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Decades ago, enlisted men could be pilots in the US Armed Forces. Why are only officers now eligible to fly aircraft?

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I’m a 20-year-old Japanese man who enters the Japanese Army as an infantryman in 1941. What would the enlistment process have been like? Am I more likely a conscript or a volunteer? What was my basic training experience like?

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How was the German Peasants’ War of 1524-1525 addressed by Nazi historiography?

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Convoys proved an effective means of protecting merchant shipping from U-boats in WW1, so why were the Allies so slow to implement convoys in WW2?

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I just committed a murder in New York in 1784. There are no police, so who tracks me down, apprehends me, and takes me to court?

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Is there any evidence about George Washington’s sense of humor?

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In 1676, after being commanded via letter to submit to Ottoman rule, the Zaporozhian Cossacks famously replied with a hilariously profane letter of refusal. Is there any record of how this insult was received by sultan Mehmed IV? Did he retaliate in any way?

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Why was Austria excluded from the 1871 unification of Germany?

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Regarding the lone Viking warrior single-handedly holding off the Anglo-Saxons on Stamford Bridge in 1066…what is the prevailing academic view on the veracity of this story?

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Was the US submarine campaign against Japan during WW2 a violation of the laws of war by the legal standards of that era?

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Decades ago, enlisted men could be pilots in the US Armed Forces. Why are only officers now eligible to fly aircraft?	5
I’m a 20-year-old Japanese man who enters the Japanese Army as an infantryman in 1941. What would the enlistment process have been like? Am I more likely a conscript or a volunteer? What was my basic training experience like?	5
How was the German Peasants’ War of 1524-1525 addressed by Nazi historiography?	5
Convoys proved an effective means of protecting merchant shipping from U-boats in WW1, so why were the Allies so slow to implement convoys in WW2?	5
I just committed a murder in New York in 1784. There are no police, so who tracks me down, apprehends me, and takes me to court?	5
Is there any evidence about George Washington’s sense of humor?	5
In 1676, after being commanded via letter to submit to Ottoman rule, the Zaporozhian Cossacks famously replied with a hilariously profane letter of refusal. Is there any record of how this insult was received by sultan Mehmed IV? Did he retaliate in any way?	5
Why was Austria excluded from the 1871 unification of Germany?	5
Regarding the lone Viking warrior single-handedly holding off the Anglo-Saxons on Stamford Bridge in 1066…what is the prevailing academic view on the veracity of this story?	5
Was the US submarine campaign against Japan during WW2 a violation of the laws of war by the legal standards of that era?	5