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What caused the builder to change plans midstream on this 1905 library in New England?
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How far back in time have historians estimated the rate of economic growth and the economic power of various empires?
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Did the Founding Fathers of the USA really make a distinction between a Republic and a Democracy (and despised the latter)?
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Were any fortified castles self-sufficient in food?
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Was Croatia the first country to recognize the sovereignity of the USA? Was Croatia expecting military help from USA that didn't come?
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Was Croatia the first country to recognize the sovereignity of the USA? Was Croatia expecting military help from USA that didn't come?
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Why did Latin disappear so completely in Britain after the Romans left?
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Was it known in ancient Rome and Greece that boiling water made it safe to drink and if so, what was the theory behind this?
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Why was the US so pro-China and so anti-Japan before WW2?
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Is there any evidence to back up David Starkey's claim that infanticide of mixed-race children was integral to the Ottoman slave trade?
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What flag had a black cross blue field 1589?
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Where did the Gaels originate?
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What is the latest scientific consensus on the peopling of the Americas?
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What would military spies in 17th century Europe be looking for inside a city, before a siege?
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Why has the khopesh never been used since ancient Egypt?
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When and how did people begin to consider slavery immoral?
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Was Plato sold into slavery?
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How was Rome able to conscript and equip 400k soldiers during 2nd Punic War in a pre-industrial society?
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Is this a photo of a historical reinactment of an 1868 treaty signing?
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Is this a photo of a historical reinactment of an 1868 treaty signing?
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What is this glyph on Feb 23 1940 in a Finnish military calendar?
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Who was the first person to get a more accurate measure of the earth's circumference than Eratosthenes?
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What was this television history series?
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How does one "ride on the brake beam"?
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Have there been any plausible reports of killing polar bears with a bone spring?
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Who was Chief Poking Fire?
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Who first called natural satellites "moons"?
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Why didn't Aboriginal Australians invent agriculture?
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WWI trench tactics using shields?
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What was the economic incentive for "redlining"?
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How did early Judaism and Zoroastrianism influence each other, if they were so far apart?
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Were any U.S. founding fathers present at the storming of the Bastille?
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What is the origin of the "No Symbol"?
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Why does German money from the 1940s not bear Nazi symbols?
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When were collapsible umbrellas invented?
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Why did the Egyptians wait so long to introduce the leap year?
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Was the secession of the Confederate states illegal?
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Did the Dutch eat their Prime Minister?
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Has it been common for Lords to only address the House twice in their entire career?
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"More Frenchmen bore arms for the Axis than for the Allies during the Second World War"?
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Why are Spanish cultures labeled as 'Latin' today, but Italian and eastern Europe cultures aren't?
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Is this apparent story about how Julius Caesar selected soldiers true?
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Can Bill Clinton run for president of France?
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Why did epidemic disease spread only from Europe to America and not both ways in the Columbian Exchange?
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Why did epidemic disease spread only from Europe to America and not both ways in the Columbian Exchange?
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What is the earliest known historical reference to Tutankhamun?
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Did Arab policymakers have plans for the Jewish population, in case of victory in 1948 War?
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Was there a way for ships to disengage from boarding actions?
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What is the origin and rank of this military uniform?
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Why were slings phased out of medieval armies in favor of bows?
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Did early imperial China have a "uniform, multilevel administrative bureaucracy" that the Romans did not?
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Why didn't Israel officially declare war in several of its prior wars?
Awarded Oct 24, 2023 at 13:56
How much more damage can a big cannon do to a ship than a small one?
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Was there ever an attempt to give Native Americans their own country?
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Who are the "Millennial Folk" being referred to here?
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When was the last direct conflict within Israel's boundaries?
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Would the USSR have invaded Poland in WW2 if the Germans had not crossed into previously-agreed Soviet sphere of influence?
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What was the purpose of the breastplate rings on samurai armor?
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During World War II, did the Luftwaffe try to bomb 10 Downing Street?
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Where does the name of the country "Belarus" come from?
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