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In his autobiography Job Roberts tells a story about how he saw Manuel Noriega "petting" nine year-old girls at a party at his mansion, and later refers to him as a pedophile, is there any other proof of this?

261 upvotes • [deleted]

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Was Suleiman the Magnificent's hat really as big as is commonly depicted? If so, how did he keep it on?

261 upvotes • ProkhorZakharov

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I'm a minor French noble in the year 1096 and the Pope's call to retake the Holy Land is spreading across Europe. How do I hear about this call-to-arms, how do I take up the cross, and what happens to me after I do?

261 upvotes • WildShenanigans

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What happened to the WW1 trenches when the war ended?

261 upvotes • Widukindl

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In "The Guns of August", Barbara Tuchman paints Sir John French, commander of the BEF, as almost cowardly in his persistent and, in her apparent view, unnecessary southward retreat through France in late August 1914. Is this a consensus view of modern historians?

261 upvotes • CornerSolution

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When did the black population in the Western US get so large? My racist uncle said it was because LA was a large city, and that's where all the public benefits were. That didn't sound right, so I'm asking here. More specifically, why is it smaller in Arizona?

261 upvotes • non-troll_account

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What were the motives for the assassination of Julius Caesar?

261 upvotes • ScaryTheory

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When the cracking of the Enigma was announced in '73 and publicized in '74, what was the reaction of the surviving members of the German military?

261 upvotes • MathGrunt

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Switzerland is famous for being made up of three language groups (German, French and Italian). When, how and why did these groups decide to confederate into a single nation? How was a sense of Swiss identity formed? Did inter-ethnic tensions ever lead to mass violence?

261 upvotes • nuttyalmond

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How likely is that Ötzi the Iceman knew about the more advanced civilizations of his time?

261 upvotes • axtolip

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In his autobiography Job Roberts tells a story about how he saw Manuel Noriega "petting" nine year-old girls at a party at his mansion, and later refers to him as a pedophile, is there any other proof of this?	261	[deleted]
Was Suleiman the Magnificent's hat really as big as is commonly depicted? If so, how did he keep it on?	261	ProkhorZakharov
I'm a minor French noble in the year 1096 and the Pope's call to retake the Holy Land is spreading across Europe. How do I hear about this call-to-arms, how do I take up the cross, and what happens to me after I do?	261	WildShenanigans
What happened to the WW1 trenches when the war ended?	261	Widukindl
In "The Guns of August", Barbara Tuchman paints Sir John French, commander of the BEF, as almost cowardly in his persistent and, in her apparent view, unnecessary southward retreat through France in late August 1914. Is this a consensus view of modern historians?	261	CornerSolution
When did the black population in the Western US get so large? My racist uncle said it was because LA was a large city, and that's where all the public benefits were. That didn't sound right, so I'm asking here. More specifically, why is it smaller in Arizona?	261	non-troll_account
What were the motives for the assassination of Julius Caesar?	261	ScaryTheory
When the cracking of the Enigma was announced in '73 and publicized in '74, what was the reaction of the surviving members of the German military?	261	MathGrunt
Switzerland is famous for being made up of three language groups (German, French and Italian). When, how and why did these groups decide to confederate into a single nation? How was a sense of Swiss identity formed? Did inter-ethnic tensions ever lead to mass violence?	261	nuttyalmond
How likely is that Ötzi the Iceman knew about the more advanced civilizations of his time?	261	axtolip