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In a 1973 episode of "Doctor Who" I was just watching, a character says plans were made to build bunkers "back in the Cold War days". Is the show being timey-wimey, or is this evidence of détente? Or both?

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How and when did the American tradition of "Name", his son "Name Jr" and his son "Name III" come about?

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Evaluation of Susan Wise Bauer's "History of the Ancient World"?

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To what extent was the Spanish Civil War a primarily ideological conflict?

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As debates over the EU continue in Britain, I spotted someone claiming that "uncontrolled immigration led to the fall of the Roman Empire" - with the presumed warning that the same fate would befall the EU. Is there any light AskHistorians can shed on this claim?

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Did the "Nintendo Effect" in the Gulf War (1990-1) have a noticeable effect on American popular support for military action in general?

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How accurate are these casualty figures for the German invasion of Denmark in 1940? If they're right, how come?

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With the notable exception of Britain, most of Europe uses metric weights and measures exclusively. How did metric spread, where were the last holdouts of pre-metric measures?

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[META] What's the deal with r/askhistoriansAI?

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I'm a British fighter pilot in south of England in the winter of 1940-41. What am I doing at the moment?

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In a 1973 episode of "Doctor Who" I was just watching, a character says plans were made to build bunkers "back in the Cold War days". Is the show being timey-wimey, or is this evidence of détente? Or both?	6	AskHistorians
How and when did the American tradition of "Name", his son "Name Jr" and his son "Name III" come about?	6	AskHistorians
Evaluation of Susan Wise Bauer's "History of the Ancient World"?	6	AskHistorians
To what extent was the Spanish Civil War a primarily ideological conflict?	6	AskHistorians
As debates over the EU continue in Britain, I spotted someone claiming that "uncontrolled immigration led to the fall of the Roman Empire" - with the presumed warning that the same fate would befall the EU. Is there any light AskHistorians can shed on this claim?	6	AskHistorians
Did the "Nintendo Effect" in the Gulf War (1990-1) have a noticeable effect on American popular support for military action in general?	6	AskHistorians
How accurate are these casualty figures for the German invasion of Denmark in 1940? If they're right, how come?	6	AskHistorians
With the notable exception of Britain, most of Europe uses metric weights and measures exclusively. How did metric spread, where were the last holdouts of pre-metric measures?	5	AskHistorians
[META] What's the deal with r/askhistoriansAI?	5	AskHistorians
I'm a British fighter pilot in south of England in the winter of 1940-41. What am I doing at the moment?	5	AskHistorians