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We often hear about the great battles the Allies won during WW2, and how victory in Europe was in some part because of Hitler's poor decision making. But what were some of the largest tactical fuck ups the Allies made during WW2?	2658
Did Britons at the time of Roman occupation know where the Romans were coming from? How aware were they about the extent of Europe as a continent, and life outside of the British Isles?	2130
Alexander The Great died young, but do we know anything of what his ambitions were? What was he planning to do in the rest of his life provided everything went smoothly?	1481
Are there any misconceptions the public have about the Holocaust, that might be hard to explain without coming across as a Holocaust denier/revisionist?	963
Mormons make a lot of religious claims that one would think are historically researchable. What historical evidence backs up or refutes the claims Mormonism makes?	475
Where there any island nations or isolated people groups who thought they had essentially conquered the entire world, until the arrival of Europeans?	401
In Game of Thrones, the Westerosi are only vaguely aware of places at the edge of their known world (like Asshai). How large was the known world of the Roman Empire? Were there distant places shrouded in mystery, beyond which nothing was known?	359
Did Archimedes really figure out buoyancy? Before him, did people just look at boats and go "Well, we have no idea how this works, or even how to go about figuring out how this works." ?	300
Was there anybody in the Nazi party who didn't want to invade Poland, for fear of being dragged into a war with Britain (whom Hitler saw as natural allies of a racially pure Germany) ?	296
When did the shift from seeing Satan as someone who is tortured in hell to someone who oversees the torture of sinners in hell take place, and why?	275

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