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What was Winston Churchill's personal opinion of Harry Truman?

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What's the consensus on Ossian? Was James Macpherson lying?

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Which “classic” Dungeons & Dragons monsters were truly the original ideas of the game’s creators, as opposed to being adaptations from existing literature or folklore?

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When did it become customary to drink wine from stemware?

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Did either side in the American Civil War engage in electronic signals intelligence?

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Brown Brothers Harriman's foreclosure and seizure on the national railway of Nicaragua

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Did people outside of Egypt have knowledge of how to read and write Egyptian hieroglyphs? Were there scholars in, say, Rome, Mesopotamia, Persia or Greece who studied hieroglyphs?

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Why was Mussolini's Italy willing to enter WWII on the side of the Axis, given that this cut off Italy's access to Ethiopia?

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Our of the Egyptian pantheon, why was Isis the deity that attracted a following in the Roman Empire beyond Egypt? What did Egyptians think of this phenomenon?

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Reactions of Greeks, Romans, Egyptians and others to Hebrew monotheism

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
What was Winston Churchill's personal opinion of Harry Truman?	9
What's the consensus on Ossian? Was James Macpherson lying?	8
Which “classic” Dungeons & Dragons monsters were truly the original ideas of the game’s creators, as opposed to being adaptations from existing literature or folklore?	8
When did it become customary to drink wine from stemware?	8
Did either side in the American Civil War engage in electronic signals intelligence?	8
Brown Brothers Harriman's foreclosure and seizure on the national railway of Nicaragua	8
Did people outside of Egypt have knowledge of how to read and write Egyptian hieroglyphs? Were there scholars in, say, Rome, Mesopotamia, Persia or Greece who studied hieroglyphs?	8
Why was Mussolini's Italy willing to enter WWII on the side of the Axis, given that this cut off Italy's access to Ethiopia?	8
Our of the Egyptian pantheon, why was Isis the deity that attracted a following in the Roman Empire beyond Egypt? What did Egyptians think of this phenomenon?	8
Reactions of Greeks, Romans, Egyptians and others to Hebrew monotheism	7