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What was the impact of Fischer vs. Spassky 1972 on the relationship between the USA and the Soviet Union?

What did Cleopatra's nose look like?

How much firepower did the British navy represent in 1940?

How common / uncommon was sword-vs-sword combat on ancient battlegrounds?

Is the story "Conquistadors using plans of Constantinople in the new world" factual?

How did Finland treat Jewish locals during WWII?

Were major foreign films allowed in the USSR?

What primary sources are there for Charles I's seizure of gold from the Tower mint?

When and where did it first became usual that the ID Card holder signed his card?

What is the other ancient Indian magic trick described by Adi Shankaracharya?

What hard, physical evidence is there that Davy Crockett actually died at the Alamo?

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

Who got a pardon from Gabriel Narutowicz?

Is there documentary evidence that Stalin intended/prepared to fight Germany after the Nazi-Soviet pact?

Was Marie Antoinette considered a fully legitimate bride for the heir apparent to the French throne in 1770?

When and how did steel supplant iron for artillery?

Have there been government conspiracies that were successful for over 25 years?

How did Hedy Lamarr acquire scientific education?

What happened to dead WWI soldiers whose faith believed in cremation?

Have there been any known cases of governments/military powers PRETENDING to be incompetent, as a sneaky form of security?

How did people wake up early before clocks?

How common were private bathing facilities in Late Republican Rome?

Can the current British monarch be overthrown or otherwise replaced?

What did the Baltic Fleet do in Reval in 1904 and when was it there?

What was the prevalence of ethnic minorities in 15th century Bohemia?

What was the source of "presidium" as used by the Soviets?

Did any Nazi TV news broadcasts survive?

Did Ancient Egyptians in the 2nd millennium BC practice Astrology?

"Ridiculous" military haircut in Spanish California

Is Howard Roark's potted history of architecture accurate?

How powerful was the Malian empire?

Why did Western Christian monasticism really take off in Ireland?

What are these cubbies?

When did horseback riding start? Are Doosheh cave petroglyphs authentic and correctly dated?

What was the age to ascend to the throne as Khan/Khagan?

Why did Robert Walpole get painted with a crown on his right side?

How Much Did World War Two Cost Financially?

Why is Hungary geographically important to travel between Europe and the Middle East?

Where can I find information about Johannes Pohl?

How did such a relatively minor event as the assassination of an archduke start World War I?

What Calendar was used in Carthage?

When did Germans begin to call themselves "Deutsche"?

What is the etymology of the word "Mehrgarh", one of the earliest Neolithic site in South Asia?

In a challenge to duel, what happened if a thrown gauntlet (and later, glove) was refused?

Who said "Lafayette we are here!"?

Why is the Harappa (Indus Valley) civilization considered one of the six independent cradles of civilization?

If the prices for cotton increased during the Industrial Revolution, how would the increase affect the market for farm land?

What Roman legions were present in London (UK)?

Will Hegelian or Dialectical historiography regain any relevance into the contemporary historical discourse?

What were pre-internet stock books called?

What was 250,000 rubles worth in 1918?

Are fiefdoms near the Capital assigned to trusted allies or the opposite, and why?

Was Hagia Sophia built over a pagan temple?

When did Europeans stop writing the month with Roman numbers?

Why was the Deutschland so ineffective compared to the Admiral Graf Spee and the Admiral Scheer?

Was German ever an official language in the USSR?

Did the people who jumped from the World Trade Center during 9/11 lose their life insurance policy due to committing suicide?

Why did the East India Company accept the Government of India Act 1858?

Is it true that Newton ordered the hanging of counterfeiters?

Did the drapes in old theatres actually say "ASBESTOS" on them?

How frequently were girls adopted in Ancient Rome?

Were aerial dogfights during WW2 and WW1 typically very one-sided?

Who is responsible for the partition of Palestine?

Why is Indonesia a Muslim country?

Emancipation Proclamation in a tweet

Why was uranium mined in the 1500s, but only "discovered" in 1789?

How did the Romans mint coins?

Did the ancient Greeks ever climb Mt. Olympus?

Did barbarians capture monks or priest of civilized kingdoms to teach them?

When did "whites only" signs (racial segregation) become illegal in the USA?

At what height were Gargoyles typically used in Gothic architecture

What country has had territorial disputes with the largest number of neighbors/other countries at the same time?

