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Just how "good" to the modern palate was food at c. 1900 restaurants like New York City's Delmonico's?

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I am an American archaeological professor in an Indian Princely State on business in 1935. What's for dinner?

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How consequential was the Telemark raid on hindering the German nuclear research program in 1943?

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Jim Henson of Muppets fame graduated in 1960 from the University of Maryland with a BS in Home Economics. What would a Bachelors of Science in Home Economics entail in its course of study? Would a man studying for such a degree in the 1950s be particularly transgressive?

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How did the US Navy come up with its World War II era ship-naming conventions, and when and why did it abandon them?

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I've heard that the Crusades are sometimes considered a "trial run" for European colonization. Is this a fair assessment, or even one seriously considered by historians today?

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Croatia at the World Cup

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It's 1066 and I'm somewhere in northwestern Europe. What would I think when I look up and see Haley's Comet? What would I know of what educated thinkers have to say about it?

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What's the history of Armenians on the Indian subcontinent?

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Does John Keegan's The Iraq War hold up at all?

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Just how "good" to the modern palate was food at c. 1900 restaurants like New York City's Delmonico's?	2136	AskHistorians
I am an American archaeological professor in an Indian Princely State on business in 1935. What's for dinner?	1972	AskHistorians
How consequential was the Telemark raid on hindering the German nuclear research program in 1943?	256	AskHistorians
Jim Henson of Muppets fame graduated in 1960 from the University of Maryland with a BS in Home Economics. What would a Bachelors of Science in Home Economics entail in its course of study? Would a man studying for such a degree in the 1950s be particularly transgressive?	210	AskHistorians
How did the US Navy come up with its World War II era ship-naming conventions, and when and why did it abandon them?	154	AskHistorians
I've heard that the Crusades are sometimes considered a "trial run" for European colonization. Is this a fair assessment, or even one seriously considered by historians today?	111	AskHistorians
Croatia at the World Cup	111	AskHistorians
It's 1066 and I'm somewhere in northwestern Europe. What would I think when I look up and see Haley's Comet? What would I know of what educated thinkers have to say about it?	101	AskHistorians
What's the history of Armenians on the Indian subcontinent?	99	AskHistorians
Does John Keegan's The Iraq War hold up at all?	91	AskHistorians