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Peter Thiel-backed crypto exchange Bullish files for an IPO, plans to trade on the NYSE, and reports a net loss of ~$349M on digital asset sales of $80M in Q1 (Bloomberg)
Source: Blackstone has withdrawn from the consortium led by Susquehanna and General Atlantic seeking to invest in TikTok US, after considering a minority stake (Reuters)
Ring reinstated its mission to "make neighborhoods safer" and reintroduced video sharing with police in April, as its founder led an overhaul since his return (Eugene Kim/Business Insider)
S&P Global says Block will join the S&P 500 on July 23, after announcing Monday that ad tech firm The Trade Desk will also be added; XYZ jumps 9%+ after hours (Ari Levy/CNBC)
Source: the CEO and the chief people officer of Astronomer were put on leave after a video of them cuddling on a kiss cam at a Coldplay concert went viral (Eleanor Hawkins/Axios)
Adobe updates its Firefly video model and adds a beta Generate Sound Effects tool that can create custom sounds from text prompts and the user's voice (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET)
Sources: Cursor maker Anysphere acquired Koala, an AI-powered CRM startup that raised a $15M Series A five months ago; Koala plans to shut down in September (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
Clothing inventory monetization startup CaaStle's ex-CEO Christine Hunsicker is charged with defrauding investors of more than $300M over the past six years (Larry Neumeister/Associated Press)
President Trump signs the GENIUS Act, and says the first federal bill to regulate stablecoins will "secure the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency" (Bloomberg)
SPAC Insider: SPACs are booming in 2025, with 74 blank check companies going public so far in 2025, raising about $14.7B and beating 2022 total of $13.4B (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
Google files a lawsuit in the US against 25 unnamed individuals in China, accusing them of operating the BadBox 2.0 botnet, compromising 10M+ devices worldwide (Jessica Lyons/The Register)
BrightAI, an AI-powered service using custom chips and devices to monitor critical infrastructure, raised a $51M Series A, source says at a $300M valuation (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
Microsoft shuts down the Movies & TV storefront on the Microsoft Store on Windows and Xbox; users will continue to be able to access their past purchases (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
Germany-based Q.ANT, which is developing energy-efficient photonic processors for AI and high-performance computing, raised a €62M Series A (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
SEC Chairman Paul Atkins says the GENIUS Act is a "historic step" and the SEC is weighing an "innovation exemption" from regulations to incentivize tokenization (Bloomberg)
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Kiro: The AI IDE for prototype to production
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SwissTransfer.com - 安全免费发送大文件
My favorite use-case for AI is writing logs • Buttondown
The Tiny Percentage of Trans People Who “Detransition” Largely Do So Because of Transphobia
OpenCut-app/OpenCut: The open-source CapCut alternative
The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work
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Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity - METR
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ICE Lawyers Are Hiding Their Names in Immigration Court
Secret changes to major U.S. health datasets raise alarms
27 Notes On Growing Old(er) - by Ian Leslie - The Ruffian
new Date("wtf")
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Should You Get a Heat Pump? Take Our 2-Question Quiz. - The New York Times
[2507.11473] Chain of Thought Monitorability: A New and Fragile Opportunity for AI Safety
AI slows down open source developers. Peter Naur can teach us why • John Whiles
Poor man's bitemporal data system in SQLite and Clojure
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The Solidity Language open-source package was used in a $500,000 crypto heist | Securelist
Animated Knots
エンジニアのための事業貢献入門/A business introduction for engineers - Speaker Deck
Introducing ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action
The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein prison video had nearly three minutes cut out • WIRED
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All AI Models Might Be The Same - by Jack Morris
Asm Editor
Store tags after payloads
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Chain-of-Thought Is Not Explainability
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Context Rot: How Increasing Input Tokens Impacts LLM Performance | Chroma Research
Snapshots of Kids Bike Jumping in the 1970s
A Tour of WebAuthn
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tazjin's blog: Trying Guix: A Nixer's Impressions
Irish tourist jailed by Ice for months after overstaying US visit by three days: ‘Nobody is safe’ | US immigration | The Guardian
L'UE testa una app prototipo per la verifica dell'età online
I'm Switching to Python and Actually Liking It | Hacker News
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Fell in a hole, got out. Medium’s recap, financial turnaround, and difficult path back to health.
