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If the whole point of Sherman's March To The Sea was that he didn't bother to maintain supply lines, why do maps of the American Civil War usually show the Union occupying the land he passed through?	446
Do clay tablets written by people who were probably angry or frustrated have deeper indents?	167
In response to recent controversies: How many "people of color" would once actually find in early 15th century bohemia?	52
Hernan Cortes cut the aqueducts supplying Tenochtitlan. This sounds like a major demolition project, how would his small force of Europeans have gone about it?	33
How did hyperboloid cooling towers become so deeply associated with nuclear power stations in the public consciousness, when other thermal power stations are equally dependent on those structures?	29
In the medieval to early modern periods, did and European nations try building new Roman-style aqueducts? How else did they handle the growing water demands of cities?	19
Do historians see any value in wargaming battles of the distant past to determine how believable the descriptions of force sizes and movements by historical chroniclers are?	13
The USS Indianapolis was sunk by a Japanese submarine just a few days after delivering the components of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. Quite the near miss! Did the US have any contingencies for if the Indianapolis got attacked by a submarine before successfully delivering the components?	12
By the Battle of Borodino the Grande Armee was already reduced to less than 130,000 men out of 400 to 600 thousand. What caused so much attrition early on, and how much was Napoleon forced to change plans accounting for being down to below one-third his starting strength by that time?	9
How did pastoral nomadic people that historically lived in southern Ukraine and Russia deal with large rivers like the Dnipro bisecting their territory?	6

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