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How did England go from requiring everyone learn archery, to today, restricting ownership most personal weapons?

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I have learned recently that most bayoneted charges resulted in not a ad hoc spear fight, but the defending side usually just running away. If this is so, then how did armies before gunpowder ever get the nerve to get up close and hack at each other?

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Has there ever been a large population of peoples Indigenous to the Americas, who have survived outside of the Americas?

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[WP] A mars rover finds decaying plutonium on mars from over 20,000 years ago.

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Did European colonial powers place their best military forces in Europe or in their colonies.

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[WP] Scientists are able to clone historical figures. They come out as old as they were when they died, then they age in reverse. it has be many decades since the technology has been invented, and you run a daycare/retirement home for historical toddlers and babies at the end of their second life.

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[WP] Universal Groundhog Day. Everyone in the world is living the same day over again.

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What is the likelihood of us being completely ignorant or mislead about a people, culture, civilization or event due to historical revisionists who mis-translated or destroyed the records? And, is there an instance of this happening where we eventually learned the truth?

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[WP] A specific plant is able to grow only using fertilizer from the corpse of as specific dead species, making graveyards farms

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The island of Niihau had been privately owned since 1864, and closed to outsiders since 1915. How did two Japanese immigrants come to live their during the Niihau incident in 1941?

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How did England go from requiring everyone learn archery, to today, restricting ownership most personal weapons?	6	AskHistorians
I have learned recently that most bayoneted charges resulted in not a ad hoc spear fight, but the defending side usually just running away. If this is so, then how did armies before gunpowder ever get the nerve to get up close and hack at each other?	5	AskHistorians
Has there ever been a large population of peoples Indigenous to the Americas, who have survived outside of the Americas?	5	AskHistorians
[WP] A mars rover finds decaying plutonium on mars from over 20,000 years ago.	4	WritingPrompts
Did European colonial powers place their best military forces in Europe or in their colonies.	4	AskHistorians
[WP] Scientists are able to clone historical figures. They come out as old as they were when they died, then they age in reverse. it has be many decades since the technology has been invented, and you run a daycare/retirement home for historical toddlers and babies at the end of their second life.	4	WritingPrompts
[WP] Universal Groundhog Day. Everyone in the world is living the same day over again.	3	WritingPrompts
What is the likelihood of us being completely ignorant or mislead about a people, culture, civilization or event due to historical revisionists who mis-translated or destroyed the records? And, is there an instance of this happening where we eventually learned the truth?	3	AskHistorians
[WP] A specific plant is able to grow only using fertilizer from the corpse of as specific dead species, making graveyards farms	3	WritingPrompts
The island of Niihau had been privately owned since 1864, and closed to outsiders since 1915. How did two Japanese immigrants come to live their during the Niihau incident in 1941?	3	AskHistorians