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In Chinese history, you often here of certain objects, like Imperial Seals or Tiger Tallies that invest their holders with authority. Did people actually care so much about who physically held the symbol of command, or am I missing something?

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Did Roman war chariots really determine the standard gauge of US railroad tracks?

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Did GIs returning from Italy after WWII help popularize pizza in the United States?

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Did the Red Army really have 35,000 tanks in 1941?

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Peter Jennings (or other 90s network news anchor) confronted in Jerusalem by man carrying pistol?

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How did contemporaries refer to historical monarch with numbers? Eg Alexander IV, Artaxerxes II, Phillip II? Did they use the numbers? If not how did they distinguish them?

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How much of an effect did canning have on military logistics in the Napoleonic wars and immediately after?

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What was the scale of the Babylonian Captivity?

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Is it true that pizza was invented by Italian immigrants in New York, rather than in Italy?

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When (and where) did weaving go from being something women did to something men did?

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In Chinese history, you often here of certain objects, like Imperial Seals or Tiger Tallies that invest their holders with authority. Did people actually care so much about who physically held the symbol of command, or am I missing something?	1	AskHistorians
Did Roman war chariots really determine the standard gauge of US railroad tracks?	1	AskHistorians
Did GIs returning from Italy after WWII help popularize pizza in the United States?	1	AskHistorians
Did the Red Army really have 35,000 tanks in 1941?	1	AskHistorians
Peter Jennings (or other 90s network news anchor) confronted in Jerusalem by man carrying pistol?	1	AskHistorians
How did contemporaries refer to historical monarch with numbers? Eg Alexander IV, Artaxerxes II, Phillip II? Did they use the numbers? If not how did they distinguish them?	1	AskHistorians
How much of an effect did canning have on military logistics in the Napoleonic wars and immediately after?	1	AskHistorians
What was the scale of the Babylonian Captivity?	1	AskHistorians
Is it true that pizza was invented by Italian immigrants in New York, rather than in Italy?	0	AskHistorians
When (and where) did weaving go from being something women did to something men did?	0	AskHistorians