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How exactly was Skanderbeg able to outwit the mighty Ottoman Empire for so long?

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How exactly did the Germans cross a heavily guarded Polish border in order to realize the Jablonkow incident?

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The dynastic union of Castile and Aragon seems to have rapidly coalesced into a unified Spanish kingdom. Why couldn't the later dynastic union of Spain and Portugal achieve the same results?

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When did a society of shared and redistributed wealth begin to be referred to as 'communism'?

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Was the baby boom in the West an act of celebration or an act of desperation?

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How much oil (and/or other unavailable resources) did Nazi Germany have to import? Where did they get it from?

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One thing I've noticed from playing historical war games is that it is extremely difficult to avoid killing your own melee troops with fire from their ranged support. How was this prevented by medieval and early modern militaries?

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Can someone verify this story I heard about a WWI submarine?

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What was the de facto difference between countries like Belarus and Georgia, which were within the political borders of the Soviet Union, and countries like Poland or Czechoslovakia, which were not?

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I am a Christian living before the Councils of Nicea and Chalcedon. How do I decide which view of Christianity to hold? How much of it is my own intuition, and how much is politically motivated?

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How exactly was Skanderbeg able to outwit the mighty Ottoman Empire for so long?	4
How exactly did the Germans cross a heavily guarded Polish border in order to realize the Jablonkow incident?	4
The dynastic union of Castile and Aragon seems to have rapidly coalesced into a unified Spanish kingdom. Why couldn't the later dynastic union of Spain and Portugal achieve the same results?	4
When did a society of shared and redistributed wealth begin to be referred to as 'communism'?	4
Was the baby boom in the West an act of celebration or an act of desperation?	4
How much oil (and/or other unavailable resources) did Nazi Germany have to import? Where did they get it from?	4
One thing I've noticed from playing historical war games is that it is extremely difficult to avoid killing your own melee troops with fire from their ranged support. How was this prevented by medieval and early modern militaries?	4
Can someone verify this story I heard about a WWI submarine?	4
What was the de facto difference between countries like Belarus and Georgia, which were within the political borders of the Soviet Union, and countries like Poland or Czechoslovakia, which were not?	4
I am a Christian living before the Councils of Nicea and Chalcedon. How do I decide which view of Christianity to hold? How much of it is my own intuition, and how much is politically motivated?	3