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Did Abbot Arnaud Amalric really say "Kill them all, the Lord will know his own"?

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Why did the USSR let Boney M record the music video for 'Rasputin' in Moscow?

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Was Pontius Pilate born in Scotland?

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Why are US state capitals often not the largest or most economically "important" city in the state?

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Were the Romans aware of existence of Iceland and Svalbard? If not, did they then think Scotland was basically the end of the world?

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American Indians are often depicted as fighting bare-chested, even in snowy conditions (ie, at St Clair's defeat in November in Ohio). How accurate is this depiction? Did Indian forces suffer from hypothermia/frostbite, or lose combat effectiveness, for being under-clad in these conditions?

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The 1862 civil war song 'Kingdom Coming' tells the fun little tale of a group of slaves who see their master fleeing Union troops, lock their overseer in a cellar and proceed to drink all their ex-master's booze. What was the immediate aftermath of emancipation in the American Civil War really like?

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Have any presidents of the United States been members of the Ku Klux Klan?

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In "Into that Darkness", the commander of Treblinka Franz Stangl claims that former death camp personnel were assigned to the most dangerous duties in the last years of the war in order to get them killed as they were an "embarrassment". Is there any truth to this or was Stangl fishing for sympathy?

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What did the anti-treaty faction of the Irish Civil War plan to do if they won? How did they expect to force Britain to grant a 32-county Irish republic?

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Did Abbot Arnaud Amalric really say "Kill them all, the Lord will know his own"?	174
Why did the USSR let Boney M record the music video for 'Rasputin' in Moscow?	158
Was Pontius Pilate born in Scotland?	152
Why are US state capitals often not the largest or most economically "important" city in the state?	120
Were the Romans aware of existence of Iceland and Svalbard? If not, did they then think Scotland was basically the end of the world?	113
American Indians are often depicted as fighting bare-chested, even in snowy conditions (ie, at St Clair's defeat in November in Ohio). How accurate is this depiction? Did Indian forces suffer from hypothermia/frostbite, or lose combat effectiveness, for being under-clad in these conditions?	111
The 1862 civil war song 'Kingdom Coming' tells the fun little tale of a group of slaves who see their master fleeing Union troops, lock their overseer in a cellar and proceed to drink all their ex-master's booze. What was the immediate aftermath of emancipation in the American Civil War really like?	105
Have any presidents of the United States been members of the Ku Klux Klan?	89
In "Into that Darkness", the commander of Treblinka Franz Stangl claims that former death camp personnel were assigned to the most dangerous duties in the last years of the war in order to get them killed as they were an "embarrassment". Is there any truth to this or was Stangl fishing for sympathy?	88
What did the anti-treaty faction of the Irish Civil War plan to do if they won? How did they expect to force Britain to grant a 32-county Irish republic?	66