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Why was the Gallic cavalry of Publius Licinius Crassus so loyal to the young commander?

161 upvotes • ReddevilsWorkAccount

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In WWII were there any British plans for continuing the war had Germany successfully invaded the USSR?

161 upvotes • Scary_Cloud

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Why does the general public have such an interest in Hitler and the Nazis but not other perpetrators of mass genocide? Most people you run into on the street wouldn't have even heard of the Young Turks or Leopold II.

161 upvotes • alrightfrankie

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Today, Somalia is often invoked, sometimes jokingly, as an example of anarchism. What exactly happened there in 1991? How did it become a "stateless" society?

161 upvotes • Shashank1000

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It is said that Senator Joseph Welch’s famous rebuke to Senator Joseph McCarthy—“At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”—was a turning point in the history of McCarthyism. Was it really? It was still in 1954. Did the public’s view of anti communism or the government’s tactics change? How?

161 upvotes • balonkey

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Around the turn of the 16th century, thousands of Sephardi Jews were forced to leave their homes in Spain. The Ottoman Empire allowed the Jews to settle in Istanbul, Damascus and Thessaloniki. Why did the Ottomans give them shelter? What was the public opinion like both in and out of the Empire?

161 upvotes • George_S_Patton_III

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Why didn’t Hitler invade Switzerland during World War 2? The Germans occupied the entire area around Switzerland, so why did they avoid invading it?

161 upvotes • HussamAttar

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The Germans had the "doctrine" of Blitzkrieg or Maneuever Warfare, the Soviets had the doctrine of Deep Battle. What about the other nations in WW2? Did they have certain general concepts or doctrines on how to fight a war? The French, British, Americans, Japanese, etc...

161 upvotes • Pashahlis

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In Netflix’s “The Last Czar”, Nicholas and Alexandra have Alexei, but soon after they realize that he has hemophilia and could die at any second. Seeing as one of the biggest duties of the Czar was to make an heir, why did the Czar and the Czarina not try for another boy after the birth of Alexei?

161 upvotes • KIMJONGFUNN

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A Brief Announcement Regarding Spam Accounts and Karma Farming

161 upvotes • Georgy_K_Zhukov

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Why was the Gallic cavalry of Publius Licinius Crassus so loyal to the young commander?	161	ReddevilsWorkAccount
In WWII were there any British plans for continuing the war had Germany successfully invaded the USSR?	161	Scary_Cloud
Why does the general public have such an interest in Hitler and the Nazis but not other perpetrators of mass genocide? Most people you run into on the street wouldn't have even heard of the Young Turks or Leopold II.	161	alrightfrankie
Today, Somalia is often invoked, sometimes jokingly, as an example of anarchism. What exactly happened there in 1991? How did it become a "stateless" society?	161	Shashank1000
It is said that Senator Joseph Welch’s famous rebuke to Senator Joseph McCarthy—“At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”—was a turning point in the history of McCarthyism. Was it really? It was still in 1954. Did the public’s view of anti communism or the government’s tactics change? How?	161	balonkey
Around the turn of the 16th century, thousands of Sephardi Jews were forced to leave their homes in Spain. The Ottoman Empire allowed the Jews to settle in Istanbul, Damascus and Thessaloniki. Why did the Ottomans give them shelter? What was the public opinion like both in and out of the Empire?	161	George_S_Patton_III
Why didn’t Hitler invade Switzerland during World War 2? The Germans occupied the entire area around Switzerland, so why did they avoid invading it?	161	HussamAttar
The Germans had the "doctrine" of Blitzkrieg or Maneuever Warfare, the Soviets had the doctrine of Deep Battle. What about the other nations in WW2? Did they have certain general concepts or doctrines on how to fight a war? The French, British, Americans, Japanese, etc...	161	Pashahlis
In Netflix’s “The Last Czar”, Nicholas and Alexandra have Alexei, but soon after they realize that he has hemophilia and could die at any second. Seeing as one of the biggest duties of the Czar was to make an heir, why did the Czar and the Czarina not try for another boy after the birth of Alexei?	161	KIMJONGFUNN
A Brief Announcement Regarding Spam Accounts and Karma Farming	161	Georgy_K_Zhukov