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What factors permitted Buddhism to be successful in Japan but Christianity less so?

How were city government and law enforcement authorities organized in Northern Italy in the 17th century?

Whig party identification in the House of Lords

Can anyone identify this military uniform?

Did ancient and/or medieval cultures that emphasized the danger of religious pollution also exert more control over women?

Why are there naked ancient statues?

What happened to Saxe Altenburg circa 1827?

What was the aftermath of a battle in the Middle Ages? How did wounded soldiers proceed?

How were the Incas able to build such great works of architecture without using mortar?

Were there any ancient civilisation that functioned without currency or bartering?

What is the main reason for Germany's strong economy?

How was Abd al-Rahman I recognized when he arrived in Islamic Hispania?

Was the Athenian generals' trial after Arginusae a political one?

How were interracial relationships between African-Americans and Latinos treated in Southern states before the Loving decision?

How pervasive was the idea that we had reached "the end of history" in America during the ninties?

Is this excerpt from an AI-generated answer re Portugal in WWII based on any real events?

Did Josephus question the date of the destruction of the First or Second Temple?

When was the first full length book sent over telegraph?

What factors made Austria adhere to "Diplomacy through marriage" doctrine?

1985 magazine cover about Strategic Defense Initiative - Who is Darth Vader?

Did a fallen-out red signal lens ever cause a railway accident?

Did the people of the past consider plants alive?

Medieval Scottish clan society and legal structure

How did historical peoples deal with choking?

Has there ever been a month with 32 days?

What did "Publius" refer to in the Federalist Papers?

To what extent were practitioners of Judaism persecuted during the Soviet Union?

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

Modern navy ranks, roles and responsibilities

What did the Romans call black people (sub-Saharan)?

What "other property" was considered for representation at the Constitutional Convention?

When did podium girls first appear?

How did the Catholic Pope manage to become more powerful than Kings in old Europe?

In the days of slavery, were heterosexual interracial pairings more common with black men and white women, or black women and white men?

Where do I find treaties/acts granting French colonies independence?

Was it possible to organize a women's uprising or feminist movement in the Middle Ages?

What was the range of people's social lives like, before the technology for long distance communications developed?

Which have been the most and least successful Olympics in terms of economic impact?

Why did Byzantine champions (consistently) lose duels to Muslim armies' champions?

How prevalent was smallpox among the Norse in Northern Scandinavia, Iceland, & Greenland?

How can you see what rank a British redcoat is?

Is there any evidence that the US strategy at Midway was deliberate?

Why did the Allied attack at Gallipoli fail during WWI?

What was the world population around 970 BC? Does it fit the biblical narrative?

How is it known that Xenophon saw the ruins of Nineveh?

When is the first time any variation of the name Misraim is used to refer to Egypt?

What are the intellectual roots of the "French Republican identity" pursuit?

What attempts were made to limit Roman-era water pressure/flow 'theft' by code, pipe length, and expanders and by whom?

Did Joseph Goebbels really say this about German opposition in 1933?

Contemporary opinions on Caliph Omar's burning of the library of Alexandria?

Why was the Halifax death penalty reserved for thefts of at least 13½ pence?

Why didn't Wehrmacht soldiers refuse to kill civilians?

Chiang's allies were "a kidnapper, a hooligan and a bully" but which was which?

What is the average (or default if you prefer) human political system?

How did Hitler behave towards all those whom he knew in his childhood and youth after he rose to power?

Why did the Nazis guillotine criminals but mostly hang political enemies, and why were the White Rose group an exception?

What was the effect of the Panic of 1837 on financial/banking policy?

Star of the Allies

What did the post world war two civilian food ration consist of in the UK?

Tomb for Charles V (of france) and Jeanne de Bourbon in Saint Denis?

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

What were George Washington's beliefs behind the Church of England and Catholic practice?

Did the Germans attempt the easier or harder of two possible objectives in the Caucasus?

Request for ancient history video lecture references

How does finding a Franklin ship change what we know about the expedition?

Was the Pantheon completely underwater when Rome flooded?

Can the Largest Infantry Polearms be Wielded by Cavalry?

Why did Russia set up so many cities in Siberia and Far East?

Anti-Semitism and Edmund Burke

What happened to Marcus Licinius Crassus' Gold?

Is there a historic reason for why the Balkans are so fragmented?

Why is Richard I (The Lion-heart) considered to be a good king and Jean I a bad one?

Did Hitler, or any non USSR residents in the 30s-40s know about Stalin's purges?

What was it like for German Jews after WWII?

Harvard Architecture: How did Harvard Mark I separate data and instruction?

