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The Most Epic Combat Beatdowns From US Military History	3	12 Jul 2020 4:04 p.m. PST
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Teddy!	1	09 Jul 2020 11:40 a.m. PST
Asian American History	2	08 Jul 2020 6:58 p.m. PST
Looking at War Across 2,500 Years	4	04 Jul 2020 12:11 p.m. PST
Baron Larrey – Napoleonic inventor of ambulances, triage	1	30 Jun 2020 10:45 p.m. PST
Discussing History on TMP	39	28 Jun 2020 10:05 a.m. PST
Great POW Escapes	1	24 Jun 2020 10:23 p.m. PST
Rethinking Easter Island’s Historic ‘Collapse’	1	20 Jun 2020 10:05 p.m. PST
The Surprising History of Unmanned Navy Systems	4	19 Jun 2020 7:11 a.m. PST
Worst Weapons of WWII: Luckily Some Were Never Used	3	18 Jun 2020 3:38 p.m. PST
Losing my mojo	16	17 Jun 2020 2:08 p.m. PST
Worst Accidents With My Miniatures	34	16 Jun 2020 9:14 p.m. PST
10 of the Biggest Lies in History	26	15 Jun 2020 7:08 p.m. PST
RIP Martin Marix Evans, historian and battlefield champion	11	14 Jun 2020 8:13 p.m. PST
Turncoats and Traitors – Seven Americans Who Defected	3	12 Jun 2020 11:52 a.m. PST
“Fake History” is More Dangerous Than “Fake News”	16	11 Jun 2020 8:13 p.m. PST
Military History: Required Curriculum?	28	09 Jun 2020 9:37 a.m. PST
Irish military history tourism	1	06 Jun 2020 10:22 p.m. PST
Too many project ideas!!	15	05 Jun 2020 4:34 p.m. PST
The Master List of Historical Women in Combat	4	04 Jun 2020 10:41 p.m. PST
Life as a History Blogger (and what you can learn from...	5	03 Jun 2020 12:50 p.m. PST
Book Review, The Cretan War 1645-1671 Helion & Co	7	28 May 2020 9:32 p.m. PST
Historical Reflections On The ‘Grey Zone’	1	25 May 2020 3:44 p.m. PST
All warfare is based on deception ....	14	25 May 2020 11:31 a.m. PST
Unintentionally Hilarious Military Incidents	4	23 May 2020 12:04 a.m. PST
Alexander, Alfred, Peter & Frederick	12	22 May 2020 8:22 p.m. PST
Brigade de fusiliers marins (History)	1	20 May 2020 9:47 p.m. PST
Does Chinese Civilization Come From Ancient Egypt?	5	15 May 2020 6:19 a.m. PST
America's Hidden Battlefields	5	14 May 2020 12:48 p.m. PST
Artists Who Lost Their Lives on the Battlefield	1	12 May 2020 3:48 p.m. PST
Trivia Quiz - Women at War	7	12 May 2020 11:49 a.m. PST
Royal sibling rivalry: Henry VIII, Richard III and	3	12 May 2020 11:48 a.m. PST
Largest Battles in History	1	11 May 2020 10:16 p.m. PST
The Issue with Russian History	15	08 May 2020 2:17 p.m. PST
Horses coat of Many Colors	4	07 May 2020 12:07 p.m. PST
The Most Terrifying Civilizations In The History of the	3	05 May 2020 12:06 p.m. PST
Famous War Horses in History and Who rode Them	3	05 May 2020 11:56 a.m. PST
BUFFs and Eagles over New Orleans on Friday	6	03 May 2020 2:40 a.m. PST
War is Not The Only Place…	7	30 Apr 2020 11:43 a.m. PST
A Soldier's View of Battle through the Ages	1	29 Apr 2020 9:35 p.m. PST
Women Warriors	3	29 Apr 2020 9:34 p.m. PST
