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Were there any non-Afrikaner apartheid supporters in South Africa before 1994?

What is the age of Machu Picchu principal temple?

When did humans start numbering years?

Is Japanese democracy an isolated example?

Why is Crispus Attucks the one who gets all the attention?

Would Victorian era British soldiers wear their short sword bayonets while wearing uniform when off duty?

How many aircraft participated in each of the three waves against the Yamato?

What is the 'rank switching' done by Roman Legionnaires in HBO's 'Rome' called, and did it actually happen?

What was the "high Commissioner of the Police in Scotland" in 1777?

How common was it for people to live 80+ years in the 17th century?

Why did Athenian philosophers praise Spartan culture and laws, which would preclude philosophers like themselves?

Why didn't Britain's nuclear weapons deter Argentina from invading the Falklands?

Did the polytheist Greeks or Romans call their priests “father”?

What were some Greek equivalents of a Roman triumph?

Many Questions Regarding the Principality of Theodoros

What responsibility did Golda Meir have for the Yom Kippur war?

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

Are there any other "Delphic Temple"-like sites in the world?

What do the last four digits of this postal cancellation stamp mean?

Did Archimedes have any students?

What were the religious effects of the initial Arab conquests in the Byzantine Empire?

How did the Romans salute the Republic?

Who is the last known non-natural US citizen who would have been eligible for the Presidency?

Underground Tunnels in New York City and Boston

Was there ever an occurrence of diplomatic communication using food?

What were the main clans of the Sengoku period?

Have there been instances of a monarchy being reintroduced after being abolished?

Did Vietnam have to pay back the Soviets / China?

How did Britain govern the thirteen colonies?

Did Muslim women in colonial India before 1939 have to become Christian to divorce?

Were there more robberies of "commercial" or "personal" nature in 19th century in USA?

Did the Persian Empire really finance both sides of the Peloponnesian war?

How exactly were beer/bread made in Ancient Egypt?

Did the Mexican province of Nuevo Mexico have its own provincial flag?

How many unarmed did Che Guevara kill personally or by order?

How were "Wehrbauern" (soldier peasants) in medieval Europe even a thing, at all?

Is there a record of a rabid human attacking another human?

How did medieval architects determine sizes and numbers of pillars, buttresses etc?

Can anybody identify this uniform?

Why is there a big gash in the side of the Pyramid of Menkaure?

Are there any cases of rewarding an enemy commander for sparing a city from looting?

Was Fascism tied to any Specific Ideology Before Nazism and Italy's Fascist Party?

When did Cicero Minor die?

What is the reason for the modern prominence of the Confederate battle flag, as opposed to some other Confederate flag?

Were certain soldiers considered to be neutral by both sides?

Why were the populous coastal areas of China not linguistically united?

What were "prison-bars" (some sort of "amusement" or "athletic exercise")?

What did Moritz Ormai forge and what happened to him?

Did Demosthenes complain about inflation of prices in philippics?

Ancient Roman garments apart from the toga

Does Hitler's "Mein Kampf" contain hints that he wanted to exterminate Jews on the scale that actually happened?

How many times did Germany try to negotiate a peace in WW2?

Where can I find the earliest surviving versions of Herodotus's Histories?

How do historians and linguists know how to pronounce the names from non-phonetic scripts?

Was the 18th century Russian peasant braver; or simply more afraid of Cossacks?

What sort of Cardinals were Richelieu and Mazarin?

After their rise to power in 1932, were any of the elections or referenda under the Nazis legitimate?

What was the military makeup of the Baltic tribes/Lithuania from 1200 to 1500 AD?

Which method of telephone calls was more popular: station-to-station or person-to-person?

Through what developments did Sweden end up in war in northern Africa in early 1800's?

Were there rules about the number of retainers for the Achaemenid Empire?

Literacy in the classical world

Book recommendation on the Nazis for a (very) advanced reader

What did Kong Rong say about Cao Cao that got Kong Rong killed?

Was drinking coffee with milk illegal under the Ottoman Empire?

Has the accounting services industry ever been disrupted in the U.S.?

Where can I find a picture or physical description of the A3 scramble telephone system?

When were the first heating apparatus used for bathing?

Were any German cities spared by the Allies for personal or idiosyncratic reasons?

In the past were there gifts on the days leading up to Christmas instead of them all being on the one day?

Who invented the Airplane?

Did everyone have to carry identity papers in Nazi Germany?

European Life Expectancy Comparable? Now or When?