Where can I find all Hitler speeches in original German?

Noah Versus Utnapishtim

Why is the world composed of 55% Muslims and Christians?

Did a kamikaze ever impact the hull of a ship, as opposed to the deck?

Did some chemical weapons from the military end up in private hands after WWI?

Are there post-1700 examples of large scale long term reductions in living standards?

What is the current state of historical thought on the Aryan invasion/migration theory?

Mayan calendar coinciding with winter solstice

What if a slave entered a state without slavery?

Which of the Roman wars was the most important and riskiest for Rome?

Is there a name for the style of the 'superhero' Russian statues?

Why are doomsday predictions for 2012 seen as incompatible with historical Maya mythology/religion?

Absolute rulers who voluntarily resigned their power

What uncertainties and questions surround the death of Attila?

Can you identify this possibly Austro-Hungarian military uniform from either WW1 or before?

Who were the social elites of the European middle ages?

What are some items still existing today that were involved in the most killings?

Range of sailors' ages on a typical Pacific trading ship in 1810

Has any US President served in a government position with a foreign nation before or after their presidency?

Were slave rowers ever chained to the ship?

Were there natives In Iceland prior to the Irish monk's landings?

During the Míng Dynasty could local authorities make laws?

What are the social preconditions for division of labour, when compared in different emerging civilizations?

Why is Nouruz celebrated all over the Turkic states of the former Soviet Union, but not in Turkey?

Did Nebuchadnezzar And The Medes Ever Go To War After Their Alliance Against Assyria?

Can you identify the markings on this WW1 trench art?

Did von Manstein push for mass production of late models PzKpfw IV over Panther or Tiger?

Historically, why did the US station their nuclear weapons in Germany for delivery through German pilots?

How would one muzzle a full grown polar bear in the 13th century?

Can anyone identify these ships? And what year?

Who were the Hermotybians and Calascirians mentioned as making up the warrior caste of Egypt by Herodotus

What is the origin of the crest on this coat of arms found in a graveyard in the north of England?

How exactly did most nobles gain wealth?

Did Goebbels realize that his wife used to know Arlozorov?

How did Sweden come out so unscathed physically and morally from WW2?

Which Roman general was killed by his own soldiers for not letting them to loot a newly conquered city?

What are Kublai Khan's contributions to culture?

Was it customary for an executioner in Elizabethan England to ask for forgiveness from the executed?

At the end of the Seven Years War, what was the total amount of gold and silver in Britain?

Do we know if Patton ever said "l'audace l'audace toujours l'audace"?

Did the Roman government attempt to hide the collapse of the empire?

When did inadequate or inaccurate maps produce important historical consequences?

Question about pilgrims

Did the Chief of Soviet General Staff really say this?

Why was Axis intelligence so poor in relation to Operation Uranus?

What social problem would be solved by a GuoMinDang attack on Shanghai in 1927?

Is there a Russian Black Legend? (a dispute about the morality of Russia's colonial expansion)

Napoleon's Dresden Victory Double-Flank attack

Who is on the Nazi 2 Reichsmark coin?

Is there any evidence of post-landbridge travel across the Bering Strait?

Why did certain swords have the weird curves that they did?

Who did Mussolini meet after Hitler, on arrival to Germany after rescue?

Has there ever been a successful "Anarchy"?

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

Which Allied aircraft scored the most air-to-air kills against the Me 262 in WWII?

Who's this Egyptian woman?

When did the Pakistan army used tank for the first time during the 1971 Bangladesh war?

Curious office hours of Topographical Bureau where Napoleon served in 1795?

Is Caesar's birth year more certain now than it was when disputed by Mommsen?

What is the period/term used describe Giuseppe Arcimboldo's style of painting?

How severe was the 1943 Bengal Famine?

Why was gold so popular and valuable back when it did not have many real world uses?

Were new forms of communication and media usually condemned similar to how television/video games are now?

Who had the shortest time in going from imprisonment to head of state within democratic processes?

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

Did Muslims swear by "the beard of the Prophet"?

How did gladiators/assyrians kill large predators in single combat?

What is the oldest recorded cat name?

Did monotheistic religions play a role in shaping the belief that political power should be in the hands of an all powerful monarch?

How was King Henry VIII able to get syphilis?

Are there extant rancho budgets (original or contrived) for Mexican California?

Just how fanciful is Egyptology?

How did an English person get entry to East Germany during the Cold War?

What is the relevance of the Confession of Augsburg to the Colloquy at Poissy?

Why was the Israeli army strong enough to win the 1948 war?

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