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Did Nazi propaganda about the USSR change after the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact?

Historical examples of advanced societies that abruptly abandoned or changed religions?

When was encrypted voice over radio first used?

Impact of the spread of disease from non-Europeans to virgin populations in the Old World

Was it ever possible for Germany to win WWII?

Has there ever been a month with 32 days?

What does a slitterman do?

What office or status did these individuals hold in Roman-Britain based on their attire?

Which culture used no personal names?

Which figure is this a statue of?

What is the status of Weber's protestant ethic thesis?

When did the Commonwealth of England start being considered a Republic?

Where did the term "Radical Republican" come from?

Are there any historians who believe that the crusades were not motivated as a distraction from internal conflicts?

Why did South Korea not go the same way as South Vietnam?

Were there any attempts to assassinate Joseph Stalin?

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

Was there a major Mexican military disaster in the Navajo Wars?

What do we currently know about the ethnic origins of Jews?

Has a state ever "attacked" another one by printing fake money?

Did Heisenberg undermine the German atomic bomb by deliberately hiding his expertise from the Nazis?

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

Historically, what has happened to emergency services (other than the police) in corrupt/authoritarian states?

Evidence of diets that were exclusively vegetarian

Athenian Democracy - How were the citizens motivated to be so politically active?

At what point after the war did Confederate money begin to attain value again?

Has the US Congress's power to declare war been rendered superfluous by recent conflicts?

Did nomadic Bedouins outnumber sedentary Arabs in 7th century Arabian peninsula?

Where are the descendants of Mughals today?

Who is the man in the red jacket in this painting?

Is it true that Spartan soldiers fought naked?

Why did the Balfour Declaration of 1926 and Statute of Westminster (1931) only deal with Dominions?

How did the ancient Chinese coordinate armies of tens and hundreds of thousands?

Japan is known for being isolationist, so what cultivated its history of interventionism in the 20th century?

Book about the story of a WWII photo analyst looking for V1 launching ramps

When did Vladivostok become usable year-round?

Did the Portuguese and the Spanish have slaves on European soil working for them?

How many people were fighting in the North Korean Army in peak strength in the Korean War?

How long before an event gets into history?

Buddha in Ardha-Naarishvara sculpture in Badami Cave temples?

How did American colonial rights and conditions compare to those within the British Isles?

Did early northern Europeans drink alcohol?

Who won the wrestling match between Lincoln and Jack Armstrong?

Where was Olitei?

What was the Ancient Egyptian's word for eleventh or twelfth?

Why did Gibbon call the Aegean Sea 'Holy'?

What is the oldest discovered Neanderthal boat or raft?

sense of time in people with no means for time measurement

Is there support for the theory that the 1918 influenza resulted from churning up microbe-laden French soil?

What is the dating of the earliest manuscript of the Book of Arda Wiraz?

Why did the German army execute so few soldiers in World War I compared to most other armies?

Kingdom of Judah under Babylonian rule

Were there reasons for Japan to go to war with the US aside from the US owning Philippines?

Was "Nobody intends to build a wall" Machiavellian?

Were Pharaohs still inscribed on walls and written on papyrus after their deaths?

How were concussions treated in late 19th-century America?

Did Imperial Japan persecute Slavic people, as European fascists did?

Who did the middle class in ca. 1850- ca. 1900 France constitute of?

Were Roman marching songs still bawdy during principate/dominate?

Why did the US use so much ordnance during the Vietnam War?

Why the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–55) was "the last of the old sieges"?

Are there historical instances of the capital of a colonising country being temporarily or permanently shifted to one of its colonies?

Manichaeism almost becoming state religion of Roman Empire

What is the source for this story about Plato expelling a student?

What are the dates of these panoramas of Paris?

Could Columbus have suspected the New World lay on his path to India?

Why was there no concerted effort to end the Barbary pirate raids until the 1800's?

In segregated South, would Asian-Americans be treated as "colored" or as whites?

Where is the bloodiest area with most deaths within a single day?

Why was Independence Day in America established on July 4?

How did/do Sumerian numbers sound?

How did gold come to symbolize lower ranks than silver in the United States Air Force?

When and where did Louis Blanc say the famous "from each according to his abilities..."?

What is this card, and why does it go "on the hat"?

During the WWII, did the German Luftwaffe ever have mixed units of Bf-109s and Me-262s, and if so, which units and/or which airfields?

Before Liberty Ships became widely available, what kind of cargo ships supplied Britain?

