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It's somewhere between 150-200AD, I'm a fighting-aged man with a young family in northern Germania. Life here sucks and those Goths up North are looking a bit scary, so I don't really fancy sticking around. Can I emigrate peacefully into Roman territory, even if my king wants to fight them?	167
What did World War 2-era carrier-based pilots do in the time they weren't flying?	140
Did Bronze Age civilisations have colonies?	86
I just read that upwards of 15,000 men went missing from the French army at the battle of Waterloo. How do so many men go missing in that era of warfare? Are they men who ran and this weren’t counted among the casualties, or something else?	65
How did the policies of Margaret Thatcher specifically lead to unemployment figures of over 3,000,000?	51
Why is Odoacer considered “the first king of Italy” and not just another Roman Emperor? What sets Odoacer apart from other general-turned-ruler of the western empire?	42
Where/how did wealthy ancients store their wealth?	32
If by 1944 the Allies had fully cracked the Germans' communication codes and were able to intercept and translate their intelligence, why did the German Ardennes counter-offensive take them so by surprise?	27
The media today are reporting the last time a sitting US president didn't attend their successor's inauguration was in 1869, when Grant refused to allow Andrew Johnson to ride in the same carriage as him. Why did Grant not want Johnson to ride in the same carriage as him?	24
Today, the Western and Eastern Roman Empires are considered to be two separate "entities". Would citizens of these empires have recognised this separation? Would they have considered themselves to be "Eastern" or "Western" or would they consider themselves to be a single empire with two governments?	18

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