NotebookLM adds featured notebooks from The Economist, The Atlantic and others | TechCrunch
BloopAI/vibe-kanban: Kanban board to manage your AI coding agents
The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Tax Records With ICE — ProPublica
Running a million-board chess MMO in a single process · eieio.games
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The police militarization debate is over - by Radley Balko
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It’s Paradise Lost as Climate Change Remakes Europe’s Summers - The New York Times
Censorship for Citizenship - The Atlantic
Inside ICE’s Supercharged Facial Recognition App of 200 Million Images
How was the wheel invented? Computer simulations reveal the unlikely birth of a world-changing technology nearly 6,000 years ago
The Guardian view on the children of Gaza: when 17,000 die, it’s more than a mistake | Editorial | The Guardian
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Lost Chapter of Automate the Boring Stuff: Audio, Video, and Webcams in Python
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Black-owned children's bookstore reopening in Raleigh!
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Across the Multiverse: Black Voices in Speculative Fiction - Virtual Author Panel - Wake County Public Library
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Mango sticky rice
This Dinosaur Probably Tweeted More Than It Roared
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New Clue to How Matter Outlasted Antimatter at the Big Bang Is Found
Ceratosaur Fossil Auctioned for $30.5 Million by Sotheby’s
Videos From the Amazon Reveal an Unexpected Animal Friendship
Snakes Use Smelly Musk to Keep Ants Out of Their Pants
Apollo-Soyuz 50th Anniversary: A Handshake in Orbit That Transformed the Space Race
Earth Is Spinning Faster, Making Some Summer Days Shorter
FDA to Ask Sarepta to Stop Shipping Muscular Dystrophy Drug Elevidys
Robert Alvarez, 76, Dies; Called Attention to Nuclear-Waste Safety
Trump Administration’s N.I.H. and F.D.A. Cuts Could Curtail New Drug Development, Budget Office Says
Heath Insurers Are Denying More Drug Claims, Data Shows
Beware of ‘Swiper,’ a Fox at Grand Teton Park With a Penchant for Footwear
Interior Dept. to Put Wind and Solar Projects Through Stricter Political Review
E.P.A. Delays Required Cleanups of Toxic Coal Ash Landfills
F.D.A. Approves Juul Vapes After Yearslong Delay
Mauna Loa Observatory Is One NOAA Site That Could Close Because of Budget Cuts
F.D.A. Panelists Call for Removal of Warnings on Menopause Treatments
The West’s Megadrought Might Not Let Up for Decades, Study Suggests
Upended by Meth, Some Communities Are Paying Users to Quit
H.H.S. Finalizes Thousands of Layoffs After Supreme Court Decision
Trump Administration Will Limit Medicare Spending on Pricey Bandages
How to Find the Right Medical Rehab Services
Even Grave Errors at Rehab Hospitals Go Unpenalized and Undisclosed
Arizona Governor Seeks Investigation of Federal Handling of Grand Canyon Fire
South African AIDS Activist Pushes for H.I.V. Treatment Access After U.S.-Aid Cuts
Arizona Resident Dies From Plague, Officials Say
Daniel Kleppner, Physicist Who Brought Precision to GPS, Dies at 92
Flash Floods Are the ‘Hardest Kind’ of Disaster to Prevent, Experts Say
Denver Museum Finds a Dinosaur Fossil Under Its Parking Lot

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To the Moon and quack: Books in brief
Asia’s haze affects ice and weather on the Frozen Continent
This ancient mega-predator was built for stealth
Pathology-oriented multiplexing enables integrative disease mapping
Sex at birth is not always random — mum’s age and genetics can play a part
Class of 2025: five PhD students reveal realigned priorities in wake of COVID and cuts
Should I tell anyone that I suspect misconduct in a paper I’m reviewing?
