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Is there an example of 2 opposing military forces both attempting pincer movements on each other?

Was Hitler released from jail in 1924 on condition that he ran democratically?

What were the most common reasons why draft-age men were not conscripted for the Union Army?

Where was the pre-war (ww2) border between Poland and Germany?

Why Americans like to enroll in military services despite huge risks involved?

Why were the Germans and Russians so fixated on an unlikely "separate peace" in 1945?

Why didn't the US produce stamped weapons like the Germans during WW2?

Nymphodorus of Syracuse

Was there a serious proposal to offer India territory in East Africa?

What music did a Napoleonic era campaigning soldier hear?

Why and how were east Brandenburg, Pomerania and Silesia taken away from Germany after WW2?

Why did the USSR give Crimea to Ukraine?

When did the first electronic body modifications take place?

Can anyone explain why a wreck of a battleship lies in the Nevada desert?

Vietnam war "blue tag"

What is the history of the tradition of the out-going president attending the inauguration of his successor?

During WW2, did the USSR re-gauge railways in conquered areas?

Are there post-1700 examples of large scale long term reductions in living standards?

When and where was William the Conqueror baptized or christened?

Where can I read the 1966 letters opposing Stalin's rehabilitation?

Why were the Normans such good builders?

When did Wang Mingzhang die?

How widespread was literacy in classical Greek in Europe during the medieval period?

Why did Charles V divide his holdings as he did?

Why did the Schlieffen Plan prioritize invading France?

What is this strange uniform?

Were door keyholes able to be peered through?

Why did the Dutch West India Company allow Quakers in the New Netherlands?

How do repeating historical conflicts get resolved?

What was the main purpose in Japan trying to capture the Dutch East Indies oil fields intact?

What is this 19th century British army uniform?

Hyrcanian Burial Practices

Why were schoolchildren in the USA taught virtually nothing about the Holocaust during the fifties and sixties?

What was the first recorded reference to the fact that the sun rises and sets at different times across the Earth?

Who is this person on the picture?

What was the significance of the term "Lollard" in describing religious dissenters?

What were the rules of the migration to the Louisiana Territory in USA?

Were major foreign films allowed in the USSR?

How important was currency inflation in Fall of Roman Empire?

What was the impetus behind the British Empire's acquisition of what is now Canada?

Was every man compelled to follow his father's occupation in ancient Egypt?

Are there any documented cases where a society was capable of large scale selflessness for the benefit of future generations?

What was (if at all) Hitler's Plan B if Molotov-Ribbentrop had not worked out?

Did medieval scholars believe the Earth was round?

Why did Hitler's order to give SS members German Citizen remain in force until the 1960s?

Were Confederate pikes just a curious item to laugh at?

What is the source of this quote about Demosthenes by Philip II of Macedon?

What were French actions against Germany during September 1939?

Why did the Allied Forces choose Normandy as their geographic point of invasion?

Did hanging tyres from Mostar's bridge help at all to protect it?

Were US Navy WWII-era submarine crewmen allowed on deck?

Is it known if Yeltsin was planning to give up power peacefully if he lost the 1996 election?

Were women in 17th century France as cloistered as suggested here?

Is Carolyn Seymour (the actress) related to Alexander von Benckendorff (the Russian statesman)?

What is the meaning of George S Patton's quote "Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more?"

How common was decimation in the Roman army?

Diminishing powers of the Roman Catholic church in international matters

Were naval mines an underutilized weapon in WW2?

Why did the Romans incorporate and rename the Greek pantheon?

Who's this Egyptian woman?

Who first said "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."?

Why was Hanford, Washington, selected during World War II as the site of America’s first nuclear energy plant?

M4A1 sherman vs StuG III ausf. G — what were the odds in favor of the Sherman?

Are there any reasonable sources of data on numbers of religious adherents, for different religions, throughout history?

What were the factors that caused the world to move away from the Gold Standard in the 20th century?

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

When was the property tax introduced in early Mexico? Who paid?

Where is Ivan the Terrible's Library?

How did Ceaușescu survive the condemnation of the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968?

Was the American Civil War the “bloodiest civil war in history”?

Attempts to return the War to the South's favor after Gettysburg?

Is it true that Hitler led to the invention of the atomic bomb by the Americans?

What did the smaller values from the "Percentages Agreement" actually mean?

Did USS Buck (DD-761) send the message “Temper, Temper”?

How did people in the desert stay cool in the past?

Was Islam really responsible for the Italian Renaissance?

Did Roman Empire elite believe in their gods?

Did "droit du seigneur" actually exist in medieval Europe?

Did the US wage war against the Ottoman Empire in 1917?