Can someone identify this military uniform?

What did Hitler mean with the following statement about Franco?

What demographic of people were the Ford Motor's Company biggest customers during the car boom of the early twentieth Century?

The Needham Question: What stunted China's technological and proto-scientific advancement?

Why didn't Germany blockade the Strait of Gibraltar during WW2?

US Army stations in France during World war 2

Why are there 37 numbers on European roulette wheels?

Why was Queretaro chosen as a fail-safe capital of Mexico?

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

In medieval Europe, were children born in an annulled marriage automatically illegitimate?

What kind of atomic bombs were anticipated after Nagasaki?

What does "two ells within the selvages" mean in the Magna Carta?

Has anybody a complete list of Obelisks in the World?

When did the current 7-day week cycle begin?

What did the Musa Dagh monument look like?

Was the Eye of Providence also a symbol of Bavarian illuminati?

Why is there a Pegasus on Huey Long's grave?

Is there a source for Medieval army composition and tactics across cultures?

What was the largest battle fought by ancient Rome?

How did residents of Estonia and Latvia prove that their family settled in the country prior to 1940, in order to become citizens in 1989?

Which trade route took the longest (in time) to travel?

What is the evidence for North Korean famine of 1990s?

What are this uniform and these medals?

How does a commander estimate enemy's losses?

To whom does Napoleon refer in this letter to Josephine?

What honorifics and forms of address were appropriate for 17th century Spanish nobility?

Who discovered cancer in Egyptian mummies?

When was the use of detailed maps for military campaigns widely adopted?

How close did the French come to digging a canal across the Isthmus of Kra in the 1880s?

Wasn't it a tactical mistake for Saladin to send fruits and water to Richard I when ill?

Did emperor Kangxi indirectly contribute to China's massive population and subsequent problem?

When were swords last used in European warfare?

Who was the oldest recorded participant in a battle whom we know of?

Did emperor Nero later regret his treatment of early Christians?

Exact date of Aquitania uprising over Charlemagne?

Who started the "katana is the soul of the Samurai" meme?

What was the UK Constitution in 1776, regarding taxation and representation?

Do negotiations/concessions to dictatorial powers always bring them to wanting more?

What book on liberty did Lord Acton not write?

Does the Proto Canaanite ‘mother serpent’the Pyramid text of Unas/Wenis have another known name or epithet?

For steam trains, what kind of deaerator was used, if any?

Did Arabs actually raise a red flag on the dome of their commander's marquee during the Haraam months?

Why did Italian artillery perform so badly during WWII?

Were the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki necessary?

How much is known about the Earl of Sandwich's sandwich?

How was Napoleon's invasion of Russia supplied?

Who is the great Epstein?

Zoroastrianism and Hinduism

How "successful" were WWII pigeon-guided missiles?

Are there historical examples of countries using pandemics as an excuse for banning protests?

Is there a general term for epicycles, deferents, and eccentrics in Ptolemaic astronomy?

How democratic was the ancient republic of Rome?

How was the naval battle of Guadalcanal affected by Japanese ships loading High Explosive shells rather than Armor Piercing?

Why did France surrender so quickly during ww2?

When was this photo of Mission Dolores *actually* taken?

When did divorce become legal in California?

Why was the Spanish kingdom in America called New Spain if Spain didn't exist as a country back then?

Did genocide occur in the Football War?

How did Taiwan participate in the International Geophysical Year of 1957-58?

Did Roman statutory law in the 1st century allow for crucifixion of non slaves?

Were there ever any farming societies without a calendar?

When did hanging emerge as a form of capital punishment?

Has an underequipped army ever won a major war?

Why did Canada, Australia and New Zealand separate from the UK?

Who thought there might be a war between the British Empire and the United States of America in the 1920s?

Why did so many ruling European families hold on to Catholicism during the Reformation?

Why did Japan not withdraw from China as its pacific front was crumbling and the threat of US invasion imminent?

The 2011 Libya action by France, UK, US was supported by a UN resolution - but was it subverted for regime change?

How did a nomadic minority group the Manchus come to rule over China?

Were there witch-hunts or witch-trials in China or Japan?

What was going to be Hitler's next plan after taking Russia?

What languages were common in first century Jerusalem?

Was the ancient Roman King ( i.e. rex) elected for eight years?

If the Iraq War was because of their oil, has the US achieved their war aims

Who originally described Attila as "Attila The Hun"

Wreck of the Juno

How secure was Germany's last foothold in the Caucasus in 1943?

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