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What are the chances that a Wehrmacht soldier on the Eastern Front returns home at the end of the war (by the end of 1945) without significant physical disabilities?

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How is it that it took until the mid 19th century for people to understand the negative correlation between keeping a wound clean, and that wound becoming infected?

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How were the Allies able to pull off the D-Day landings without the Germans catching wind of it?

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I'm a civil war soldier, North or South, and I'm wounded in a battle. How hard is it to get "lost" and desert?

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How did (bank) checks and checkwriting work before computers?

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Cigarettes in US 20th C. high schools (pre-1970s)

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Has anyone extrapolated what everyday spoken English might be like in 100 years, based on observed changes in the past?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
What are the chances that a Wehrmacht soldier on the Eastern Front returns home at the end of the war (by the end of 1945) without significant physical disabilities?	341
How is it that it took until the mid 19th century for people to understand the negative correlation between keeping a wound clean, and that wound becoming infected?	34
How were the Allies able to pull off the D-Day landings without the Germans catching wind of it?	22
I'm a civil war soldier, North or South, and I'm wounded in a battle. How hard is it to get "lost" and desert?	12
How did (bank) checks and checkwriting work before computers?	11
Cigarettes in US 20th C. high schools (pre-1970s)	2
Has anyone extrapolated what everyday spoken English might be like in 100 years, based on observed changes in the past?	0