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Is there a formal ontology for documenting historical timelines?

What was the impact of race in the French Foreign Legion in the 20th century?

In the USSR, what if any was the formal, ideological response to the Cultural Revolution in China?

Why did Francisco Franco never reestablish the Spanish monarchy?

Why was Luodian important in the Battle of Shanghai?

What did anti-Greek stereotyping look like in the United States in the early 20th century?

What are the hay effigies in this Japanese movie?

Where is the tomb of Genghis Khan located?

Did the Welsh ever call Britain Albion?

What was Ghulam Ahmad's relationship with the British authorities in India?

How was the dynamics of a naval battle in the 17th century?

Who sold this book in London in the 1930s?

Why did Hitler send Manstein's army (and not some other) to Leningrad in the summer of 1942?

Was this anecdote about the bad effects of military secrecy told by Colin Powell?

Why would people join a bloc party?

What is the real story of the Lion of Gripsholm Castle?

Is there a good source for statistics of holocaust survivals?

How common were professional musicians before the advent of recorded music?

Was there relative peace in the Middle East before the end of the Great War?

Was Karl Doenitz repatriated to Germany after WW1 "as insane"?

Did the Mayans view the gods as antagonistic to humanity?

What happened to Gordian III in the Battle of Misiche?

Did the avenue of the Gods exist?

Who captured Kaifeng from the Jin during the war between Jin and the Sung Mongol alliance?

Ancient Greek term rendered incorrectly as numbers and Latin letters, "01KCDÇ". What is it?

In real terms how many alcoholics were there before prohibition vs after prohibition?

Republican thought in the Middle Ages

Did the slave trade from Africa to the Middle East decline during the 20th century?

When did this shipment of Babylonian painted tiles for the Louvre sink?

Was any stimulant used in wars before WW2 that gave a significant advantage to soldiers?

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

Where and when is this dragon watermark from?

What were the sources of Jewish immigration to Israel between 1939-1951?

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

When were country of origin labels (e.g. Made in France) introduced?

What was the age of majority in England in the 1870s?

Why in English do we say "Tsar of all (the) Russias"?

Why was the shape of German states pre-WWII (especially Prussia) so complicated?

Did Churchill and Roosevelt know about the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, or the following secret pacts between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union?

Who are the "Millennial Folk" being referred to here?

What was the origin and purpose of the "Montes"?

In 1914 why didn't Germany simply mobilize its army without declaring war?

Were alchemists respected in Europe?

How did Native Americans defend militarily?

When and where did socks become common?

What makes a distinct civilization?

Why did Sun Tzu believe you shouldn't wait beside a river when eager to fight?

When were domesticated animals tethered on a pole with a rope?

Why is Germany's history of colonialism and imperialism less prominent compared to other European nations?

Why were fragments of the Mongol empire named after colors?

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

How can I find out what the printed numbers mean on the back of an older photo?

What does "Depot Battalion" mean in Hart's Annual Army List?

Was the N.E.P. of Russia successful in terms of economics?

Earliest evidence of surfing

Why did the First and Second Industrial Revolutions start in Europe?

Was there a Roman city in the Plain of Sarajevo?

Homo Sapiens Sapiens: Are genetic studies to be trusted?

How and when was the Temple of Trajan destroyed?

Is the Sandracottus genus of beetles named after Chandragupta Maurya?

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

Who is the historical figure in McCarthy's speech, "When a great democracy is destroyed..."?

"Madam" in formal titles

Have the current polar ice caps receded further than those that existed before the beginning of the last Ice Age?

Origin of Diocletian's tetrarchy

Where was the Japanese surrender signed on Okinawa in June 1945?

Did the Germans purposefully arrange to send Lenin to Russia to start a revolution?

During the Chola dynasty how extensive was the use of Sanskrit in government and by the people?

Did the Canadian Tuxedo emerge out of the Wool Shortage of 1973?

What is the most important historical theme of Bronze age society

Was the 1959 Tibetan Uprising really an uprising?

Did medieval guards wear heavy armor for long periods of time?

Did Woodland period Native Americans seek/value gold prior to European Colonization?

Where does this hairstyle originate from?

Did "el Empecinado" fight in the Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo (1810)?

