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A "dragon" skull was displayed in the Island of Rhodes until the 1800s. Where is it?

739 upvotes • GarretKadeDupre

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What was it like logistically with ancient armies the size of cities on the move? What would this even look like? And how were they fed?

739 upvotes • SylviaNorth

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Before the invention of electric lights, how far away could you see a city, village, inn, or farmhouse at night? How would this change over the millennia?

739 upvotes • Seicair

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Gary Webb famously died of two gun shot wounds to the head and his death that was ruled a suicide, is the common sense notion that this was clearly assassination true?

738 upvotes • Soft-Rains

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If Tsar Nicholas II was so desperate for an heir but kept having daughters, what was stopping him from just changing the rule to allow his oldest daughter to inherit?

738 upvotes • GrilledSoap

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Spanish colonists reaction to alligators in Florida?

738 upvotes • RealUEL

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Why does a Lieutenant General outrank a Major General, but a Major outranks a Lieutenant?

738 upvotes • ThatAssholeMrWhite

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Are busts of the Roman emperors contemporary to that emperor's time or are they reimaginings of what someone at a later date would have thought them to look like?

738 upvotes • Disappearingbox

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In Band of Brothers, Dutch women who slept with German soldiers are publicly humilated when the Americans liberate the town, how common was this after Axis powers had been removed from a country and was it done differently in different countries?

738 upvotes • Documental38

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Was the Nuremburg trials a kangaroo court?

738 upvotes • Brian_Braddock

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
A "dragon" skull was displayed in the Island of Rhodes until the 1800s. Where is it?	739	GarretKadeDupre
What was it like logistically with ancient armies the size of cities on the move? What would this even look like? And how were they fed?	739	SylviaNorth
Before the invention of electric lights, how far away could you see a city, village, inn, or farmhouse at night? How would this change over the millennia?	739	Seicair
Gary Webb famously died of two gun shot wounds to the head and his death that was ruled a suicide, is the common sense notion that this was clearly assassination true?	738	Soft-Rains
If Tsar Nicholas II was so desperate for an heir but kept having daughters, what was stopping him from just changing the rule to allow his oldest daughter to inherit?	738	GrilledSoap
Spanish colonists reaction to alligators in Florida?	738	RealUEL
Why does a Lieutenant General outrank a Major General, but a Major outranks a Lieutenant?	738	ThatAssholeMrWhite
Are busts of the Roman emperors contemporary to that emperor's time or are they reimaginings of what someone at a later date would have thought them to look like?	738	Disappearingbox
In Band of Brothers, Dutch women who slept with German soldiers are publicly humilated when the Americans liberate the town, how common was this after Axis powers had been removed from a country and was it done differently in different countries?	738	Documental38
Was the Nuremburg trials a kangaroo court?	738	Brian_Braddock