An modern naval engineer wakes up in Athens during the Peloponnesian War and they are tasked to build a submarine to escape the Spartan blockade. Can they do it?
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All Balkan countries are given one nuke, can they last 50 years with no one nuking anyone else?
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Did Germany seriously consider borrowing Italian fighter pilots for the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain?
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Was the Nazi swastika the first commonly recognized hate symbol? Were there some countries banning certain symbols due to their hateful meaning before WWII?
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Last major conflict that can be completely turned around by one modern main battle tank
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A group of 100k people becomes completely lusted to start their own country and get it recognized by majority of the UN members. Can they do it?
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I loved the drama and engineering aspects of Pillars of the Earth. Are there other similar historical fiction books that heavily draw from an engineering discipline?
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Why are Chinese and Indian football (soccer) teams so bad?
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Modern economic history expert is dropped into Renaissance Italy with 1 kg of gold. Can they become the richest man on Earth?
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Famously neutral Switzerland has nuclear shelters for their entire population. Why did they decide to go much further than any nation directly involved in the nuclear tensions during the Cold War?
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Insurance was around since ancient times, but modern forensic methods were not. How was the insurance fraud prevented?
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Was the use of armoured self-propelled howitzers in the WWII or Korean War actually economical?
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Best Sunday league football/soccer team in England is sent into the past to play one season in the English top flight. What is the latest year, where they can win the title?
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I am a medieval lead shipbuilder. How do I make sure that the ship is built to my ideas, when I can't communicate to my staff with technical drawings?
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Goalless draws in football/soccer are often entertaining to watch
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To what degree can we say that the proliferation of firearms made the feudal system untenable?
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When did large carnivorous animals start being also commonly perceived as cute in the Western world? Why did they become so popular e.g. as plush toys?
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How did spectators not get sick from watching brutal ancient entertainment like the gladiator games? When did majority of population in the Western countries become physically uncomfortable with observing blood and violence unfold in front of them?
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Why is single-issue voting so common in the Hungarian-language areas of Romania?
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When did exotic megafauna become a common knowledge in the Western world?
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Should the US officially recognize Crimea as a Russian territory?
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Strongest nation which could get their coast blockaded by the Nazi U-Boat fleet today
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Why were military coups so common in the 20th century Latin America compared to the rest of the world?
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Is it true that the Italian surface fleet was significantly more powerful force than the German one during WWII?
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