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Why did submarines even try to torpedo destroyers when destroyers are faster, more manoeuvrable, better armed, better equipped to detect submarines?
Awarded Apr 27 at 14:19
How did Pythagoras study in ancient Egypt?
Awarded Apr 21 at 21:09
Who was in charge on cattle drives? (Cowboys)
Awarded Mar 29 at 18:01
When & where were three masted ships invented?
Awarded Mar 27 at 22:27
Have armed forces ever transfused their wounded soldiers with blood forcibly collected from enemy fighters or occupied civilian populations?
Awarded Mar 21 at 13:33
Is there evidence of someone in the Fujiwara clan killing another Fujiwara in the Heian period?
Awarded Mar 18 at 0:39
Is it plausible that Disney’s Agrabah is an Indian city?
Awarded Mar 16 at 8:26
What did it mean when a 19th century UK man was a "blocker"
Awarded Feb 21 at 15:45
Could a Sergeant become a Knight Templar?
Awarded Feb 14 at 3:53
What is Marx's conception of science in the labor theory of value?
Awarded Feb 11 at 18:01
What is the meaning of this road sign: upside-down black triangle inside yellow circle?
Awarded Feb 7 at 15:01
How was column size determined in the scrolls of the Classical Romans and Greeks?
Awarded Jan 22 at 18:34
Where would one find the AI / ML translations of Sumerian and Akkadian Cuneiform tablets accomplished approx. 2023?
Awarded Jan 19 at 4:20
Did the widely-reported espionage story involving kefir really happen?
Awarded Jan 4 at 15:10
Where did Thomas Aquinas get this quote from?
Awarded Dec 18, 2025 at 17:10
Was the American public familiar with Santa's 8 reindeer prior to "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"?
Awarded Dec 16, 2025 at 21:50
Did Hezbollah kidnap Russian diplomats, and Russia subsequently dismember Hezbollah family members?
Awarded Nov 26, 2025 at 12:07
How did the Mongol Empire manage administration and communication across such a vast territory?
Awarded Nov 25, 2025 at 22:18
Why is the linear model of human history treated as fact, while the cyclic model is dismissed as myth despite evidence of global catastrophes? [closed]
Awarded Oct 20, 2025 at 19:42
What kind of knife did people use to cut open cows?
Awarded Oct 16, 2025 at 22:35
When was this photo taken?
Awarded Oct 16, 2025 at 18:31
What has happened to proximity fuzes after World War 2?
Awarded Oct 11, 2025 at 13:20
In 1944, were American civilians able to buy 5 US gallon jerrycans?
Awarded Oct 9, 2025 at 21:13
Who is the model in this Edward Burne-Jones painting?
Awarded Sep 4, 2025 at 6:56
"This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone." Why?
Awarded Aug 29, 2025 at 12:27
Alexandria by Islam Issa--Did Aristotle know Latin or Hebrew?
Awarded Aug 5, 2025 at 14:24
Can you identify this shell case from Flanders?
Awarded Jul 23, 2025 at 9:21
If Lincoln was willing to tolerate slavery, why did the American Civil War not end immediately?
Awarded Jul 13, 2025 at 23:46
Why Napoleon is not exhumed or his cofin X-rayed to definitely determine his height?
Awarded Jul 3, 2025 at 21:36
What evidence is there that "the overwhelming majority of Christians" renounced their faith or fled when persecuted under Pliny and Decius?
Awarded Jun 30, 2025 at 14:41
What gods-related interjections were used by people in polytheistic cultures?
Awarded Jun 28, 2025 at 21:53
Are there historical references to chiggers in America?
Awarded Jun 28, 2025 at 15:00
How did Patrick Stewart Bank get its name?
Awarded Jun 23, 2025 at 15:16
Where can I find information about the commune between Sochi and Khosta that was closed in 1929?
Awarded Jun 21, 2025 at 10:12
What was Russia's population history?
Awarded Jun 18, 2025 at 22:49
How "Roman" were the various Medieval Roman successor states?
Awarded May 31, 2025 at 22:25
How long did Americans continue to drink tea before switching over to coffee?
Awarded May 27, 2025 at 23:34
What does CIB GO 9 101 INF MAY 45 mean on discharge papers?
Awarded May 27, 2025 at 16:10
How come an FBI agent like Robert Hanssen had access to spy lists?
Awarded May 7, 2025 at 0:47
What's the best way to transcribe 19th century, English, Urdu, Arabic, etc.?
Awarded May 6, 2025 at 15:11
Did officers of the army of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia carry revolvers? Did Četniks' officers carry them by the end of the WWII?
Awarded Apr 24, 2025 at 10:02
Was there an ancient Greek proverb "Money is people", what did it mean, and where did it come from?
Awarded Apr 22, 2025 at 2:09
How many people watched the moon landings after Apollo 11?
Awarded Apr 16, 2025 at 17:26
Why does this card contain the phrase "Bat Card"?
Awarded Apr 10, 2025 at 17:51
Did Jules Verne not know how high the Rockies are?
Awarded Apr 7, 2025 at 9:09
If a Lieutenant in the U.S Marine Corps is at war and dies, and headquarters can't send a replacement, who replaces him?
Awarded Mar 22, 2025 at 1:31
Why are there so many different and seemingly random estimates of South Vietnamese civilian deaths from Allied fire during the Tet Offensive?
Awarded Mar 16, 2025 at 10:20
Is there an example of colonization impacting Bharat's (India's) indigenous conception of time and space?
Awarded Mar 12, 2025 at 6:58
When was the idea of a (post-Roman) unified Italian peninsula first conceived?
Awarded Mar 7, 2025 at 19:56
How were complex structures built before Newtonian physics?
Awarded Feb 26, 2025 at 5:21
How was a book by Mark Twain, "Outlines of History" or "Glances at History", *completely* suppressed?
Awarded Feb 20, 2025 at 21:48
What was the process for booking transatlantic passage in the 1770s?
Awarded Feb 20, 2025 at 14:50
Why was the Scout movement so successful?
Awarded Feb 18, 2025 at 9:34
Where in India (exactly) did the train 653 accident happen?
Awarded Feb 17, 2025 at 5:33
Is it true that the A10 gun was made less accurate on purpose?
Awarded Feb 12, 2025 at 14:04
How many acres per person were needed for the early American settlers vs. the native Americans?
Awarded Feb 5, 2025 at 20:26
Was Nixon's "Madman Theory" effective?
Awarded Feb 4, 2025 at 23:23
What was the prehistoric human impact of the Vela supernova?
Awarded Jan 31, 2025 at 17:01
What is the crest on this 'book' cover?
Awarded Jan 31, 2025 at 6:55
Did Israel exist in 1927? [closed]
Awarded Jan 20, 2025 at 1:55
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