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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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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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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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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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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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I recently purchased a Japanese Type 99 rifle from WW2. How are there so many Type 99s on the market in the US? Were they all brought home as war trophies by GIs, or were any exported after the war?

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

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In terms of potential nuclear war, is any one incident considered the “closest” of all close calls?

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Why was Austria excluded from the 1871 unification of Germany?

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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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Was the US submarine campaign against Japan during WW2 a violation of the laws of war by the legal standards of that era?	5	AskHistorians
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	AskHistorians
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	AskHistorians
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	AskHistorians
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	AskHistorians
I recently purchased a Japanese Type 99 rifle from WW2. How are there so many Type 99s on the market in the US? Were they all brought home as war trophies by GIs, or were any exported after the war?	5	AskHistorians
How was the German Peasants’ War of 1524-1525 addressed by Nazi historiography?	5	AskHistorians
In terms of potential nuclear war, is any one incident considered the “closest” of all close calls?	5	AskHistorians
Why was Austria excluded from the 1871 unification of Germany?	5	AskHistorians
Decades ago, enlisted men could be pilots in the US Armed Forces. Why are only officers now eligible to fly aircraft?	5	AskHistorians