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Did Operation Valkyrie conspirators intend to end the Holocaust after killing Hitler?

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How accepted is the theory that most humans practiced "segmented sleep" prior to the Industrial Revolution?

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The Red Scare is well-known, but did the USSR have its own anti-western "scare" during the Cold War?

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An Askreddit comment with 2000+ upvotes advances an old claim that John Wilkes Booth escaped and lived the rest of his life in the South under several aliases. What have historians written concerning this theory? Is it plausible?

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How did Germans react when Hitler assumed dictatorial powers and banned all other political parties?

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Someone on Askreddit recently claimed that the Rosa Parks event was staged, right down to the man who asked her to get to the back of the bus. How true is this?

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During the Civil War, were Confederate dollars and normal U.S. dollars accepted in both the North and South?

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Was there ever a point in history when armies using primitive gunpowder weapons were at a disadvantage when fighting conventional armies of the era?-- where trying to use those weapons was a liability?

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In public high school, I was always taught that the idea of owning land was completely foreign to Native Americans when European settlers arrived and was a major reason settlers were able to convince natives to sign contracts that ceded land. Is this true?

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In 1875, a few years after leaving the Klan, Nathan Bedford Forrest made a speech in favor of racial harmony and black advancement. How genuine was this?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Did Operation Valkyrie conspirators intend to end the Holocaust after killing Hitler?	3356
How accepted is the theory that most humans practiced "segmented sleep" prior to the Industrial Revolution?	1419
The Red Scare is well-known, but did the USSR have its own anti-western "scare" during the Cold War?	193
An Askreddit comment with 2000+ upvotes advances an old claim that John Wilkes Booth escaped and lived the rest of his life in the South under several aliases. What have historians written concerning this theory? Is it plausible?	138
How did Germans react when Hitler assumed dictatorial powers and banned all other political parties?	132
Someone on Askreddit recently claimed that the Rosa Parks event was staged, right down to the man who asked her to get to the back of the bus. How true is this?	120
During the Civil War, were Confederate dollars and normal U.S. dollars accepted in both the North and South?	104
Was there ever a point in history when armies using primitive gunpowder weapons were at a disadvantage when fighting conventional armies of the era?-- where trying to use those weapons was a liability?	103
In public high school, I was always taught that the idea of owning land was completely foreign to Native Americans when European settlers arrived and was a major reason settlers were able to convince natives to sign contracts that ceded land. Is this true?	94
In 1875, a few years after leaving the Klan, Nathan Bedford Forrest made a speech in favor of racial harmony and black advancement. How genuine was this?	69