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Bill and Rachel James claim in their book 'The Man from The Train' that they uncovered a serial killer who operated from 1898 to 1912 and killed close to a hundred people, by using the US railways system to evade capture. How likely is it that this occured? What do criminal historians think of it?

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How did naval warfare look like in the High and Late Medieval Period in Europe? What kinds of ships would we typically see in a naval battle?

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How were Pompeii and Herculaneum simply forgotten by the local population? They weren't exactly minor cities, neither was the surrounding area depopulated or hard to access, so what the Hell?

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How likely is the story of the 'Lost Cosmonauts'?

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Two of my great grandfathers fought in the Austro Hungarian army in WW1. Would i somehow be able to find out where they served?

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How did people actually fight in pike and shot formations? Did they just jab and push into one another hoping the other unit loses cohesion or was it more dynamic?

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What were the reasons behind The Chinese Warring States Period? What caused them to start and why did they go on for almost three hundred years?

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Questions about the Celts and blue war paint.

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How accurate is Ken Burns' TV documentary series "Civil War"? Is it worth watching for someone seeking to learn more about The American Civil War?

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Did witch hunts in mainland Europe (especially in the Balkans, Spain and Italy and Eastern Europe) disproportionately impact Romani people?

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Bill and Rachel James claim in their book 'The Man from The Train' that they uncovered a serial killer who operated from 1898 to 1912 and killed close to a hundred people, by using the US railways system to evade capture. How likely is it that this occured? What do criminal historians think of it?	65	AskHistorians
How did naval warfare look like in the High and Late Medieval Period in Europe? What kinds of ships would we typically see in a naval battle?	52	AskHistorians
How were Pompeii and Herculaneum simply forgotten by the local population? They weren't exactly minor cities, neither was the surrounding area depopulated or hard to access, so what the Hell?	42	AskHistorians
How likely is the story of the 'Lost Cosmonauts'?	40	AskHistorians
Two of my great grandfathers fought in the Austro Hungarian army in WW1. Would i somehow be able to find out where they served?	37	AskHistorians
How did people actually fight in pike and shot formations? Did they just jab and push into one another hoping the other unit loses cohesion or was it more dynamic?	31	AskHistorians
What were the reasons behind The Chinese Warring States Period? What caused them to start and why did they go on for almost three hundred years?	29	AskHistorians
Questions about the Celts and blue war paint.	25	AskHistorians
How accurate is Ken Burns' TV documentary series "Civil War"? Is it worth watching for someone seeking to learn more about The American Civil War?	25	AskHistorians
Did witch hunts in mainland Europe (especially in the Balkans, Spain and Italy and Eastern Europe) disproportionately impact Romani people?	23	AskHistorians