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Did Moscow have natural gas in the early era of the Soviet Union (1917 - 1930)?

What portion of tariffs was paid by Southern states before American Civil War?

Were smoke signals used in conflict between European-American and Native Americans?

What's the difference between Potur and Şalvar?

How did the debt collection of Gregorius IX work?

What did ancient Romans use instead of shampoo?

What is the difference between NKVD and OGPU (USSR)

How much protection did Fort Warren afford Boston?

Did any British police force rank "Senior Superintendent"?

What are the historical equivalents of cooperative storytelling like modern role-playing games?

Why was China so underdeveloped until not so long ago?

Has the USA ever taken unilateral military action?

Around 1640s, at what time did people eat Christmas dinner?

Roman consuls under Roman rex

Did Crusaders' siege Nablus and then massacre Muslims?

Is Caesar's birth year more certain now than it was when disputed by Mommsen?

Place and/ or plane identification

Gazan attitudes to Egyptian rule 1948-1967

Spain's tributary empire vs. Portugal's seaborne empire

Why didn't America finish Saddam Hussein after the first Gulf War?

What resources did the Nahua value most at the time of Spanish conquest?

How could nonconformist Protestants be buried in graveyards controlled by the established Church before 1880?

Last death caused by World War I

What events led to the fall of the Zhou Dynasty during the Warring States period?

What is the oldest road tunnel in the world?

Why weren't R-4 helicopters used in the European theatre in 1944-5?

How was security on the Silk Road between China and the West maintained?

In the French Empire, what was the difference between french colonies éphémèras and comptoirs français?

What benefits were there to the USA of developing both Uranium and Plutonium bombs in World War 2?

What are the major religious 'families' which formed independently of other families?

When did the Ciboney arrive on Cuba and displace the Guanahatabey?

When was France fully liberated?

Were there any attempts to achieve peace in WW1 before 1918?

When did horseback riding start? Are Doosheh cave petroglyphs authentic and correctly dated?

Is/were there cases of hazing and violence against younger conscripts in armies of Arabic countries?

How did Kolmogorov help protect Moscow in WW2?

If adultery was a felony during Hamilton era, why isn't he prosecuted?

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

Has anybody ever tried to use sea animals to pull a ship?

What is the difference between a culture and a civilization?

Were the problems Fibonacci solved in his work "Flos" posed specifically for him?

What prevented the USS Franklin (CV-13) from sinking in March 1945?

In WW2, what was the first employment of the VT Proximity Fuze?

Was murdering a slave illegal in American slavery, and if so, what punishments were given for it?

What does the abbreviation "adhib." mean in historiography or archival science?

Did Western governments object to repression of western communists during Stalinism?

Was Casablanca a "safe" place for the Allies to hold a global conference in January, 1943?

From Twitter: When did Islamic literacy fall behind?

Was the Gulf War 1990 a complete surprise, or was a military build up evident?

When is the crossed sword and baton alone? When does it appear with the crown?

When Adam Smith discusses "corn" to what crop does he refer?

Vikings: The sagas of Ragnar Lothbrock and his sons

Could a nobleman / lord join the clergy in the middle ages?

Nothing is discovered until a white man finds out about it

Would Plutarch be considered a historian by modern standards?

Did Hongwu Emperor flay 5000 women, and why?

What caused the turning point in Hundred Years' War?

Gold coin vs Silver coin exchange rate fluctuations in antiquity

When was the first confirmed circumnavigation of Africa?

What happened to the Wehrmacht after the German surrender?

Is there a list of UN peacekeepers that ditched their posts?

Who created the Korean Unification Flag?

What makes studying science different from studying the history of science?

What is the difference between OBV & SBV, in Babylonian texts translated to English?

Where did the South Dublin/"D4" accent come from?

When and who did the Legislative Assembly banish from France during the French Revolution?

Who started/popularized the department store perfume gauntlet?

Why did serfdom disappear gradually in England?

Would a Roman emperor during Pax Romana be recognised by Roman Britons as a king of Roman Britain?

Sources for letters written during the Boer Wars?

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

What was the opinion of Hitler regarding pornography?

Other than coffee and tobacco what major product became Cuba's source of wealth in the 18th century?

Were the English behind the creation of Belgium?

When did the last (non-tourist) commercial stagecoach line run in the USA?

