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In "Band of Brothers," one of the American soldiers is chatting briefly with a fellow American who enlisted in the German Army because he and his Volksdeutsche family had "returned to the fatherland." Did this ever actually happen?	401
Would a wounded Japanese soldier during World War II be welcomed home as a hero or shamed because he did not die on the battlefield?	101
I'm a Roman in 50 B.C. and I just bought a slave from Gaul. How do I communicate with him?	65
I'm a small-time Roman farmer in 200 BC. What does my house look like? How many iugera of land do I have? What sort of out-buildings do I have on my land?	39
Historians claim that when a Greek general smashed open the original pedestal of the Lion of Charonea, all they found inside were spears and shields, some of which still had names on them. Did anyone ever record the names on the shields or send the spears and shields to a museum?	33
Have archaeologists attempted to find the memorial to the 300 Spartans mentioned by Pausanias and Herodotus?	31
In 1941, the British sent a captured Messerschmitt Bf 110 to the U.S. so American engineers could have a look at her. The Vultee Aircraft Company created an exhaustive report on the aircraft. Does anyone know what happened to the aircraft after Vultee was done with it?	26
I am a free lower middle class Greek citizen around the time of the Persian Wars and my city just called me up to fight. Where does my equipment come from?	14
Did scholars contemporary with the fire at the Great Library of Alexandria lament the event as much as we do?	9
Did the Bf 110 get an unfair historical reputation due to the way it was utilized in the Battle of Britain?	8

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