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Why were rear gunners on fighters rare during WWII? Wouldn't they be more beneficial than single seat fighters?

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A Microbologist assets AIDs came from WWI soldiers in Africa catching the disease from eating tainted bush meat. From a historian perspective, how likely is this theory?

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How did Astrology and birth signs that discern destiny and personality become a major thing even in cultures with no contact with Europe, like in pre-contact America?

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Plutarco Elias Calles was the author of one of the most anti-catholic laws in human history that led to a literal war with the Catholic church. He was said to hate church so much a reporter that asked him why had to leave in tears after hours of being screamed at. Why did he hate the church so much?

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Did the Mesoamerican myth of Naguals, or "werejaguars", come from people with cleft lips?

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Is there a good source on the Aztec sun calendar and the religious significance of each day?

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I heard Mao Zedong's great leap forward was an attempt to "one up" USSR's Khrushchev, and refused to cancel the policy when it was failing because it would humiliate him in front of other communist countries. How true is this?

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Computers have fundamental architectural flaws like integer overflows and buffer overflows. Do our brains have fundamental architectural flaws too?

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Medieval era Fantasy often includes things like thieves guilds, bandit clans, or other crime organizations across a large region. How large and complex were criminal groups in real life? Who were the largest and most complex?

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Yuri Knorozov was haile for deciphering the Mayan Hieroglyphs, how do we know he was correct?

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Why were rear gunners on fighters rare during WWII? Wouldn't they be more beneficial than single seat fighters?	4	AskHistorians
A Microbologist assets AIDs came from WWI soldiers in Africa catching the disease from eating tainted bush meat. From a historian perspective, how likely is this theory?	3	AskHistorians
How did Astrology and birth signs that discern destiny and personality become a major thing even in cultures with no contact with Europe, like in pre-contact America?	3	AskHistorians
Plutarco Elias Calles was the author of one of the most anti-catholic laws in human history that led to a literal war with the Catholic church. He was said to hate church so much a reporter that asked him why had to leave in tears after hours of being screamed at. Why did he hate the church so much?	3	AskHistorians
Did the Mesoamerican myth of Naguals, or "werejaguars", come from people with cleft lips?	3	AskHistorians
Is there a good source on the Aztec sun calendar and the religious significance of each day?	2	AskHistorians
I heard Mao Zedong's great leap forward was an attempt to "one up" USSR's Khrushchev, and refused to cancel the policy when it was failing because it would humiliate him in front of other communist countries. How true is this?	2	AskHistorians
Computers have fundamental architectural flaws like integer overflows and buffer overflows. Do our brains have fundamental architectural flaws too?	1	askscience
Medieval era Fantasy often includes things like thieves guilds, bandit clans, or other crime organizations across a large region. How large and complex were criminal groups in real life? Who were the largest and most complex?	1	AskHistorians
Yuri Knorozov was haile for deciphering the Mayan Hieroglyphs, how do we know he was correct?	1	AskHistorians