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Once the USA started flying warplanes from Greenland, why didn't merchant ships sail further north, hugging Labrador and Greenland for air cover?
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What was the (theoretical) status of World War II "coast watchers" under the Geneva Convention?
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Once the USA started flying warplanes from Greenland, why didn't merchant ships sail further north, hugging Labrador and Greenland for air cover?
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How did Pythagoras study in ancient Egypt?
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When did someone began designating fascists as "right-wing"?
Awarded Apr 20 at 13:42
Did German radios in Nazi era have a tag "By listening to enemies you betray the Führer"?
Awarded Apr 18 at 10:17
What was the cause of 10 British warships disappearing, that Pierre Denys de Montfort attributed to colossal octopuses?
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Was there a historical event that prompted the 2nd Amendment?
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Was there a historical event that prompted the 2nd Amendment?
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Whose signature is on this painting?
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What is the origin of Rap?
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To what extent did the evacuation of Soviet factories to the Urals apply to those in the Moscow region?
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Were there slaves who opposed abolition?
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Who were the Hermotybians and Calascirians mentioned as making up the warrior caste of Egypt by Herodotus
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Have armed forces ever transfused their wounded soldiers with blood forcibly collected from enemy fighters or occupied civilian populations?
Awarded Mar 23 at 6:46
How old was Murasaki Shikibu when she married her second cousin? And why did she marry him?
Awarded Mar 19 at 15:06
Why didn't the USA want the Confederacy to secede?
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Is it plausible that Disney’s Agrabah is an Indian city?
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Why didn't the USA want the Confederacy to secede?
Awarded Mar 13 at 23:15
Why were the ship names "Scharnhorst" and "Gneisenau" used together?
Awarded Mar 12 at 16:34
Why did the Adjutant-General's Office create "A list of Christian names" and similar texts in the 1920s?
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Is it plausible that Disney’s Agrabah is an Indian city?
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Is it plausible that Disney’s Agrabah is an Indian city?
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Was the Night of the Long Knives principally a means to obtain loyalty of the German military leadership?
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What did it mean when a 19th century UK man was a "blocker"
Awarded Feb 22 at 20:32
Was gassing of pet dogs on the Chagos Islands in the 1960s/1970s an intimidation tactic?
Awarded Feb 22 at 19:08
What other ships were with USS Saratoga when it was hit by a torpedo on 1942 Jan 11?
Awarded Feb 15 at 5:46
What rank is the man in this picture? What year?
Awarded Feb 13 at 17:11
Who was the last Westminster monarch before Charles III to pray with a pope?
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What was a Babylonian "fiery furnace" like?
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Was Rurik of noble birth?
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What role, if any, did Japanese anti-aircraft fire play at Midway?
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What role, if any, did Japanese anti-aircraft fire play at Midway?
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What is the meaning of this road sign: upside-down black triangle inside yellow circle?
Awarded Jan 31 at 17:10
How often did B-17 bomber crews experience difficulty with bomb release?
Awarded Jan 29 at 2:45
Who owned Franz Josef islands between 1918-1926?
Awarded Jan 25 at 19:41
What was the context around John Quincy Adams's quote about the "art of making love" with "the thermometer at Zero"?
Awarded Jan 24 at 9:35
How was column size determined in the scrolls of the Classical Romans and Greeks?
Awarded Jan 22 at 12:20
What intelligence successes did the Axis have in WW2?
Awarded Jan 17 at 1:34
Did a Japanese medieval castle withstand US battleship fire during the Pacific War?
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Did Cato the Elder think destruction of Carthage was more important than anything else for Rome?
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How much of an advantage in training and experience did Japanese pilots have over Americans at the beginning of the Pacific war?
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How common was the belief in early British India that crossing the sea led to loss of caste?
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Did Hitler spare Dundee from bombing because it "rejected" Churchill as MP?
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Was Islamic law (Sharia) ever historically reinterpreted or modified to permit bacha bazi–like practices?
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Did the widely-reported espionage story involving kefir really happen?
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Did the widely-reported espionage story involving kefir really happen?
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Why wasn't Hannibal crucified?
Awarded Dec 30, 2025 at 20:19
How did the Czech Legion get home?
Awarded Dec 27, 2025 at 16:17
Were the 1972 killings of Hutu by the Tutsi in Burundi later used as a justification for the 1994 Rwandan genocide?
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Who continued to fight after the Confederacy surrendered?
Awarded Dec 18, 2025 at 16:46
Is it true that Julius Caesar made a pun about “Rex” meaning “king” and how did this pun work?
Awarded Dec 15, 2025 at 19:40
Where did Thomas Aquinas get this quote from?
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Does the term Gododdin ultimately derive from the Norse god Odin?
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Were there plans to unify Germany that were alternatives to Bismarck’s?
Awarded Dec 11, 2025 at 17:53
Where did Thomas Aquinas get this quote from?
Awarded Dec 11, 2025 at 15:42
Why was the Budjak annexed to Ukraine in 1940?
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Has any country ever 'sold' a part of it's territory voluntarily to another?
Awarded Dec 1, 2025 at 20:10
When (if ever) did common people address each other as "comrade" in China and Russia/the Soviet Union?
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On what basis did Churchill sleep "the sleep of the saved" immediately after Pearl Harbor?
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