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

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Is there an upper limit on how massive a rocky astronomical body can be without being spherical?

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

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If heavy metals come from supernovas, are there regions of space where more supernovas have occurred so that rocky planets there have more abundant heavy metals?

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Has every Roman Catholic pope met his immediate predecessor? Do we know of any certain counterexamples?

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What European city changed hands the greatest number of times during the 20th century?

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Why is it the convention that Egyptian dynasties are numbered rather than named?

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U.S. president Warren G. Harding's African-American ancestry

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Title	Upvotes	Subreddit	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
What's the consensus on Ossian? Was James Macpherson lying?	8	AskHistorians
Is there an upper limit on how massive a rocky astronomical body can be without being spherical?	8	askscience
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	AskHistorians
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	AskHistorians
Did either side in the American Civil War engage in electronic signals intelligence?	8	AskHistorians
If heavy metals come from supernovas, are there regions of space where more supernovas have occurred so that rocky planets there have more abundant heavy metals?	8	askscience
Has every Roman Catholic pope met his immediate predecessor? Do we know of any certain counterexamples?	7	AskHistorians
What European city changed hands the greatest number of times during the 20th century?	7	AskHistorians
Why is it the convention that Egyptian dynasties are numbered rather than named?	7	AskHistorians
U.S. president Warren G. Harding's African-American ancestry	7	AskHistorians