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Disappearance and reappearance of helmets in European armies circa 1600 to 1900

How did British people cope with damp/mould without central heating in the past?

Why did Peter the Great tie particular expenditures to particular revenue sources?

How aware was Europe nobility of the danger of consanguinity?

Where/when does the wok start to differentiate itself from pot-style cooking vessels?

Was Jesus depicted as dark skinned during the beginning of Christianity

How did people 'park' their horse and buggy in early 20th century cities? How was theft prevented?

When Israel won the Six Day War, did they consider expelling all Arabs from the annexed territories?

Where do the terms Red Team and Blue Team come from?

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

When did people first started to consider lead poisoning as a possible problem?

Did Stukas support Schmalz Panzer corps and what about air interdiction?

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

How did militia barracks look in the 19th century?

Why were Catholic priests prohibited from participating in ordeals but allowed to participate in inquisitions?

When else has an incumbent president alleged election fraud by a challenger?

Australian Head of State

How would residents of Central Slovakia travel to seaports in 1880's?

How did St. Genevieve manage to feed the Parisians during the 10-year-long blockade?

Why were northern Native Americans less urban than central or southern?

How were British tea taxes collected in Boston in the early 1770s?

What is an example of effective flanking maneuvers in medieval battles?

Does Taleb's claim of epidemics with a death count of >1,000 being in the lower hundreds (in the last 2,500 years) seem accurate?

What was the actual dispute that triggered the March 2013 anti-Muslim riots in Myanmar?

History of the 1793 revision of the constitution of Vermont

How did Churchill and Stalin intend to translate the percentages in the "Percentages agreement"?

What are the primary sources for the Mongol sack of Baghdad?

Who governed London during the Great Plague?

During the Siege of Alesia, why were certain Roman forts located outside the circumvallation lines?

Did a ritual of pushing 60-year-olds off a bridge really exist in Archaic Rome?

Did Native Americans sabotage telegraph lines running through their territory?

Has there ever been a truly multi-sided war?

What is the real origin of the stereotype that associates fried chickens with African Americans?

What race were the invading Turkish armies of Anatolia?

Were the events in Nemmersdorf a PR stunt of the Nazi propaganda?

Why did the USA ever test nukes on their own soil?

Where did Cimon spend his time while in exile?

How common was decimation in the Roman army?

Can anyone verify this story about the President's driver?

How obvious was lend-lease equipment to the average Soviet soldier?

In Dutch history two people are referred to as "William III"; are there any more cases where this happens?

In what respect could Italian Renaissance be considered a phase of romanticism?

Why did piracy thrive in the late 17th and early 18th centuries?

Did Napoleon ever visit Modern Israel?

What music did a Napoleonic era campaigning soldier hear?

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

As newly independent countries after WWI, why didn't Baltic states have sovereignty dispute and war each other like other Eastern European countries?

Identify Helmet (possibly WW2 British)

Why did people die for their religion in the 400s CE (or even now)?

Did Comecon [even] fail to standardize container sizes?

Why did the Swabian Hohenzollern princes give away their power to the Prussian king in 1850?

What was the "Brakteaten" medieval monetary system?

How frequently did monasteries attack other monasteries in Early Medieval Western Europe?

Time of day first traffic light exploded

What was the population of the Roman Empire?

Was there a plan "B" for the D-Day?

Which calendar to use in English for non-European countries?

Amount of ammunition typically carried by an C18th British redcoat

Was Romania under German command during WWII?

How was the first official geographical border established in Europe?

Were there often intra-USSR wars? If not, why not?

How did Heian Era Japanese Clans work? (esp. Taira vs. Minamoto)

What, exactly, was the role of Bertrand du Guesclin in the Hundred Years' War?

Who were the earliest Californian university students?

Did ancient people understand divinity in the same way we do today?

How quickly did the term "nuclear fission" spread?

When was slavery abolished in Russia?

Were there many instances when an "overaged" commander was at odds with a much younger second in command?

Did the 'founding fathers' of the United States see Oliver Cromwell as a role model?

How did European monarchies become nation states?

How did the world react to Trotsky's assassination?

Were there socioeconomic reasons for the decline of Athenian democracy?

What are these old Chinese books?

Who was the last leader of a country to call himself a dictator, or the last regime that called itself a dictatorship?