When did fluorescent lights become common in Europe?

What were the rejected designs for the Euro symbol?

What did Cosima Wagner mean by coating music?

How could Poles from Kresy be enough to repopulate entire regions of Poland?

Is this a true quote of Engels about vague Russian leaders and their vague followers?

Has anyone written a history centered on predictions/expectations about the future?

What aspects of Primo Levi's works are considered historically inaccurate?

What kind of slang terms were used in Massachusetts in 1947?

Typology and the cause of difference between European medieval kingship?

How would Zenobia's associates and servants address her?

Has a plague ever caused a civilization to collapse?

Did von Manstein push for mass production of late models PzKpfw IV over Panther or Tiger?

Where and why did the colourful houses of Bristol start?

Why does the Canadian Air Force name its ranks like its Army, whilst the Australian and New Zealand Air Forces use the Royal Air Force's?

How many ships did the fleet of the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC) possess at its peak (around 1670)?

Plans for More Nuclear Warfare in Japan during WW2

What is the history of the popped collar?

What did the word "fascist" mean in an early 1930's novel set in Italy?

Does anyone have a concrete example of the British Empire using revolution to gain control over foreign resources, governments?

What was the historical context of the 2nd amendment to the US Constitution?

Were any Californios able to hold on to their ranchos?

Why did Argentina seize South Georgia immediately prior to the Falklands invasion?

What was the League of Sublime and Perfect Masters?

Were "hitmen" a real historical occupation?

Stories from history of mercenaries who didn't get paid

Historical, academic explanations for the near-universal second-class citizenship of women?

What social relationships existed between the popular mobility and the political elites in the revolutionary American colonies?

The speed of sea travel in the beginning of 19th century

Did the Romans ever deploy troops to, or try to conquer, Ireland?

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

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

How old is Philippe Buache's map of New Discoveries?

Why were Civil War battle techniques so bloody, if the US had learned guerrilla fighting in the Revolutionary War?

What language did Brahe talk with Kepler?

Did Celtic druids teach in Greece?

What was the earliest known written constitution?

Help identify ship, possibly from New York area

How popular was the Soviet Union?

Why does the USA only have two political parties?

Did the Maya civilization recognize that it was into an ecological crisis?

What alternatives to working was proposed in Paris during May, 1968?

Why is there a Herakles/Hercules sarcophagus?

Which have been the most and least successful Olympics in terms of economic impact?

Why was Ormond Castle in Scotland so called?

How accurate/realistic is the conception of 'the kindly slave owner'?

Prisons in 1800s in Russian Far East

What Land Runs were there in the U.S., and were the Indians paid for their land?

How did Greeks view tall people, and was there a social premium placed on height?

Was the custom of covering Kaaba in black cloth adopted during the Fatimid era?

What were Yamamoto's intentions when the Japanese Navy attacked Colombo, Sri Lanka, in1942?

Were Communists drafted for the Vietnam war?

How common was training with swords and other weapons at Newton's time in England?

At the end of WWII, were Nazis working on any other super weapon besides V-2?

How did Mehmed II die?

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

Was Black Death a weaponised disease?

Who exactly were the Slovene White Guard?

How did one get accepted into university in 19th century England?

Could German citizens visit Japan during the Nazi era? And if so what would the locals think of them?

How was the Karwendel railway important to Germany's plans for WW1?

Emancipation Proclamation in a tweet

Why did navies abandon armour?

Help identify this camouflage military style jacket?

Were medieval city states like Venice and Milan feudal?

What happened during a Viking Feast?

Were there any top Nazi generals who opposed the idea to invade the USSR?

How did the Romans handle "fatbergs" in their sewage system?

What is a strong state in history?

How was Alexander the Great able to rule so much territory?

Is the ancient altar with petroglyphs at the foot of Jabal Maqla Mt. Sinai?

Is the Tokai Maru the ship that rescued many refugees from the 'Smyrna catastrophe' in 1922 or is it named Tokei Maru instead?

What coin is this and where is it from? Thai script, Thai arms. Rev: left facing portrait

How long did it take to build siege engines in the middle ages?

How do totalitarian states/empires usually fall?

Was coat of arms of Afghanistan of 1928 influenced by Soviet symbols?

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