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Awarded 19 times.
"This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone." Why?
Awarded Sep 5, 2025 at 5:07
Has a sovereign Communist government ever run, and conceded loss, on a fair election?
Awarded Jul 27, 2022 at 7:01
Why did the Confederacy think they could win the American Civil War?
Awarded Jul 28, 2020 at 13:28
Why was Poland spared from the Black Death?
Awarded Jun 12, 2020 at 18:48
Did Adolf Hitler ever address the fact that his own appearance was almost an exact opposite of what he considered the ideal Aryan appearance?
Awarded May 6, 2020 at 6:05
Why bother attacking castles at all? Why not go around?
Awarded Mar 13, 2020 at 15:40
Why China was able to unify and not Europe?
Awarded Mar 7, 2020 at 9:50
Why are Germans referred to so differently in different languages?
Awarded Oct 30, 2019 at 13:50
Why did archery not make a comeback when armor was phased out in the 18th century?
Awarded Aug 25, 2019 at 14:45
Why did Native Americans die from European diseases while Europeans didn't catch serious diseases from the New World?
Awarded Jul 28, 2019 at 9:20
On 1941 Dec 7, could Japan have targeted the Panama Canal instead of Pearl Harbor in a surprise attack?
Awarded Jul 11, 2018 at 1:44
Were there women who were against giving women the right to vote?
Awarded Jun 25, 2018 at 9:46
Did China ever consider a phonetic writing system?
Awarded Jun 19, 2018 at 9:08
When did the allies find out about the killing of Jews during WW2
Awarded Mar 8, 2018 at 12:59
How do historians and linguists know how to pronounce the names from non-phonetic scripts?
Awarded Dec 13, 2017 at 4:18
Did the ancients or other pre-industrial civilisations engage in unsustainable practices?
Awarded Nov 18, 2017 at 21:46
When did people decide that all caps means the writer is shouting?
Awarded Oct 27, 2017 at 21:13
Why was France granted an equal status among victors of World War II?
Awarded Feb 5, 2017 at 22:32
Why did Hitler attack the Soviet Union when he was still busy fighting the United Kingdom?
Awarded Jul 21, 2015 at 22:44