How the world’s biggest bats got their enormous wingspans
How sugar overload in early life affects the brain later
How the brain wakes up from sleep — and produces that morning feeling
How to avoid nuclear war in an era of AI and misinformation
Daily briefing: The birth of a solar system caught ‘on camera’ for the first time
Google tapped billions of mobile phones to detect quakes worldwide — and send alerts
Robots demonstrate principles of collective intelligence
Heart from organ donor restarted outside the body — technique offers new source of organs
AI and misinformation are supercharging the risk of nuclear war
‘Controlled chaos’: how to create an environment that fosters genius
Temperature-Related Hospitalization Burden under Climate Change
Author Correction: BNT162b2 vaccine induces neutralizing antibodies and poly-specific T cells in humans
‘Stealth flippers’ helped this extinct mega-predator stalk its prey
Redox-powered autonomous directional C–C bond rotation under enzyme control
Imidazole propionate is a driver and therapeutic target in atherosclerosis
A male-essential miRNA is key for avian sex chromosome dosage compensation
Immigrant–native pay gap driven by lack of access to high-paying jobs
Neutrophils drive vascular occlusion, tumour necrosis and metastasis
Super-resolution stimulated X-ray Raman spectroscopy
Mitochondrial origins of the pressure to sleep
Dynamic kinetic resolution of phosphines with chiral supporting electrolytes
Ongoing genome doubling shapes evolvability and immunity in ovarian cancer
Identification of medication–microbiome interactions that affect gut infection
Non-antibiotics disrupt colonization resistance against enteropathogens
Long-range hyperbolic polaritons on a non-hyperbolic crystal surface
Remodelling autoactive NLRs for broad-spectrum immunity in plants
Adaptations for stealth in the wing-like flippers of a large ichthyosaur
Dual interfacial H-bonding-enhanced deep-blue hybrid copper–iodide LEDs
Longer scans boost prediction and cut costs in brain-wide association studies
Functional regimes define soil microbiome response to environmental change
Detecting structural heart disease from electrocardiograms using AI
Biphasic liquids with shape-shifting and bistable microdomains
Refractory solid condensation detected in an embedded protoplanetary disk
Liquid–liquid interfacial tension stabilized Li-metal batteries
Observation of charge–parity symmetry breaking in baryon decays
Global terrestrial nitrogen fixation and its modification by agriculture
Prophages block cell surface receptors to preserve their viral progeny
Star flares when an orbiting planet gets too close
The breakthrough proof bringing mathematics closer to a grand unified theory
Human activity redistributes nitrogen fixation across the terrestrial biosphere
The origin of the oldest solid objects in the Solar System
Gut bacteria make a molecule that promotes plaque build-up in arteries
‘Another DeepSeek moment’: Chinese AI model Kimi K2 stirs excitement
How a bipolar diagnosis benefits my research
Genome doubling fuels ovarian cancer evolution and immune dysregulation
Birth of a solar system caught ‘on camera’ for first time
Super-resolution spectroscopy with ‘spiky’ X-ray lasers
‘Landmark’ study: three-person IVF leads to eight healthy children
Plant immune receptor engineered to protect against more than 100 viruses
Giant study finds a research field that’s mostly reproducible
Birds use a tiny RNA fragment to balance sex chromosomes
Daily briefing: The breakthrough proof bringing mathematics closer to a grand unified theory
How to de-Americanize global science
Punchlines for peace
A canine friend to a feline family
Map endemic species before they vanish unrecorded
Invest in data resources to make FAIR a reality
China’s journal ranking system stands up to scrutiny
Critical commentaries such as ‘Matters arising’ have flawed formats
The mysterious missing ingredient in the highest-energy cosmic rays
Low-quality papers based on public health data are flooding the scientific literature
One potent gene raises risk of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and other brain diseases