How densely populated were the Americas prior to European colonization?

How was money transferred in early 1900s' Russia?

Can anyone identify this sword, believe to be Ottoman Empire (Turkish)?

Why acquire real vs forged signatures?

What is the source for this Leonardo Da Vinci quote?

What calendar did the Mauryan Empire use?

Request for information about an Auschwitz-Birkenau story

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

How big a factor was the failing economy to the downfall of the Roman Empire?

What language did Nazi German occupying forces speak in France?

Can anyone identify this military uniform (1900-1915)?

In the Middle Ages - 18th century, how long would it take for a blacksmith forge a regular farming scythe to a war scythe?

How were the first computers on the internet connected?

Were there concrete plans, 40-41, for Japan to attack Singapore/Indonesia, while avoiding a fight with the US?

What did Alexander Hamilton write about Aaron Burr's daughter?

German influence if the Nazis had won

Did slaves have slaves?

Did any country threaten war on the US because they didn't pay their debt after the Revolutionary War?

Did ancient people use punctuation?

Why was California admitted as one big state rather than split up?

Where can I find digitised versions of Japanese war documents in original Japanese?

Who left Fort Ross to defect to Mexico?

Did American Indians disrupt railroads in their regions?

Was Plato present at Socrates' trial?

Early modern vs late modern vs post modern?

Which year in history had the highest ratio of non-natural deaths?

Why was 6 WTC not included in the plans to rebuild the World Trade Center?

Who were the first people to get divorced in Western* Christendom?

Quantitative comparison of transportation cost per kilometer over the centuries?

What was the typical speed of a tramp steamship?

What was a "cable station" in WW2 Pacific War?

How could the 4/5 devaluation of Franc Poincaré in 1928 end the financial crisis France was going through?

How did France balance the budget by 1738?

Why is the island of Java so populated?

Is there a Greek myth of Poseidon "dating" his daughter in the form of a dolphin?

In Edwardian England, did poor families arrange to have their children buried in the graves of unrelated adults?

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

Linen doublets around 1380-1410, middle and eastern Europe

Has there ever been a US election that flipped as many state seats as the 2010 midterm elections?

History of eponymous cities

Did the Sword of the Republic really fall from the Arc de Triomphe on the first day of the Battle of Verdun?

Was there ever a strategic concern about East German refusing to fight against West Germans (and vice versa) if the cold war had gone hot?

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

Were China's problems in the past two centuries due to "missing out" on the industrial age?

In 2018 US Dollars, how much was Picasso's painting sold for in 1912?

Was it ever possible to join the US military instead of going to prison for a crime?

Know of any historical tales in which a man kills the woman he loves as a sacrifice in the name of duty, religion, etc.?

Have the Arabs ever conquered Kayseri?

How far could Mongolian horses travel in a day?

What factors explain Indian territorial restraint towards Pakistani occupied Kashmir despite military success against Pakistan?

When did Greek historians stop believing Greek mythology to be historical fact?

Why did the Ottomans 'never' enter wars during Napoleon's invasions?

What are good online sources for historical maps?

Did the chariot drop in importance between bronze age Greece and the iron age Greece? Why, why not?

Is Armenia the first Christian state?

Who was Professor Henri Andre and what did he publish?

Were the greatest rulers from before the Classical Antiquity known by ancient historians?

During the French Revolution, how did the French address non-citizens?

What effects did World War II have on Japanese animation industry?

Did Mussolini know that Hitler was going to attack Poland?

Was public transportation free in the Soviet Union?

What happened to all the scholars and scientists of Western Rome during the barbarian invasions?

Ancient Greek or Roman Teenaged Suicide for Glory

Are the proportions of a Christian cross based on a golden ratio?

What flags are on display in “Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States”?

What's Mussolini's first known statement about Hitler?

How did early Rome mobilize?

Anti militarism

Live mummification

Why are lower court jurists, judges, and supreme court jurists, justices?

Did Indigenous Australians burn land to get Europeans to move on, and did Europeans follow suit?

When has the U.S. refused to pay its debts?

Do we have any records of what pirates during the golden age of piracy would actually sing?

What impact did the rocket inventions of the German rockeeters have on WW2?

Did Andrew Jackson threaten to kill the Vice President?

Why was Archbishop of Carthage, Cyriacus, arrested?

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