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During WWII there are a number of photographs of showing WInston Churchill in a general officer uniform for the British Army and the RAF. As Minister of Defense did he give himself a promotion to Major General?	10	AskHistorians
[WP] You have survived the Twilight Zone, escaped the Phantom Zone, crossed the edge of the universe, and looked beyond the veil between life and death, but now you find yourself in the most horrifying place you have ever seen... the Department of Motor Vehicles!	10	WritingPrompts
[WP] You're a social worker, overworked as usual. The word around the office was that if you were over 40 cases refer the files to a halfway house run by a charity. It seemed to check out. But you found a file on them with a note saying "only visit at night". The oldest file was from 80 years ago...	10	WritingPrompts
I am aware that various European monarchs and governments tried to stop the consumption of coffee at times after it was made available - did this happen to tea as well?	9	AskHistorians
In Victorian England was the daily viewing of children real?	9	AskHistorians
[WP] In the year 1938, a young policeman on special duties was clubbed and thrown into the dark waters of New York’s vicious dockland. Miraculously, he lived but was condemned forever to a wheelchair. His twisted thoughts turned to the occult...	9	WritingPrompts
I know that we try and avoid 'what if' scenarios here, but did Kaiser Wilhelm II show any desire or even willingness to return to Germany and rule if any of the plots against Hitler had succeeded?	9	AskHistorians
[WP] "When we pass beyond the lights of a precinct station, we go into another world. A place beyond right and wrong."	9	WritingPrompts
[WP] Being the new super of an old apartment building, you need to survey the building to prepare for the inspector. You find a sealed storage room filled with forgotten luggage from old tenants. You open them one at a time, finding yellowed photographs, old letters, and journals - whole lives.	9	WritingPrompts
Did the Tokugawa Shogunate or any shogunate or Japanese Emperor ever send of emissaries or ambassadors abroad before Japan's period of isolation from the outside world, and where did they go?	9	AskHistorians

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