Without science, there can be no development
Bring science into business schools to train the leaders of tomorrow
Why the global economy is more uncertain than ever, and what to do about it
Monster black hole merger is biggest ever seen
Smart brain-zapping implants could revolutionize Parkinson’s treatment
Publisher Correction: Targeting GRPR for sex hormone-dependent cancer after loss of E-cadherin
Skeletal editing of pyrrolidines by nitrogen-atom insertion
Type 2 cytokines act on enteric sensory neurons to regulate neuropeptide-driven host defense
Polyglycine-mediated aggregation of FAM98B disrupts tRNA processing in GGC repeat disorders
Vaccination to mitigate climate-driven disruptions to malaria control in Madagascar
ASB7 is a negative regulator of H3K9me3 homeostasis
Autoinhibition imposed by a large conformational switch of INO80 regulates nucleosome positioning
Design of intrinsically disordered region binding proteins
Two-dimensional indium selenide wafers for integrated electronics
Controlled colonization of the human gut with a genetically engineered microbial therapeutic
Dome-celled aerogels with ultrahigh-temperature superelasticity over 2273 K
Bridging the pyridine-pyridazine synthesis gap by skeletal editing
Global earthquake detection and warning using Android phones
Midline assembloids reveal regulators of human axon guidance
A wave of Thetis cells imparts tolerance to food antigens early in life
Redox-regulated Aux/IAA multimerization modulates auxin responses
Stigma did not kill my dream
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A new age of molecular chirality
Polyglycine proteins leave transfer RNAs unglued
Disorder meets its match
RORing for oral tolerance
US should reject color-blind racial ideology
Combat disinformation about gender research
US disregards scientific consensus on race
Erratum for the Research Article “Sunlight drives the abiotic formation of nitrous oxide in fresh and marine waters” by E. Leon-Palmero et al.
Haunted by sharks
Molecular fossils show how life survived Snowball Earth
Astronomers race to study third known interstellar interloper
NIH suspends alleged ‘gain-of-function’ studies
U.S. cancels hunt for signs of cosmic inflation
Fruit fly studies mostly defy concerns about irreproducibility
This is not the time to step back from diversity, equity, and inclusion
Science philanthropy faces a new reality
AI to rewire life’s interactome: Structural foundation models help to elucidate and reprogram molecular biology
Unraveling the emergent chorus of the mind: Machine learning reveals how a hidden neural code orchestrates diverse emotion states
Mapping the global coastal ocean with AI: Artificial neural networks can help better constrain the global carbon cycle in shallow seas
The pursuit of 1.5°C endures as a legal and ethical imperative in a changing world
In Science Journals
When It Comes to Jeffrey Epstein, Trump Says He Is Ready to Defer to the Courts
Justice Dept. Asks Manhattan Court to Unseal Epstein Grand Jury Testimony
In Response to Epstein Letter Report, Trump Says He Doesn’t ‘Draw Pictures’
Prisoner Swap Frees Americans in Venezuela for Migrants in El Salvador
To Staff Trump’s Immigration Crackdown, ICE Entices Its Retirees
Stephen Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ Was Losing Millions at CBS Before Cancellation
Lawmakers Question Whether CBS Canceled Colbert’s Show for Political Reasons
Why Is Stephen Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ Getting Canceled?
A Brief History of CBS’s Late-Night Eras
Rubio Restricts U.S. Criticism of Tainted Foreign Elections
Gabbard Claims Obama Administration Tried to Undermine Trump in 2016
White House to Release $1.3 Billion in Frozen Funds for After-School Programs
E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm
Trump’s Withering Criticism of Powell Puts Fed Decisions Under Microscope
Trump’s War With Powell Throws a Little-Known Planning Board Into Scrutiny
How a Video Studio Embraced A.I. and Stormed the Internet
Explosion at Los Angeles Training Center Kills 3 Sheriff’s Deputies
Mamdani Meets Jeffries in Brooklyn as He Seeks to Expand His Coalition
‘A Chorus Line’ and ‘Chicago’ at 50: Who Won?
