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In Band of Brothers, the 101st has to lock the holocaust victims back in the camp to make sure they don't eat themselves to death. Did this actually happen?

449 upvotes • notbobby125

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In the movie Tombstone, no one ever objects to being close to Doc Holliday, even though he's visibly wasting away from tuberculosis, and coughing all the time. Is this accurate for the late 19th Century? Did people still not understand that coughs were infectious?

449 upvotes • Jerswar

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The 1916 Irish Proclamation: 'In every generation the Irish people have asserted their right to national freedom and sovereignty; six times during the past 300 years they have asserted it in arms' Try as I might, I can only come up with five examples. Do we know which ones the writers had in mind?

449 upvotes • Samoyedenthusiast

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How do we prove or disprove "they were good friends" theories of historical people?

449 upvotes • zackroot

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How do historians decide where a state, nation, or nation-state begins to exist and ceases to exist? What is the basis for historical "identity"?

449 upvotes • Hugh_Munguses

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In WW2 why was there such a death rate discrepancy between the RAF Bomber Command ~45% and the USAAF 8th Air Force <10%?

449 upvotes • Airbus787-

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How close were the cities of Assassin's Creed 2 to their historical counterparts?

448 upvotes • skytorn

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Why does French use so many silent letters?

448 upvotes • rahl422000

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Did most people in 1930s America understand the causes of the Great Depression?

448 upvotes • ohnoitsDEVO

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Although the year of the fall of Western Rome is attributed to 476 CE, it was not a sudden occurrence. When would the average person living in France, Spain, or Italy have realized that the [Western] Roman Empire no longer existed?

448 upvotes • ajfonty

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In Band of Brothers, the 101st has to lock the holocaust victims back in the camp to make sure they don't eat themselves to death. Did this actually happen?	449	notbobby125
In the movie Tombstone, no one ever objects to being close to Doc Holliday, even though he's visibly wasting away from tuberculosis, and coughing all the time. Is this accurate for the late 19th Century? Did people still not understand that coughs were infectious?	449	Jerswar
The 1916 Irish Proclamation: 'In every generation the Irish people have asserted their right to national freedom and sovereignty; six times during the past 300 years they have asserted it in arms' Try as I might, I can only come up with five examples. Do we know which ones the writers had in mind?	449	Samoyedenthusiast
How do we prove or disprove "they were good friends" theories of historical people?	449	zackroot
How do historians decide where a state, nation, or nation-state begins to exist and ceases to exist? What is the basis for historical "identity"?	449	Hugh_Munguses
In WW2 why was there such a death rate discrepancy between the RAF Bomber Command ~45% and the USAAF 8th Air Force <10%?	449	Airbus787-
How close were the cities of Assassin's Creed 2 to their historical counterparts?	448	skytorn
Why does French use so many silent letters?	448	rahl422000
Did most people in 1930s America understand the causes of the Great Depression?	448	ohnoitsDEVO
Although the year of the fall of Western Rome is attributed to 476 CE, it was not a sudden occurrence. When would the average person living in France, Spain, or Italy have realized that the [Western] Roman Empire no longer existed?	448	ajfonty