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Source of Ivar the Boneless's nickname

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Within the academic field of history, what are the most common specializations in terms of time period, region, and type (i.e. cultural, intellectual, etc.) of history, particularly in the English-speaking world?

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What was the role of a forestry service in WWI-era eastern Europe?

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How does Soviet/Russian historiography cover the Francis Gary Powers U-2 shootdown incident?

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What technological changes allowed for galley crewman to go from being a semi-skilled occupation (i.e. Athenian navy) to something that could be done by slaves (as in the case of the Ottomans)?

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How do the research methods for oral history differ from those for recorded history?

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The textbooks for one of my courses in my first semester of graduate school say that the material record was generally ignored by historians and studied primarily by archaeologists, anthropologists, and other fields until recent decades. What is the reason for this?

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When did the US military stop allowing deployed servicemembers to to consume alcohol?

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What is the most important current scholarship on the philosophy of history?

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Within material culture and architectural history, at what point is it definitely within the field of archaeology and no longer history (assuming that the time period is historic, rather than prehistoric)?

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Source of Ivar the Boneless's nickname	3
Within the academic field of history, what are the most common specializations in terms of time period, region, and type (i.e. cultural, intellectual, etc.) of history, particularly in the English-speaking world?	3
What was the role of a forestry service in WWI-era eastern Europe?	3
How does Soviet/Russian historiography cover the Francis Gary Powers U-2 shootdown incident?	2
What technological changes allowed for galley crewman to go from being a semi-skilled occupation (i.e. Athenian navy) to something that could be done by slaves (as in the case of the Ottomans)?	2
How do the research methods for oral history differ from those for recorded history?	2
The textbooks for one of my courses in my first semester of graduate school say that the material record was generally ignored by historians and studied primarily by archaeologists, anthropologists, and other fields until recent decades. What is the reason for this?	2
When did the US military stop allowing deployed servicemembers to to consume alcohol?	2
What is the most important current scholarship on the philosophy of history?	2
Within material culture and architectural history, at what point is it definitely within the field of archaeology and no longer history (assuming that the time period is historic, rather than prehistoric)?	2