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How much (if any) archaeological evidence exists to suggest that St. Thomas visited India?

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Why doesn't flowing water freeze at 32 F?

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How could the US finance both the Vietnam War and the Space Program in the 1960s?

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Did the Soviet Union have normal town and city police in addition to the NKVD?

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What did the Nazis di with the hair of female gas chamber victims?

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Is there any evidence that The Prince was intended as satire or an admonishment, and not as a set of instructions or a guide to political life?

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In Shakespeare's Henry VI, part 3, Gloucester boasts that he could "set the murderous Machiavel to school." How familiar were Elizabethan audiences with Machiavelli? Would they have noticed the anachronism?

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What happened to people in Germany who were "De-Housed" during Allied bombing?

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As an Entente Power, did Japan have a role in the peace negotiations of 1918?

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is it true that ancient Roman script did not have punctuation or spacing between words? If so how did people even read it?

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How much (if any) archaeological evidence exists to suggest that St. Thomas visited India?	10	AskHistorians
Why doesn't flowing water freeze at 32 F?	9	askscience
How could the US finance both the Vietnam War and the Space Program in the 1960s?	8	AskHistorians
Did the Soviet Union have normal town and city police in addition to the NKVD?	8	AskHistorians
What did the Nazis di with the hair of female gas chamber victims?	7	AskHistorians
Is there any evidence that The Prince was intended as satire or an admonishment, and not as a set of instructions or a guide to political life?	7	AskHistorians
In Shakespeare's Henry VI, part 3, Gloucester boasts that he could "set the murderous Machiavel to school." How familiar were Elizabethan audiences with Machiavelli? Would they have noticed the anachronism?	6	AskHistorians
What happened to people in Germany who were "De-Housed" during Allied bombing?	5	AskHistorians
As an Entente Power, did Japan have a role in the peace negotiations of 1918?	5	AskHistorians
is it true that ancient Roman script did not have punctuation or spacing between words? If so how did people even read it?	4	AskHistorians