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In the game Europa Universalis 4, players who control the Holy Roman Emperor have the option to re-centralize the empire through a series of reforms. Do these reforms accurately reflect the problems the Holy Roman Empire faced, and would enacting them have curbed its decline?	1941
How did Robert E. Lee manage to more than double the size of his army (30,000 to 75,000) in three months, following Antietam, in time for Fredericksburg?	1922
Carthage had a reputation as a mercantile powerhouse. Did they have any "signature" products, i.e. were there any goods that if you thought of it, you'd think "ah, that's from Carthage"?	999
Was Hadrian's Wall ever used again after the Romans?	471
Rewatching Modern Marvels (an old favorite) and noticing many inventions first became popular at the World's Fairs in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. What were these fairs, and why have I never heard of them outside the show?	251
Did university students in 1916 have a political issue which they were heavily stereotyped as being in favor of, such as debt relief and marijuana legalization today?	202
How did British divisions reform after Dunkirk? Were they disbanded to make new ones, or was an effort made to reunite the scattered personnel from across the country? How did the British "put their army back together"?	201
Some 50,000 amputations were performed in the American Civil War. What was life like for amputees when they returned home? How did post-war society treat them?	193
Today we think of Afghanistan as the "graveyard of empires", but Alexander the Great was able to conquer and march through the same region with little apparent trouble. What happened between then and now that led to it becoming so dangerous?	177
In the Invasion of Greece in 1941, British and German units skirmished in the famous Thermopylae pass. What, if any, propaganda was made from this, on either side?	171

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