Why was France granted an equal status among victors of World War II?

Difference between acts of "merit" and acts of "valor" in military decorations? (e.g. V device)

Is there any history magazine like "Foreign Policy" for politics?

What is the correct English terminology to refer to New Mexico and Texas under Spain, then Mexico?

Why was Japanese Unit 731 immune from War Crime trials?

What was the military background of the Irish company at the Siege of Jadotville?

How historically accurate was the Queen's trip to Ghana portrayed in Episode 8 of The Crown?

Why didn't the eunuch faction improve stability in Imperial China?

Were bicycles widespread in the Soviet Union?

What toilet facilities were available to commoners in the middle ages?

After the Cold War, how did Berlin develop so much more rapidly than Moscow?

Did Jagdgeschwader 7 operate any Bf-109s?

Why did King Charles II cede New Amsterdam / New York to his brother James, Duke of York, in 1664?

More Scientific Discoveries Outside Academia Past 50 Years?

Why did ancient cultures (e.g. the Mesopotamians) use sexagesimal?

What equipment and formations did the Muslim armies employ against the Crusades?

What was the standard pistol used in Yugoslavia during WWII?

History of eponymous cities

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

Published History of Harvard

How did Brahe get to Prague?

What are the grenades and artillery cited in this testimony?

Why were Sri Lanka and Myanmar separated from India under the British Empire?

What is "quarter column"?

Did men and women feast together in early medieval East Francia?

How were British monarchs educated about military strategy in the Middle Ages and early modern period?

Why were bows referred to as "Indian Artillery"?

Why did US helicopters suffer mechanical failures in Operation Eagle Claw?

Historical examples of energy wars

When was Khemet renamed to Misr?

What's paradoxical about British free trade in 20th century partitioning of Africa?

What are the 'mushroom trusts' referenced in Churchill's "Second World War"?

Why could Phoenicians sail past Cape Bojador but later Europeans could not until 1434?

Trying to identify this sword. Think early 20th century. Maybe ceremonial

Government started within another government

Was Queen Elizabeth II ever the head of state of Namibia?

When was the Passover Seder ritual formalized?

Why didn't the Khalkh Mongols support the Dzungars in their fight against China?

Has the UK ever used the Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act 1987 to enter an embassy without approval?

What happened to the other European residents in Khartoum in 1885?

What happened during a Viking Feast?

How did US anti-Irish sentiment decline?

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

Martin Luther's 95 Theses

What did whistling bombs actually sound like?

What role did the Eastern Roman Empire play in the fall of the Western Roman Empire?

Why did Bavaria join Prussia/Germany instead of Austria?

What nullified the Missouri Compromise?

How did East Indies oil lose its "top billing" in the Pacific War as the war went on?

How could Stutthof's inmates reach Palmnicken?

Did war bonds have better investment alternatives during WWII?

A magic system at least partially based on the real-world cultural history of magic?

Do detailed records exist for artillery usage by the Nazi military in 1945?

Was there a German re-urbanization plan for after WWII?

Is it true that medieval villages didn't have names?

Why did Stalin deem Quantum Mechanics 'counter-revolutionary'?

Why were the Mongolian armies able to to use greater percentages of archers than (Medieval) Europeans?

Why did Tokugawa Ieyasu oppose Hideyoshi's plan for expansion?

What divided the Roman Catholic church from the Orthodox church?

What is the nature of the Hyksos territory in Transjordan and northern Arabia depicted on these maps?

is this a correct ottoman map in year 1803m

Why was Stalin chosen as the First General Secretary in 1922?

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

Is it correct that many historical resources about Islam are written by Muslims?

Mudéjar revolt of 1264–66: how were the Mudéjars armed?

What proportion of US government revenue came from taxes on slaves, between 1790 and 1846?

How much money did the participating nations spend in the Napoleonic Wars?

Were Egyptian Pharaohs literate?

Are stories passed down from generation to generation considered primary sources?

Did Edward VIII's abdication follow constitutional procedures?

Can the Largest Infantry Polearms be Wielded by Cavalry?

What was the Japanese or Axis motivation to drag US into the War?

Has a plague ever caused a civilization to collapse?

Did Saint Paul preach at the Theater in Philippi?

Why did Ancient Greek religious monument (herms) have genitalia?

Oh the humanity!

How were USSR oblasts and cities governed?

Why was the the sack of cities acceptable?

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