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Why could Phoenicians sail past Cape Bojador but later Europeans could not until 1434?
Awarded Oct 5, 2021 at 10:41
Which state capital did the Apollo 11 command module NOT visit after it returned from the moon?
Awarded Sep 30, 2021 at 16:22
What determined which companies went to which post-Soviet republics after the fall of the Soviet Union as everything was centralized in Moscow?
Awarded Sep 21, 2021 at 14:15
Did viking longboats in fact have shields on the side of the ships?
Awarded Sep 18, 2021 at 10:52
Why did Austronesian/Polynesian people not colonize Australia?
Awarded Sep 16, 2021 at 6:25
How were smallpox vaccines enforced in the US?
Awarded Sep 13, 2021 at 19:27
How does this bird trap work?
Awarded Sep 5, 2021 at 20:03
What were the ethnic backgrounds of the slaves in Ancient Greece?
Awarded Sep 4, 2021 at 12:36
What are the primary sources for the Mongol sack of Baghdad?
Awarded Sep 1, 2021 at 21:36
Why isn't there a single trace of Germanic influence in Iberian Languages?
Awarded Sep 1, 2021 at 8:33
What was the economic basis for West Berlin?
Awarded Aug 31, 2021 at 18:20
Why did people have so many children in Victorian times?
Awarded Aug 29, 2021 at 20:07
Is Kemal Atatürk responsible for Armenian Genocide?
Awarded Aug 29, 2021 at 14:40
Is the claim that Hitler came to power democratically justified?
Awarded Aug 28, 2021 at 15:17
Why was the US so pro-China and so anti-Japan before WW2?
Awarded Aug 27, 2021 at 15:34
Did all the the -stan sovereign state names appear synchronously?
Awarded Aug 27, 2021 at 15:21
What was the 1970s name for skinny jeans?
Awarded Aug 24, 2021 at 14:30
Was climate a factor in the spread of Islam?
Awarded Aug 20, 2021 at 23:50
Was any city/town/place named "Washington" prior to 1790?
Awarded Aug 19, 2021 at 23:12
What is the reason for the modern prominence of the Confederate battle flag, as opposed to some other Confederate flag?
Awarded Aug 7, 2021 at 14:27
What was the pound (unit of weight) initially equal to?
Awarded Aug 5, 2021 at 10:47
What was the pound (unit of weight) initially equal to?
Awarded Aug 4, 2021 at 19:34
What did Germany do after World War II to recover so successfully that it became more prosperous than its WW2 victors?
Awarded Aug 3, 2021 at 7:41
Where did Asian Americans go to school during the 'separate but equal' era?
Awarded Aug 3, 2021 at 0:16
How and why did e.g. Chechnya differ in status from entities like Armenia?
Awarded Aug 2, 2021 at 6:41
What is the oldest authentic example of people complaining about modern times and the young?
Awarded Aug 1, 2021 at 10:23
Who said "If I want the opinion of the middle classes, I'll ask Her Majesty"?
Awarded Jul 30, 2021 at 8:35
Which general rebuked the King of England over logistics?
Awarded Jul 29, 2021 at 9:43
When were 'time zones' (or at least time difference) discovered?
Awarded Jul 16, 2021 at 18:18
Did Hitler ever tell a joke?
Awarded Jul 16, 2021 at 0:41
When were 'time zones' (or at least time difference) discovered?
Awarded Jul 14, 2021 at 14:25
How common were marital duels in medieval Europe?
Awarded Jul 13, 2021 at 10:26
What is a major historical event historians are deeply divided over?
Awarded Jul 13, 2021 at 7:25
Were lay people ever forbidden to read the Bible in the Christian world?
Awarded Jul 13, 2021 at 6:00
What is a major historical event historians are deeply divided over?
Awarded Jul 12, 2021 at 18:15
What is a major historical event historians are deeply divided over?
Awarded Jul 12, 2021 at 15:37
(Why) are there two different versions of the photograph of inmates at the Buchenwald concentration camp?
Awarded Jul 5, 2021 at 12:37
Did a significant number of women drive in late 1950s/1960s USA?
Awarded Jul 2, 2021 at 10:00
What were the long-term effects of Reconstruction in the South?
Awarded Jun 30, 2021 at 9:52
Where can I find information on a Polish castle dismantled by Sweden?
Awarded Jun 29, 2021 at 3:06
Were there German bomb disposal units in WW2?
Awarded Jun 29, 2021 at 0:25
Was there a tax in the fifties for British citizens traveling abroad?
Awarded Jun 23, 2021 at 8:41
What is the origin of the names of planets in Arabic?
Awarded Jun 22, 2021 at 15:56
Did the Spartans really taunt Philip II of Macedon with a single word?
Awarded Jun 9, 2021 at 12:40
Do any historians consider superior German airpower as the most important factor in the Battle of France?
Awarded Jun 7, 2021 at 21:01
Can anyone identify the military branch and rank of the man in the front row? This is from Germany @1932
Awarded Jun 7, 2021 at 14:28
Can anyone identify the military branch and rank of the man in the front row? This is from Germany @1932
Awarded Jun 5, 2021 at 23:21
Why did the German air force lose experienced pilots faster than the Allies, even though they were defending their home airspace?
Awarded Jun 5, 2021 at 22:41
Did medieval kingdoms issue health related guidelines?
Awarded May 30, 2021 at 21:05
Given Hitler's Austrian ancestry, why did he develop German nationalism rather than Austrian nationalism?
Awarded May 29, 2021 at 19:48
Has any country ever diverted an international flight in order to arrest a wanted person?
Awarded May 26, 2021 at 10:57
Does anyone recognize the identity and location of this octagonal structure?
Awarded May 25, 2021 at 2:40
Why was the knitting needle or the distaff a symbol to show contempt in the Middle Ages?
Awarded May 18, 2021 at 14:07
Why was the knitting needle or the distaff a symbol to show contempt in the Middle Ages?
Awarded May 17, 2021 at 19:51
Was the concept of religious freedom in the early United States applied to native American faiths?
Awarded May 16, 2021 at 13:03
Why did Hitler send Manstein's army (and not some other) to Leningrad in the summer of 1942?
Awarded May 10, 2021 at 14:25
Why did the Mongols destroy the library during the siege of Baghdad in 1258?
Awarded May 8, 2021 at 14:03
What were the reasons for Japan's surrender in WWII?
Awarded May 5, 2021 at 14:07
What are the immediate legal effects of rendering a royal branch illegitimate?
Awarded May 5, 2021 at 0:21
What was the "Favorable result" that the German admiralty was expecting from the naval attack on the Royal Navy in 1918?
Awarded May 4, 2021 at 18:17
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