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AMA: The Library of Congress Veterans History Project – 15 years, and 99,000 Collections of Veterans’ Voices from WWI to the Present

165 upvotes • VHPSpecialist_Andrew

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Did an army ever take over a city by just entering as allies, one at a time without suspicion, spreading out, and then marching into every house to slaughter everyone?

165 upvotes • Yauld

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What amusements are available to a Queen in reduced circumstances?

165 upvotes • Marie___Antoinette

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Why would God have asked Joan of Arc to fight for France and defeat the English?

165 upvotes • jprime1

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Why did my US ancestor go to Turkey in 1700s?

165 upvotes • TulasShorn

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So how 'bad' was Tito really?

165 upvotes • AmyLaze

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Is the idea that the WWII Polish military was backwards and primitive real, or was it just that the Wehrmacht was much more advanced?

165 upvotes • shotpun

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Yesterday the claim that medieval households dined with servants made it to the frontpage. Is there truth to this?

165 upvotes • AdamMonkey

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Suppose you were at the Dining table of a Member Byzantine Imperial family in 1414. Would you expect the food to be Roman, Turkish or something else entirely?

165 upvotes • grapp

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How was the labor movement neutered in the US?

165 upvotes • laffy_man

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
AMA: The Library of Congress Veterans History Project – 15 years, and 99,000 Collections of Veterans’ Voices from WWI to the Present	165	VHPSpecialist_Andrew
Did an army ever take over a city by just entering as allies, one at a time without suspicion, spreading out, and then marching into every house to slaughter everyone?	165	Yauld
What amusements are available to a Queen in reduced circumstances?	165	Marie___Antoinette
Why would God have asked Joan of Arc to fight for France and defeat the English?	165	jprime1
Why did my US ancestor go to Turkey in 1700s?	165	TulasShorn
So how 'bad' was Tito really?	165	AmyLaze
Is the idea that the WWII Polish military was backwards and primitive real, or was it just that the Wehrmacht was much more advanced?	165	shotpun
Yesterday the claim that medieval households dined with servants made it to the frontpage. Is there truth to this?	165	AdamMonkey
Suppose you were at the Dining table of a Member Byzantine Imperial family in 1414. Would you expect the food to be Roman, Turkish or something else entirely?	165	grapp
How was the labor movement neutered in the US?	165	laffy_man