The Moves That Make ‘Chicago’ and ‘A Chorus Line’ So Special
Felix Baumgartner, Skydiver Who Jumped From the Edge of Space, Dies Paragliding at 56
Why Trump Can’t Shake Jeffrey Epstein
Stephen Colbert Could Never Save Us From Trump
Trump Asked a Court to Unseal Epstein Grand Jury Testimony
NY Agrees to Settle Ex-Cuomo Aide’s Harassment Claims for $450,000
Minnesota State Senator Found Guilty in Burglary Trial
Teen Charged With Murder in Killing of Paddleboarder in Maine
Inside the White House’s Epstein Strategy
Meta Swears This Time Is Different
A Congress That Votes Yes and Hopes No
Why CBS Snatched Its Talk-Show King’s Crown
MAGA Influencers Don’t Understand What Journalism Is
What Andrea Gibson Understood About Very Simple Poetry
The Dispute Behind the Violence in Syria
A Nasty, Cynical, and Eerily Accurate Look at All-Too-Recent History
Photos of the Week: Trust Jump, Canyon Lightning, Chuck-Wagon Race
What to Do With the Most Dangerous Book in America
How the Right Is Waging War on Climate-Conscious Investing
Can This Man Save Harvard?
The Pollster Who Sensed Democracy Was Faltering
Is Colbert’s Ouster Really Just a ‘Financial Decision’?
Make Coca-Cola Great Again
The Power of the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket
Anti-Semitism Gets the DEI Treatment
The Golden Age of Flying Wasn’t All That Golden
Weird, Wonderful Photos From the Archives
How to Be More Charismatic, but Not Too Much More
Romance On-Screen Has Never Been Colder. Maybe That’s Just Truthful.
Former Intel Chief Banned From Dog’s Graduation Ceremony
Iran Has a Mass-Deportation Policy Too
The Razor-Thin Line Between Conspiracy Theory and Actual Conspiracy
Just a Tiny, Minuscule Technicality About the People Held at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

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What we know about the Americans freed in a prisoner swap with Venezuela
Inside the powerful task force spearheading Trump’s assault on colleges, DEI
Shelter dog called ‘cursed Victorian child’ is on cusp of being adopted
Kansas City poured millions into a grocery store. It still may close.
Nationwide ‘Good Trouble’ anti-Trump protests pay tribute to John Lewis
San Francisco tries new tack to battle homelessness: RV parking limits
Latino Catholics are transforming the Church. It’s ‘about time.’
Inside ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ detainees report relentless mosquitoes, limited water
The children lost in the Texas floods, remembered by their loved ones
Researchers are using AI for peer reviews — and finding ways to cheat it
Drugs, blood and terror: Inside a paramilitary massacre in Sudan
Young and Navigating Cancer

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U.S.-Venezuela prisoner swap frees Americans for migrants in El Salvador
Israel says it won’t extend visa of top U.N. humanitarian official
Bolsonaro, accused of urging U.S. hostility, ordered to wear ankle bracelet
Why did Israel attack Syria — and what does it have to do with the Druze
China-linked scam centers target U.S., congressional commission warns
E.U. hits Russia with new round of sanctions targeting energy
Felix Baumgartner, skydiver who free-fell from edge of space, dies in crash
How Ukraine’s allies helped Zelensky recover his standing with Trump
Taiwan extends drills to show China — and Trump — it’s ready to fight
The rest of the world struggles to restrain Israel
Israel strikes the Gaza church the pope used to call nightly, killing 3
Its U.S. funding cut, rights group flees Bukele’s El Salvador
Spurred by Bolsonaro’s son, Trump mulls sanctions on Brazilian judge
Fire in Iraqi mall kills at least 61 people, officials say
Turmoil gives Druze divided between Syria and Israel rare moment of contact
New Russian law criminalizes online searches for controversial content
Flames engulf Tomorrowland’s main stage 2 days before festival starts
Facing gunfire, Haitian police rescue thousands of artworks
Drugs, blood and terror: Inside a paramilitary massacre in Sudan
AI and immigration uncertainty threaten Nigeria’s dreams of becoming an outsourcing hot spot
Ride-hailing giants’ electric promises are stalling worldwide
Tesla finally enters India after a decade of false starts
Fed up with ChatGPT, Latin America is building its own
TikTok’s messy merger in Indonesia could be a preview of what’s to come in the U.S.
