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According to Roman historian Suetonius, Caligula supposedly ordered that the most famous statues of the gods in the Roman Empire have their heads cut off and replaced with his likeness. Is there any reason to think this was actually ordered and not just slander?	12
During WW2 at least 700,000 Koreans were forcibly sent to Japan to work as laborers. That is a lot of people to relocate. Who was responsible for repatriating them, how did that work and were any who wanted to stay allowed to do so?	12
What sort of dental care was available to American soldiers during World War 2? If they had a serious and painful tooth were there dentists to help? Were there dentists at or near the front? Did they just have to tough it out?	10
During WW2 I would assume at least some diplomats from countries were in Germany when Germany invaded their nations, what did the Germans do with the diplomats? Did other countries simply expel diplomats when the war broke out, were any imprisoned?	9
It has been asked "How far back in time could I go and understand the English spoken?" What languages still spoken today would let you understand others who spoke it, the furthest back in the past?	8
I vaguley recall some source claiming that nobles who joined the crusaders were supposed to be exempt from claims or wars against their holdings while away, but I can't find a source for this. Was such a thing ever a concept?	7
What mechanism was used to determine which prisoners should be released in occupied Gemany after WW2 ended and who decided it?	6
A history Youtuber discussed the populace of besieged cities sometimes rising up in the late medieval and early modern period and forcing their own garrisons to surrender. Did this actually happen with any frequency, are there any especially famous examples?	4
After WW1, the Weimar Republic printed massive amounts of currency to pay war debts, leading to huge inflation. Were economic elites warned to get their wealth into other forms before this happened? If so, who was warned? What did they invest in?	3
Can anyone point me to a source on what territory the British occupied and controlled at the time of the defeat at Yorktown and what they occupied when the war actually ended?	2

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