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Did American policymakers seriously consider scaling down Lend Lease Aid to the Soviet Union after the battle of Kursk?

What is the origin of US south region white people?

How did France balance the budget by 1738?

Was there ever a male-equivalent to a harem in the Ottoman Empire?

How wealthy was Singapore at its independence (1965)?

Has there ever been an encirclement without superior numbers or mobility

Did the Yamnaya have a particular breed of dog? Did that breed spread with them?

What is the reason that not all roman emperors named a month after them?

Is the expression "Seal of" on the Seal of the POTUS redundant?

Slave owners mobbed and murdered?

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

What is the difference between a professional historian and an amateur?

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

Are there known completely sealed chambers in Egyptian pyramids?

Why was Maharana Kumbha killed by his own son?

Why was it tradition to offer 'half-baked cake' to departing students?

Where is the location of this large stump and monument (lighthouse?) background?

How long did it take approximately for a person to travel from Basel to Hanover (1753) by any means of transport?

Song school vs. Han school of Confucian thought in the Qing dynasty

Has there been any culture where men typically have longer hair than women?

Did the Nazis identify as being Fascists? How exactly did they view themselves?

Strange symbol on Midwest brick home

Identify this sword!

Why did JFK give approval for the CIA to encourage Diem's deposal?

What was the average size of a guild in 13th century Europe?

Would the USA staying out of WWI have prevented WWII?

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

Was it common practice in Victorian London or other Western European cities to name locations as places where fictional characters lived and acted?

How much did helping the American Revolution cost France?

Did the Vikings practice voluntary human sacrifice?

What Factors Contributed to the Success of Certain "Long March" Strategies?

Why didn't every nation commit genocides against every other nation when they conquered land?

Why do we clink glasses and say cheers?

Why did relations between the USA and the USSR break down in 1945?

How did society regard identical twins in the 17th century in Europe?

What are the tabs/spaces for in the Beowulf text

Why did Saladin show kindness to Richard I?

How did the European and international left react to the Cafe War?

Is it true that there was no such thing as a Hispanic-owned bank in the continental USA until 1969?

Is there folk knowledge associating late breastfeeding with low intelligence and/or gullibility?

How did an input of resources in 16th century Spain contribute to inflation?

How was the administration of the liberated part of The Netherlands organised between 12 September 1944 and 5 May 1945?

Until when did Castile consider all Basques to be noble?

Was there ever a type of powered model car/vehicle racing, where the cars were in no way controlled, and were all on the one single shared track?

Why did people in some countries start to drive on the right?

How many humans were killed by Alexander.the Great, versus Genghis Khan?

Identification of the dagger/mini sword which has been in my family for as long as I can remember (and I am 80 years old)

How does a commander estimate enemy's losses?

Gender Color Association: When did boys become blue and girls pink?

What will be the regnal number of the next Queen Mary in the UK?

What is the definitive biography of James Madison?

What was the first assassination/murder recorded on film?

Did migrating people ever maintain contact across the Bering Strait?

Did Ancient Rome use lead styli?

When would one carry a sword on a shoulder with grip upwards?

Why the M24 Chaffee was not used as a tank at Dien Bien Phu?

How did the the Soviet-China near-war in 1969 affect the supply of arms to North Vietnam?

Who would qualify as British subject during the Victorian age of the Empire?

Class-conscious, non-Marxist historiographies

Are there non-russian sources related to how Rurikid Dynasty became rulers of Russia?

What happened to the foreigners in Germany during the Nazis?

Do historians support the existence of brothers to Jesus?

What were traffic lights like in the USSR?

When did druids become widely accepted as 'shapeshifters'?

If modern human existed for hundreds of thousands years why was writing invented only some 7000-9000 years ago?

What is the equivalent in France of the "Victorian era"?

What were the needs of the US Navy that resulted in the production of both the Arleigh Burke class and Ticonderoga class in the 1980s?

Why did typesetting allegedly "make it difficult for illegal copiers"?

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

Does history use hypothesis testing using statistical methods?

Did the pope try to suppress the number zero?

How severe were the casualties in ancient/medieval battles?

Did the historic events behind the film The Big Short happen under Glass Steagall?

How did one look for missing people in the 19th century?

What is the oldest building in the world still in use?

