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Why didn’t people try to resettle the old cities of Assyria such as Nineveh?

242 upvotes • Seleucids

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Why didn’t Soviet naval doctrine focus on aircraft carriers as the west did?

242 upvotes • AwesomeKillerKevin

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A cracked photoplasty post claimed that after the holocaust homosexual prisoners were not released but forced to serve the remaining of their sentence. Is this true? What happened to homosexuals after?

242 upvotes • Spam4119

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Were people considerably uglier in say, the 12th century, assuming humans choose more attractive mates, leaving uglier people to be the end of their family line?

242 upvotes • psychonutty

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The American defeat to the Nazis at Kasserine Pass (Tunisia, 1943) is said to have let to ‘sweeping changes in unit organisation and equipment’. Can you explain what these changes were?

242 upvotes • eeeeeep

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In what ways did Marx and Engels not agree?

242 upvotes • wholemania

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In Middle Ages how did people verify seal authenticity?

242 upvotes • L226

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Game of Thrones has got me wondering about real medieval armies. What percentage of large European armies were conscripts, and what proportion were professional soldiers? And how long could a society maintain “full” mobilization?

242 upvotes • Charlie--Dont--Surf

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The English historian Norman Stone has died. The obituary published in the Guardian is almost unbelievably scathing -- are the claims it makes accurate?

242 upvotes • ColonelBy

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Within a few short decades in the early 20th century, the United States went from being a middling power to being the most powerful nation on Earth. Was this a major shock to the former Great Powers, or had there been a growing sense of "American inevitability"?

242 upvotes • derstherower

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Why didn’t people try to resettle the old cities of Assyria such as Nineveh?	242	Seleucids
Why didn’t Soviet naval doctrine focus on aircraft carriers as the west did?	242	AwesomeKillerKevin
A cracked photoplasty post claimed that after the holocaust homosexual prisoners were not released but forced to serve the remaining of their sentence. Is this true? What happened to homosexuals after?	242	Spam4119
Were people considerably uglier in say, the 12th century, assuming humans choose more attractive mates, leaving uglier people to be the end of their family line?	242	psychonutty
The American defeat to the Nazis at Kasserine Pass (Tunisia, 1943) is said to have let to ‘sweeping changes in unit organisation and equipment’. Can you explain what these changes were?	242	eeeeeep
In what ways did Marx and Engels not agree?	242	wholemania
In Middle Ages how did people verify seal authenticity?	242	L226
Game of Thrones has got me wondering about real medieval armies. What percentage of large European armies were conscripts, and what proportion were professional soldiers? And how long could a society maintain “full” mobilization?	242	Charlie--Dont--Surf
The English historian Norman Stone has died. The obituary published in the Guardian is almost unbelievably scathing -- are the claims it makes accurate?	242	ColonelBy
Within a few short decades in the early 20th century, the United States went from being a middling power to being the most powerful nation on Earth. Was this a major shock to the former Great Powers, or had there been a growing sense of "American inevitability"?	242	derstherower