What was the sentiment regarding government control of railroads in Gilded-Age America?

When did the allied "Desert Air Force" in North Africa smash Axis armour?

What is the earliest mention of space travel?

What are the stages of traversals of the Mediterranean Sea?

Why did WWI include Japan?

Why is the heir to the British throne called "Prince of Wales"?

Number of artisanal working hours spent on making Terracota Army

Could the Russians Have Done Better at the Battle of Tsushima Straits Than They Actually Did?

Why are women banned from Okinoshima island in Japan?

Napoleon's medals

Did Perry's Black Ships attack Edo harbour during his expedition to Japan?

Why did pastorial people from central Asia migrate to Europe?

Why did the Australian IOC deny that Peter Norman was excluded from the 1972 Olympics for supporting racial equality?

What is the history of the Roman ogee shape?

What happened to the Parthians?

What would be accurate illustrations of vikings and viking culture?

How long does a generation last?

How many people were killed by Protestant Inquisition style tribunals? Asking for references/estimates

Were there any gunner aces of WW2?

How many Mendeleyevs there were?

Where did the archived discussions in Google Groups come from?

Who is this monument near Huesca for?

Why did Charles the Bold have long fingernails?

What were the criteria for class ranking at West Point prior to the Civil War?

Examples of internment or deportation of enemy aliens in the US after WW2?

Did USSR ever consider invading West Germany during the Cold War seriously?

Why did Persia adopt the movable-type printing so late?

Why are some Americans more religious than European counterparts?

Was Eumenes really a non Greek by birth?

When did blade fuller appear?

Did Victorian parents raise their children "sexless" to prolong innocence?

How long would a letter take to arrive in Geneva from Ingolstadt? (Georgian era)

Why was the area now known as Liberia chosen as the location for repatriation of African slaves in the US?

Has any country, other than Britain, given away its empire?

what is the history of naming newborn in different community?

Why didn't the British test the effects of shells on trench warfare defenses?

Megafauna extinctions

Why did Nepal and Bhutan not become a part of India like other princely states when colonial rule ended?

When was the restaurant "invented" in Europe?

Is there any evidence that the US strategy at Midway was deliberate?

Were any fortified castles self-sufficient in food?

Luftwaffe Operations from Syria/Iraq in 1942

Is there an accepted explanation for multiple independent "cradles of civilization"?

How was the Luftwaffe able to destroy nearly 4000 Soviet aircraft in 3 days of operation Barbarossa?

Did the chronicler William of Malmesbury write that William Adelin threatened to make Anglo-Saxons 'draw a plow like cattle' when he became king?

Early reasons to bury the dead

What did the ancient Egyptians think of Khufu?

Was lying morally wrong in Medieval Europe?

Did the Glaswegian tobacco lords help precipitate the American war of independence?

In the biography of Turing by Hodges an ancient Celtic tradition is mentioned of killing the last to arrive

Was there other research focusing on the medical uses of ether in the 18th Century?

Why did the baths of Bath need a hypocaust?

Besides Mexico, who was considered as a potential ally of the Central Powers?

Croatia's reparations to Serbia after WWII

How was the current month and day disseminated to the townspeople of Medieval Europe?

Why was there a tradition attached to Crossbowmen?

How would “distraint of knighthood” law in medieval England fit with the fact that all knights must be of noble birth?

Were political parties in the U.S during 1918 as polarized generally as they are now?

Why does the Spanish Military Medical Corps use the Amalfitan Cross?

Which roman emperors were not born in Rome?

How common are major cities not built by abundant water?

When did "skipping" grades become common and when did it stop in USA?

The role of the two world wars in the evolution of Fordism

Who decided on the name "Mexico"?

Why China was able to unify and not Europe?

Were slaves allowed to use the Roman baths?

Why is there no Islamic architecture with glass in windows before the 18th century?

Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs jʿr.t (iaret)

What was the first assassination/murder recorded on film?

Why did Hitler order counter-attacks as late as 21/04/1945?

Who inherited from the pre- World War II German states?

Who were some Greek Plebeian Gentes, especially from Magna Graecia?

Were grapes luxurious food in Ancient Rome?

How can one reliably date a carved stone item or structure?

When Lehman Brothers collapsed, what happened to their clients?

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