special treatment for his home country?

How did pilots know when to release bombs on airplanes during World War2?

What is the name and meaning of a World War 2 CCC Medal with both the Polish Eagle and British Statant Gardant Lion?

What is this building called? (It was built in 2002)

How common was gun ownership by Londoners in the early 20th century?

How did criminal law work in the Roman Empire?

Is there any resource to learn interiors of a house for particular classes in 17th Century in Bohemia?

Why did Germany not colonise much?

Did the Gallic army besieged in Alesia conduct itself well when expecting relief?

In the Battle of the Coral Sea, how could two Japanese scouts grossly mis-identify two American ships?

Was the US's pre-emptive bombardment of Iwo Jima insufficient?

What's the origin of celebrating the anniversary of the death of a famous person rather than their birth?

How difficult was it to spoof the sender of a telegram in 1890-1920's in USA?

Rommel's letter to his wife from November 16, 1942

Why did Britain not purchase Alaska when Russia had it up for sale?

How do you estimate world population of 1000 years ago?

Is this a Sherman, and if so what model?

When was the tactic of chaining ships together last used in a major naval battle?

Did Churchill and Roosevelt know about the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, or the following secret pacts between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union?

Why did non prosecuted craftsmen go to the new world in the Roanoke era?

Why were proconsular appointments so staggered under the Principate?

Resources on the History of African Civilization

How did the Abbey of Cluny derive revenue from William of Aquitaine's hunting preserve?

Which was more revolutionary for its time: Television or Radio?

When did the practice of formal declaration of war start?

How successful was Odessa GubCheKa against criminal gangs in the 1920s?

Megafauna extinctions

What engineers chose the locations and oversaw runway construction for the airfields that the Flying Tigers used?

How kind were the Muslim occupations of North Africa?

What does "two ells within the selvages" mean in the Magna Carta?

Are there any examples of balistas, scorpions, or other catapult-like weapons being used in field battles

How did horses become animals of fancy while donkeys largely didn't?

How were the prime ministers of Japan selected during the Taisho era?

How to find out if this sword is real or just a souvenir?

How and why did the progress of Army Group A differ from what the terrain in the Caucasus might suggest?

British royal titles for regions not in Britain

Was the name 'Valerie' used during the Regency Era (1811-1836)?

How have European countries affected the caste system in India?

Why didn't the Roman maniple make a comeback in the Renaissance?

Did James Monroe and James Madison ever disagree?

A zoo during the rule of Omayyad or Abbasid dynasty?

What was the basic structure of power in the CPSU and how were the politicians at each level chosen?

What was the attitude of the Scientific community when Hitler accessed power?

What is the context for Napoleon's quote "[the Austrians] did not know the value of five minutes"?

Why were the Huns so successful at siege warfare but the Goths were not?

Was smoking allowed aboard hydrogen-filled zeppelins?

What did cataphract units wear under the armour?

Why did the Austrofascists fight with the National Socialists and vice versa?

What is the historic validity of "Nothing is real; everything is permitted" as the Assassins' motto?

How did the helmsman know what he was sailing towards with a big mast in his face?

Which eras have historians proposed that we are currently living in?

What was the original intent of US presidential power to pardon?

Was Rome exporting its trash to Egypt as an early example of recycling?

Was breaching the Yellow River dykes Chiang Kai-Shek's Mers-el-Kebir?

Is still Spain legally the Spanish State (apart from the Kingdom of Spain)?

Which historians argue that WWII was caused by Fascism as a reaction to Communism?

What caused women to lose their access to resources and become a part of men's possessions with the start of the agriculture era?

Status of merchants in feudal Europe

What evidence is there relating to Matilda of Scotland as a wife (to Henry I) and mother (to Empress Matilda and William the Adelin)?

What is the reason that European Democracies developed without judicial independence?

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

When did nonporous ceramic become widespread?

How did Lincoln know to stick with Grant before the completion of the Vicksburg campaign?

Was it ever possible for Germany to win WWII?

Matchsticks were invented in 1805 . How did humans get fire in everyday lives before then?

Did Napoleon write an elegy to Imam Hussain?

Why did Operation Market Garden go ahead when the allies knew German armor was in the area?

Was there a Spanish plan to retake Malta, had the siege of 1565 been succesful?

Why didn't the Ottomans conquer (what is now known as) Morocco?

What happened to Frederick II's library?

What were medieval, Viking-Era, Scandinavian laws regarding rape?

What would the Wikipedia page for Spain have said in 1490?

How did people put down a drinking horn?

In what sense is Socrates considered as the father of Western philosophy?

What was the Mantineian form of government and what praise did it receive?

Why do biscuits depict ships?

What capabilities did Southern soldiers in the American Civil War have to get news about the North?

Was Celtic society promiscuous?

Why did Vice President Bush hide when a reporter asked this question?

Why is the consensus that WW2 started on September 1, 1939 and not July 7, 1937?

List of Roman Imperial Coins ~0 CE/AD

Whereabouts of the ancient Korean cannon in Kamchatka

Did the deity "Horus" pre-date "Horus-Aha"?

Was any Church dispensation granted to Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine’s marriage?

What happened to Israel when Persia attacked Egypt?

Why does Texas have the right to split?

What caused scientific and cultural decline of East Roman (Byzantine) Empire?

What are this uniform and these medals?

Was it possible to criticize the government without repercussions at the time when the 1st amendment was adopted in the US?

How did the Allies deliver the Moscow Declaration to the Nazis?

Where, exactly, was the "Sudetenland?"

The Battle of Britain

Did ash rain in cities near Nazi concentration camps?

What was the average size of French families during the Middle Ages?

Has a battering ram been used to breach a gate?

Which Roman emperor destroyed a weaving machine?

What gave rise to the widespread popularity of coffee?

What were the first local currency systems in history?

Why did Charles V divide his holdings as he did?

Was Rudolph Hess a moderating influence on Hitler?

How did Urdun come to be called Jordan?

Were the "hussars" that Jan Sobieski used at the battle of Vienna actually elite troops?

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