How does history as a scholarly discipline or disciplinary practice justify its existence as a social practice?

How did women's roles and rights change during the early Republican period in China?

Why does the Navy’s army need its own air force (U.S. Marine Corps)?

How tall was Brutus?

What were birthdays like in Medieval times?

Who are the three people in the Twilight Struggle card "Red Scare / Purge"?

Why are scientific and medical training so different?

In World War II, why was the ratio of killed to wounded of the Royal Navy twice that of the US Navy?

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

When was the last coal mine in Germany established?

Trying to understand the idea of a totalitarian administration from the pages of history

Which lame moor was the namesake of Rancho Moro Cojo?

Was Mary Stuart's execution not accompanied by attainder?

Can oral tradition be used as a source in scholarly papers?

Why might one think that Australia gained independence from the UK in December 1920?

Did the Allies benefit, by having Italy fight on Germany's side rather than remain neutral?

From which Russian-American Company ship did Osip Volkov defect to Mexico?

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

Why didn't Japanese infantrymen and samurai use shields?

Did Thomas Paine really give up book royalties?

Why were bows referred to as "Indian Artillery"?

Are there good examples of American frontier gangs terrorizing towns?

Has capital penalty ever been a municipal-level decision?

Why weren't the New Territories ceded to the British instead of leased in 1898?

Will coronavirus go down the history as a disease of biblical proportions?

Is there any way to link John Marshall to Andrew Johnson's impeachment?

Which Imperial Russian officials created and verified passports?

Was Russo-Polish of 1919-1920 a war of independence?

Why did it take so long for humanity to be able to cross the oceans?

Can anybody identify this uniform?

Seeking identification of a military uniform in a watercolor painting

Can Alexander III of Macedon's success be attributed to good logistics management?

Most fought over piece of land?

Eastern and Southern Europe in the medieval time period?

What exactly is this 1795 German "Berichte" Document?

Other examples of Enclave created for protection of a Mixed Race

How was the vast Khazar fortress of Sarkel destroyed?

Is "Lenin’s Testament" authentic?

What was the ancient Greeks view on people of African descent?

Does a description of the original design for the Great Seal of the United States by Simitiere survive?

Roman Empire Netflix Map

Why did the Arabs start the 1973 War during Ramadan, and did it affect their performance?

Why did Bierut threaten to murder families of those who did not join him?

What determined which companies went to which post-Soviet republics after the fall of the Soviet Union as everything was centralized in Moscow?

When and why did round coins become a practical standard?

How did Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof end up on the list of prisoners to be released, by Black September?

As many Germans fled Nazism, did some spies mix in?

What police department served the Kenwood neighborhood in Chicago in 1907?

Are there any ideas as to what the English landscape was like before the arrival of the Angles?

Did Charlemagne save Latin literature?

How did the conquistadors imagine the "lake of gold" to be like?

What is a WW1 water detail?

How did the countries devolved from USSR turn from communism to democracy or other ideology peacefully after the collapse?

When did military leaders in the field start to put units or ships as tokens onto a map and to move them around?

Perception of the state by an average person in pre-modern times

Why did the Allies Invade French North Africa?

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

Did Hirohito offer to stand trial for war crimes, but was turned down by the US?

How were the beds in which privileged man in medieval Europe slept?

Why did fighter pilots wear their hats lopsided during the World Wars?

What did the Musa Dagh monument look like?

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

Use separation papers to identify a US soldier's WWII service in Northern France GO 46 WD 45

Were there any developed countries that became "undeveloped" for reasons other than war?

What caused Iranians to convert to Shiite Islam?

To what degree did women participate in the air war during WW2?

Why have population maps indicated a stark divide in population density of the United States on either side ot the 100th Meridian?

What was the dominant government system in the 1600s~1800s?

Why did water stored on premodern ships "go brackish" or "go bad" while at sea?

Why does the US House of Representatives have a ceremonial mace, but the Senate does not?

Why Did the Founding Fathers Create the Electoral College?

Why didn't the Communist Party in Czechoslovakia use the military to suppress the protests during the Velvet Revolution?

Which mythological/historical/fictional character is cited as a symbol for constant improvement or dogged persistence in re-doing his task?

How many pens were used by MacArthur to end the final chapter of World War II and where are they now?

Quesnay, Adam Smith, and Pitt

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