Struggling Chinese EV brands go global to flee brutal price war at home
Tireless health workers keep rural telehealth alive despite USAID cuts and poor internet
Why Big Tech is threatened by a global push for data sovereignty
Dangerous mines: A death at the bottom of the EV supply chain
Meta’s grand WhatsApp fintech experiment in India has fizzled
What we’re reading: Rest of World’s summer book list
Brazil wants to be a sustainable data center hub. Environmentalists are skeptical
Oregon State U. Will End a Renowned Program That Aimed to Reduce Bias in Hiring
George Mason President Discriminated Against White People After George Floyd Protests, Justice Dept. Says
The Education Dept. Got a Green Light to Shrink. Here Are 3 Questions About What's Next.
Transitions: New Presidents Named at Colorado College and the U. of Alabama
Congress Cut a Federal Nutrition Program, Jeopardizing Campus Jobs and Community Services
7 Ways Community Colleges Can Boost Enrollment
Should You Use AI to Apply for Jobs?
For Once, Public Confidence in Higher Ed Has Increased
3 College Presidents Went to Congress. Here's What They Talked About.
Homeland Security Agents Detail Run-Up to High-Profile Arrests of Pro-Palestinian Scholars
Friday Free-for-All | July 18, 2025
Short Answers to Simple Questions | July 16, 2025
Pope Gregory I came from a relatively privileged background, with his father a Roman Senator and his family having estates in the city. However, this was after the fall of Western Roman Empire and the devastating Gothic War, where Rome was sacked multiple times. What did "wealthy" look like then?
Ever wonder why no U.S. president has had a beard since the 1800s? I’m Sarah Gold McBride, author of Whiskerology: The Culture of Hair in Nineteenth-Century America, which examines the history of hair and facial hair in the early United States. AMA!
Why are there so many myths about Nikola Tesla ?
Where did the modern hijab originate?
Who were "apple-women" in medieval Europe, and why are they held in such low esteem?
During the Battle of Midway in 1942, why was the IJN light on escorts for their Aircraft Carriers?
Have ticket prices for live music concerts actually gotten more expensive since the "good ol' days" of the 60s and 70s? Has the class character of live music concerts changed?
Do we have any record of how Dante Alighieri's friends and family reacted to how he portrays Beatrice Portinari in his books?
How did baseball become popular in Japan?
Did Popeye the cartoon impact public health?
When and why did Guan Yu become venerated as the God of War in China? How did a 3rd century general of notable but not exactly superhuman success come to be deified in this way?
After the end of Ottoman Empire, did Turkey try to evoke a sense of connection to, or even succession from, the Roman Empire to align itself more closely with Europe?
What did the Germans think the Dieppe raid was?
What amount of maids/butlers would be common in a prominent bachelor's house during the early 1900's?
Why did the states of Germany have such complicated borders for so much of its history?
How did the British intelligence get money and people into France while it was occupied by the Nazis?
AskHistorians Podcast Episode 240: Translating the Crusades with Dr. James Curry
Not related to current politics - Why Israel and not Judah/Judea?
Who were the oligarchs of the antebellum south?
Did the picture of McArthur and Emperor Hirohito change Japanese perception of him as much as is claimed?
How did inflation work in medieval times?
How did Japan approach nuclear civil defense during the Cold War?
Why were there so few attempts to combine torpedo bombing and dive bombing capabilities in the same aircraft in World War II?
Did soldiers in the Italian Liberation Corps really wear the uniforms of dead British soldiers, complete with bullet holes and blood stains?
Who were the African-Americans who voted in the South despite Jim Crow?
Q&A weekly thread - July 14, 2025 - post all questions here!
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