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Where there any island nations or isolated people groups who thought they had essentially conquered the entire world, until the arrival of Europeans?

401 upvotes • ColbyStein

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In Band of Brothers, an officer encourages troopers to sign a $10,000 government life insurance plan prior to deploying on D-Day. How much did this program cost the United States by war's end?

401 upvotes • Knotfloyd

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In "Band of Brothers," one of the American soldiers is chatting briefly with a fellow American who enlisted in the German Army because he and his Volksdeutsche family had "returned to the fatherland." Did this ever actually happen?

401 upvotes • Gewehr98

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Lots of Media from Game of Thrones to Crusader Kings show the Monarch having a bona fide Spymaster in their court. How often was this the case in real life?

401 upvotes • zachar3

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In the 2nd letter of the Federalist Papers, John Jay writes, "Or why is it suggested that three or four confederacies would be better than one?" Who was arguing for multiple confederacies and how would the states have been divided up?

401 upvotes • chasexc14

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How do we know what we know about Custer's last stand? Are our sources exclusively native? Custer has a reputation as a reckless general and a political opportunist- how much of this was contemporary, vs after the fact? Should he have seen it coming? What were the battle's lasting repercussions?

401 upvotes • td4999

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As a black person, how would medieval Britain react to me roaming the streets?

401 upvotes • ilickbeavers

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When did exile stop being a thing?

401 upvotes • BronzeOfHair

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With numerous food delivery services becoming popular rather recently, why was pizza the stand alone fast food with industry standard delivery services throughout the past few decades?

401 upvotes • Th3DoughB0y

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I'm an average Native American person deep within Louisiana in the mid 18th century, lets say before the 7 years war. Do I even know I'm in 'French' territory?

401 upvotes • Khwarezm

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Where there any island nations or isolated people groups who thought they had essentially conquered the entire world, until the arrival of Europeans?	401	ColbyStein
In Band of Brothers, an officer encourages troopers to sign a $10,000 government life insurance plan prior to deploying on D-Day. How much did this program cost the United States by war's end?	401	Knotfloyd
In "Band of Brothers," one of the American soldiers is chatting briefly with a fellow American who enlisted in the German Army because he and his Volksdeutsche family had "returned to the fatherland." Did this ever actually happen?	401	Gewehr98
Lots of Media from Game of Thrones to Crusader Kings show the Monarch having a bona fide Spymaster in their court. How often was this the case in real life?	401	zachar3
In the 2nd letter of the Federalist Papers, John Jay writes, "Or why is it suggested that three or four confederacies would be better than one?" Who was arguing for multiple confederacies and how would the states have been divided up?	401	chasexc14
How do we know what we know about Custer's last stand? Are our sources exclusively native? Custer has a reputation as a reckless general and a political opportunist- how much of this was contemporary, vs after the fact? Should he have seen it coming? What were the battle's lasting repercussions?	401	td4999
As a black person, how would medieval Britain react to me roaming the streets?	401	ilickbeavers
When did exile stop being a thing?	401	BronzeOfHair
With numerous food delivery services becoming popular rather recently, why was pizza the stand alone fast food with industry standard delivery services throughout the past few decades?	401	Th3DoughB0y
I'm an average Native American person deep within Louisiana in the mid 18th century, lets say before the 7 years war. Do I even know I'm in 'French' territory?	401	Khwarezm