Did Germany have treaties imposed upon it after WWII that mirrored the weight of the Treaty of Versailles?

Who, if any, in JFK's inner circle argued against the plans for the Bay of Pigs invasion?

Was Senegal involved in the 1918 Russian Revolution?

Why were the doors of ghettos locked at night?

Did Einstein really say this quote about time?

When and how did David become the mascot of Florence?

The Sumatrans told Marco Polo that there was an island to the Southeast. Were they referring to Australia?

When did Germans stop supporting Adolf Hitler?

Cost of peacock throne vs Cost of Taj Mahal

What was British spy Greville Wynne supposed to be selling?

Why was Caliph Suleyman disliked by the noted generals in the Umayyad army?

By which year did smiths achieve the ability to handle metal in an exact way that's necessary for the printing press?

What is the source of the claim that Enigma codebreaking efforts shortened the Second World War by years and saved millions of lives?

Did the leaflets from the US to Hiroshima/Nagasaki civilians on bombing cities reduce the civilian casualties of the two nuclear bombs in August 1945?

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

Has any real-world culture actually included a "Life Debt" tradition?

Did Karl Marx openly advocate violence? (or against it?)

What is the historical evidence behind the claim that the Soviet armies perpetrated mass rapes during their stay in Germany?

What was the military strength of the participants in the Falklands conflict?

Anthropophagy perpetrated by crusaders?

Was there a Cold War era Russian safe haven city for politicians and scientists?

Why are flagpole tips spear-shaped?

What did the Royal Sussex Regiment do in India between 1891-1897?

Which names are correct? Mala vs Malka Zimetbaum and Edward vs Eduard Galinski?

Why can't people on the back of the phalanx "reorient" their shield?

Was Roosevelt the "biggest slave trader in recorded history"?

Did Iran host anti Soviet Afghan factions during the 1980's?

Can anyone tell me what this coin was used for, an approximate date and possibly what it’s worth?

Who was the first military force to use teppo (guns) in mass battles during the Sengoku-jidai?

When and why did Erasmus ask whether the Pope would govern the east better than the Turk?

What organization/agency/unit wore this uniform?

Columbian exchange in European grades K-12

Is there an historical name, or an example "character" from history, that encompases a sycophant?

Border between the Western and Eastern Roman Empires

Are there any contemporary references to the Battle of Badr outside of the Qur'an?

When was the term 'finishing school' first used?

How slowly, if ever, were Thracians Hellenized?

When did the United Kingdom become "United" rather than merely united? (I.e., that word became part of its name.)

When has serious unemployment among educated young populations not led to revolution or war?

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

What alternative locations were considered for the United Nations?

How many words were written before Gutenberg

Are there examples of stone age cultures living in proximity close to iron age cultures without adapting to metal use?

Why did the Republic of China retract its simplified Chinese characters?

Besides the Hebrews, were there any other ancient cults that used salt in animal sacrifices?

How alcoholic were ancient Greek and Roman wines, before and after dilution?

Is there any evidence that the fall of the Tibetan empire led to an increase in Buddhism?

Why did the British have so few destroyers going into World War II?

Was there ever any co-existence solution to peace with Israel that the Arab Palestinian side proposed or said would accept?

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

What kind of armor did the soldiers use in pre-gunpowder Southeast Asia?

Who were some famous Vietnam War Hawks and Doves?

Is there a name for the critical method of assessing historical narratives via the consultation of primary sources?

Where did the families of constables live in the middle ages?

What are the safeguards in the German constitution of 1949 against dictatorship?

What kind of uniform is this? (Circa 1940s, possibly Israeli)

What were whale brains used for?

What are the various theories behind why Toyotomi Hideyoshi ordered Sen no Rikyu to commit suicide?

In WW2, did Germany ever mine Uranium from Czechoslovakia?

Why are the Rohingya not recognized in Myanmar (Burma), amongst the other 135 ethnic groups?

What is the origin of Khans? Is there any link between South Asian Khans and the Mongols?

What was the troop ratio between the Reds and the Whites in the Russian Revolution?

Whom does this statue to the left of the cordonata leading up to Piazza del Campidoglio depict?

Why did the population of Anchorage, Alaska, increase by so much in the 1970s?

In what ways did the rise of a true middle class in Europe during the late 19th century become apparent?

Reference request - Books on Israel-Palestine conflict

After the American Civil War, which states had the most problems with rejoining the Union?

What factors led some South American governments to be sympathetic to Nazi war criminals?

What are the historical reasons for religious and political negative attitudes towards homosexuality?

When did mature redwood trees become possible to harvest?

How were/are days subdivided in non-Gregorian calendars?

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