I've read somewhere that the Ottomans had the greatest role in transforming Egypt from a Hellenistic Christian society into an Arab Islamic one. Is this true? How did it happen?

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Why didn't the British colonise Bhutan?

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For how long did Nazi ideals last in Germany after the end of World War 2?

Did German society still hold the beliefs of the Nazi regime after their defeat, and for how long did it last? We all know that Germany now shares almost no connection to the Nazi regime, but when did the Nazi propaganda and beliefs wear off on the German people, or has it always remained, especially in the older generations?

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How was Radar in WW2 fully used to direct planes to target?

Before I get ahead of myself, I am more specifically asking how Radar was used in WW2 in daily use

Example: How did Operators on the ground, direct the German Nightfighters to their target? Did they know the Altitude at the time of early radar, or just the general place inside the "Radar Box" of the Operators. (Applies to British too repelling German bombers)

I've seen various shows and whatnot on Nightfighters and WW2 Radar system deployed by various nations and their effect, but nothing quite into detail how it actually worked back then and was guided to the target.

Cheers!

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Just how old is recorded history?

What defines Recorded History and how old is it?

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When did Serbs and Croats become two different nations?

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What would it have been like to be a upper middle class/royal virgin bride on her wedding night in the Georgian/Regency era in Britain?

I have always wondered how much information these high-born ladies had regards sex. I know the men were well-versed on the topic, but for an upper class woman and members of the royal family being married off for money etc, would they have known the basics of sex and what to expect on their wedding nights?

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Why did the Aztecs believe in their gods?

How did they justify belief in their gods? Same question for the Mayans (whose religious texts seem more widely available, so maybe more people would know).

There seems to be disagreement on even what they thought; most texts seem to agree that they believed enough in their gods and their myths in enough of a literal sense to justify sacrifice to continue the sun's cycle. Others suggest that they (I'll see if I can get a source for where I read this) mainly follow the idea of teotl, and that their gods are merely the incarnation of teotl, and are somewhat abstract. I've been trying to research this but there seems to be little information on the subject, and I can't figure out how they legitimize their claims, if they do at all.

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what was the last battle in which swords were used as the primary weapon?

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Why is the head of the Sphinx at Giza so disproportionately small in comparison to the body?

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We often hear about how war changed in the 20th century due to machine guns and tanks, but how was warfare revolutionized in the 19th century through technological advances? Were there any precursors to the 20th century's changes?

We often hear about how WWI was a bloodbath because of inventions like the machine gun making centuries-old tactics useless, but what were the innovations in the 19th century that revolutionized warfare? What was different in the Napoleonic Wars as opposed to the American Revolution or the Crimean War or the Franco-Prussian War and the American Civil War? Did any of these wars introduce anything new and game-changing?

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Which European country had the highest gdp per capita in 1500, 1600, 1700 and 1800?

And why did countries lose or gain this position in the span of a century?

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Why is the body of the Sphinx at Giza so disproportionately small in comparison to the body?

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How far back in history did the Romans legitimately know about? The Egyptians? The Babylonians? The Sumerians? The Ice Age?

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Why isn't Indonesia a predominantly Catholic nation?

I mean, it was under the Portuguese who did Christianization during their conquests, right? Like Brazil. Or was it because the Dutch took over, which is why Timor is still catholic (since, if I'm not mistaken, they were what's left of the Portuguese empire? But it seems unlikely that the Indonesians went back to Islam after the Portuguese left. The Philippines was catholicized by Spain but still remained catholic even after the Americans.

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The US was involved in dozens of proxy wars throughout the Cold War but none of them escalated to full US military engagements. What was different about Vietnam? Why was it special?

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What was the ruling government during the French Revolution?

More specifically, the French government between the Storming of the Bastille and Napoleon's coup d'etat.

How exactly did this government come to power after the monarchy was overthrown? Did it have power over all of France? Was it centralized at all, or was France in a period of anarchy?

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What reason made Arab unification impossible?

There were two attempt of unification of Arab nations; United Arab Republic (Egypt, Syria) and Federation of Arab Republic (Libya, Egypt, Syria). Both of them seems like a good idea to me, considering most of these Arabic nations have border succeeded from colonialism times and they were divided by major power's politics. What made this unification difficult and failed? Why there is no attempt of unification anymore? Was this even realistic?

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Have pre-elections polls ever been dead wrong?

Polls usually do a good job of prediction outcomes, especially in modern western elections, but have polls ever been wrong, and the result of an election (disputed or otherwise) been way off what was expected?

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The TV series "Peaky Blinders" shows a huge number of murders and gang warfare in 1920s England. What was the murder rate like? Did it spike after World War I? Were there sophisticated ethnic-based gangs in London or Birmingham at the time?

I realize that the show is clearly fictional and sensationalized, but I'm curious as to what post-WWI organized crime would have looked like in England and whether the scale of crime and murder was anything like what the show depicts.

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Where did the theory of a "God" or "Greater Power"originate?

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How many American soldiers were wounded or dead before the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

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Candles and fire management before the age of electricity. Were small fires common? What kind of etiquette or rules were common? How in an age of greater alcohol consumption did more fires not happen? Or did they? How did people fight small fires besides buckets of water?

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I'm looking for any sort of information on 1850's nurse outfit from France. Pictures, written accounts, materials used, etc...

I haven' been able to find anything in books or the internet!

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Why is the Charge of the Light Brigade so famous or important?

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