Reichsmark value

Was "Mad Anthony" Wayne of the Continental Army really that cruel like shown in this video?

Were Jews cut off from the Babylonian Geonim?

What percentage of NAACP in the 1910s was Jewish?

How were the earliest automatic traffic lights automated?

What made the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb such a significant archeological find?

Why didn't Britain or any other European power colonize Abyssinia/Ethiopia before 1936?

When and where was the first time moveable bridge?

What is the source of "the three most useless things in the world are the Great Wall, Pyramids, and the Yamato"?

Was Plato sold into slavery?

What precipitated the Meiji restoration?

How can I date this carved wood sculpture?

Why are some Pharaohs depicted wearing the red or the white crowns even after the unification of Egypt?

How was the term "global" popularized by Nazi Germany?

Why were the Maya's cities abandoned?

Was garlic an Egyptian deity, based on Pliny the Elder's "Natural History" (Book XIX, Ch 32)?

Was simply addressing the English monarch wrongly ever a punishable crime?

Would the original readers of Lewis Carroll's books have made connections between the experiences in the books and drug use?

What was the population of the Roman Empire around 210 AD?

At the beginning of English Civil War, why did Parliament take a hard line with neutrals, thereby effectively helping Royalist recruitment?

Why wasn't England/Britain officially an empire (as a form of monarchy)?

How did MILAN ATGMs make their way to Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion?

Why did Russia expand eastwards?

How would the Germans have sent the Zimmerman telegraph if the German-American telegraph line was cut?

Are there any examples of overpopulation?

Is this anecdote about use of poison in guerrilla war mentioned by Schopenhauer based on facts?

In the Medieval period, how long would an average swordsmith need to forge an average sword?

Who did Mussolini meet after Hitler, on arrival to Germany after rescue?

Was PepsiCo really sixth largest military force?

How safe were ancient boats on the sea?

When and where, exactly, did the concept of a male god eating grapes orginate?

Did (other) PRC or Soviet leaders give 3+ hour congress speeches?

Did the Soviet Union need both prongs to succeed at the Battle of Stalingrad?

Is Dual alliance, Entente Cordiale in this context?

Why were Royal Navy ships forbidden to attack the ARA Veinticinco de Mayo in Argentinian waters?

How did Henry Knox retrieve the cannons that fell into the river?

What era is this German 10 DM banknote from?

Did a German Jew in the US Army save his home district from bombing?

Is Rama Setu a historical proof of Ramayana?

Was the treatment of US diplomats in Germany after the declaration of war during WW2 typical?

Why were there so many known (and caught) stage coach robbers?

Republican thought in the Middle Ages

How successful was Odessa GubCheKa against criminal gangs in the 1920s?

In comparison to today's tanks, how powerful were various WW1 artillery pieces?

How do I organise my "What-if" research paper?

What does "Central Europe AG 2006" mean in discharge papers?

How to identify this coin with a bust on one side and the letters S and C on the other side?

Why are Mary I, Mary II and Anne not as famous as Elizabeth I, Victoria and Elizabeth II?

Addiction in history

Was the term connoisseur used during the 1400s?

Whatever happened to Turing's friend Arnold Murray?

What was the ethnic composition of Soviet government?

Nymphodorus of Syracuse

Did the people who initiated the trans-Atlantic slave trade think they were doing something new?

Have any artifacts or archaeological remains from the White Ship disaster of 1120 ever been recovered?

When was the last cavalry charge?

Why was North and South America less developed than other parts of the world?

Chinese legendary figures with European appearance

How "successful" were WWII pigeon-guided missiles?

Was the British Empire bigger than the combined empires of the Iberian Union in terms of claimed land area?

Were there established "denominations" for coins of different metals in ancient times?

How was the 1849 "Proclamation to the People of California" announcing the formation of a Constitution communicated to the people?

Are there confirmed cases where a country changed its language without being conquered?

What was the third best-selling book in the antebellum US?

What do these terms in Caesar's Gallic Wars mean?

What does this quote from the Roman imperial poet Rutilius mean?

Is there any archaeological evidence for the Dorian Invasion of Greece?

Was the name 'Valerie' used during the Regency Era (1811-1836)?

Why did stock brokers go bankrupt after the crash of 1929?

When did Nuremberg adopt the Gregorian Calendar?

What's the text in "Mystische Jagd" by Martin Schongauer?

Why didn't China assist in the Vietnam War like they did in Korea?

What was Yugoslavia doing in the Angolan Civil War?

Why did the Confederacy think they could win the American Civil War?

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