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My great granduncle was one of the "Rats Of Tobruk". Is there any way I can find out what he did while he was serving?

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I did a quick google search and couldn't find an answer, but is it known who the last Australian convict was?

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Was being Aryan in Nazi Germany more to do with the genotype or the phenotype? Would it matter if I was a blonde, blue eyed non-German race? Or if I was a brown haired, brown eyed, well tanned purebred German?

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It seems like in ancient societies sex between adults and children wasn't as taboo or prohibited as it is today. What were the first societies that started putting laws on how old someone had to be to consent to sex, and what prompted this change?

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Fake Christian relics seem to be quite prolific in Medieval Europe. What happened to them? Have any examples survived to the modern day?

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In what ways did British treatment of native peoples vary across the span of their Empire?

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Was there any controversy around the naming of New Mexico? Did "old" Mexico voice any complaints?

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Besides the well known examples, what else has been translated from the Dead Sea Scrolls in way of non-canonical texts and fragments?

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Was there ever a time in the West when the names of Monarchs were written with Hindu-Arabic numerals instead of Roman numerals, or has it always been this way? (e.g. Henry 8 vs Henry VIII)

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Are all people who have names related to British nobility (i.e. Lancaster, Windsor, Murray) actually distantly related to those families, or did some peasants occasionally adopt more prestigious surnames in later centuries?

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My great granduncle was one of the "Rats Of Tobruk". Is there any way I can find out what he did while he was serving?	12	AskHistorians
I did a quick google search and couldn't find an answer, but is it known who the last Australian convict was?	11	AskHistorians
Was being Aryan in Nazi Germany more to do with the genotype or the phenotype? Would it matter if I was a blonde, blue eyed non-German race? Or if I was a brown haired, brown eyed, well tanned purebred German?	11	AskHistorians
It seems like in ancient societies sex between adults and children wasn't as taboo or prohibited as it is today. What were the first societies that started putting laws on how old someone had to be to consent to sex, and what prompted this change?	8	AskHistorians
Fake Christian relics seem to be quite prolific in Medieval Europe. What happened to them? Have any examples survived to the modern day?	8	AskHistorians
In what ways did British treatment of native peoples vary across the span of their Empire?	7	AskHistorians
Was there any controversy around the naming of New Mexico? Did "old" Mexico voice any complaints?	7	AskHistorians
Besides the well known examples, what else has been translated from the Dead Sea Scrolls in way of non-canonical texts and fragments?	7	AskHistorians
Was there ever a time in the West when the names of Monarchs were written with Hindu-Arabic numerals instead of Roman numerals, or has it always been this way? (e.g. Henry 8 vs Henry VIII)	6	AskHistorians
Are all people who have names related to British nobility (i.e. Lancaster, Windsor, Murray) actually distantly related to those families, or did some peasants occasionally adopt more prestigious surnames in later centuries?	6	AskHistorians