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It is often said that Landsknecht soldiers were exempted from the "harsh sumptuary laws" of the Holy Roman Empire on account of their "brutish and short" lives. What were the sumptuary laws across the HRE in the late 15th and 16th centuries?
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Cavalry in the First World War are often presented in pop-history as a doomed branch of arms, but how did they see themselves?
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I have often heard it said that the complexity of the wheellock mechanism on some early muskets was so high that clock and watch-makers were some of the first people to make them. Is there any truth to this claim? How were early lock mechanisms manufactured?
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Winfield Scott wrote a personal memoir in 1864 in the third-person. This seems unusual, but was there a trend in popular narrative accounts that served to obfuscate the participation of the writer? Or was there another more banal reason to do so?
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I'm a follower of John Brown in the months before the Harper's Ferry raid. What version of the Bible would Brown and the rest of his men be most familiar with?
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In Joel Harrington's "The Faithful Executioner," roving bands of highwaymen called "murder-burners" are depicted, extorting peasants under threat of torching their homes. How widespread was the problem of highwaymen, and how were they dealt with?
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Fifty years ago today, the Apollo 11 mission landed two men on the moon, achieving a primary goal of the US Space program. What were the ultimate, long-term goals of the Soviet space program?
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Does Ikurei Xerius III deserve the reputation he has as a corrupt and incompetent ruler who led the Vulgar Holy War to slaughter?
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