AskHistorians

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Are there any instances in modern American or European history where the wrong inmate in a prison was executed? I don't mean that someone wrongly convicted was executed, or a case of mistaken identity, I mean confusing one prisoner in the same prison for another and executing them.	2
There have been many "eternal flames" throughout history, fires maintained for a long time. (1)What eternal flame has a credible claim for having been burning the longest, at any point in history and (2)which flame still burning today, has been burning the longest?	2
I have heard that if an English speaker went back in time they probably couldn't understand English speakers before the 15th century. What major world language today would probably still be understood by a modern speaker the furthest back into the past?	1
What person or group ultimately decided which designs to place on the coins in circulation in the US? Some official in the mint? A vote by congress? A committee or body appointed by congress? Some other way?	1
What are examples of the armed forces of "first world" nations giving drugs to their soldiers to use? What kind of drugs were given and for what types of soldiers?	1
Is the tomb of the Jewish scholar Hillel in tact? Are we confident that the place we attribute it to be is correct?	1
How justified was the American revolution? Were the colonists justified?	1
What does this political cartoon mean? Can anyone translate it or explain the content? I think it is German?	1
During the 18th and 19th centuries, are there any famous instances of diplomats being assassinated or executed in the countries that they were sent to, in the Western world? If not famous ones, are there any known instances?	1
At any point in history or during a famous incident, I am a typical adult male in a city which was besieged, but just breached by a superior force. The city is boned. What is my best strategy for living until tomorrow and/or not being enslaved?	1

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