Circassia, home of the world’s most beautiful women	9	29 Apr 2020 9:33 p.m. PST
All the Ways We’ve Wiped: The History of Toilet Paper	11	29 Apr 2020 6:30 p.m. PST
Treatment of War Wounds: A Historical Review	3	28 Apr 2020 12:59 p.m. PST
Three Lessons of Peace: From the Congress of Vienna to	1	24 Apr 2020 3:20 p.m. PST
How Diseases Spread: Ways People Have Tried to	3	24 Apr 2020 11:46 a.m. PST
Questions about Russia you were too embarrassed to ask	5	22 Apr 2020 7:43 p.m. PST
The Father of My Spirit: Scharnhorst, Clausewitz,...	3	22 Apr 2020 12:03 p.m. PST
AWI question	13	20 Apr 2020 10:08 a.m. PST
Losing Ground: The Most Controversial Retreats in Military	1	18 Apr 2020 11:56 a.m. PST
The courage to forgive	7	18 Apr 2020 1:50 a.m. PST
Top down paper armies?	11	17 Apr 2020 10:40 a.m. PST
Virtual Tour - International Spy Museum	1	17 Apr 2020 8:08 a.m. PST
Brilliant Military Retreats	10	16 Apr 2020 11:55 p.m. PST
Diaries, Memorials, Personal Reminiscences	4	13 Apr 2020 8:56 p.m. PST
WWI Wings of War - SMG Club Game (2-29-20)	3	10 Apr 2020 7:20 a.m. PST
Global deaths in conflicts since the year 1400	5	09 Apr 2020 12:16 p.m. PST
Ever Move and Misplace/Lose Your Minis?	27	08 Apr 2020 5:16 a.m. PST
India’s greatest warrior Emperors and Kings	1	06 Apr 2020 10:22 p.m. PST
The Most Doomed Expeditions in History	6	06 Apr 2020 11:32 a.m. PST
Unusual Experiments by the U.S. Military	1	04 Apr 2020 10:06 p.m. PST
Visual History of the World	1	31 Mar 2020 9:40 p.m. PST
Biggest Lies in History	7	30 Mar 2020 7:02 p.m. PST
How to Write a War Story	4	30 Mar 2020 3:35 p.m. PST
The Most Badass Women in Chinese History	3	25 Mar 2020 12:01 p.m. PST
Too many helmets and too much mail and armor?	21	24 Mar 2020 8:30 p.m. PST
Colonialism and Nationalism in Southeast Asia	1	20 Mar 2020 9:13 p.m. PST
Horse heroes	6	18 Mar 2020 9:45 p.m. PST
How can I know what to buy?	12	17 Mar 2020 2:40 a.m. PST
Clausewitz and His… Singularity?	1	10 Mar 2020 3:17 p.m. PST
Cavalry roles	1	07 Mar 2020 10:32 p.m. PST
Little-Known Asian Battles That Changed History	1	07 Mar 2020 12:47 p.m. PST
Who was Sun Tzu’s Napoleon?	3	01 Mar 2020 3:19 p.m. PST
More Saint Petersburg museums	7	01 Mar 2020 5:55 a.m. PST
In a post-truth world, how do we study history?	31	28 Feb 2020 8:08 p.m. PST
Trivia Quiz - If Only They Disobeyed Orders	9	25 Feb 2020 7:27 p.m. PST
History of Russian Footwear	3	25 Feb 2020 11:14 a.m. PST
How Ancient Poop Debunked Myth of Native American...	6	22 Feb 2020 12:00 p.m. PST
Worst Military Decision in History?	76	20 Feb 2020 6:21 p.m. PST
Brown Death: A History of Poop As a Weapon	14	16 Feb 2020 12:05 p.m. PST
12th Cavalry Regiment History	3	08 Feb 2020 12:17 p.m. PST
Can you ID This Helmet?	12	08 Feb 2020 9:16 a.m. PST
How British Soldiers' Rations Have Changed Over	3	07 Feb 2020 9:40 p.m. PST
The Most Memorable Pop Songs From War Movies	17	07 Feb 2020 6:38 p.m. PST
Significant Sieges: Eight of the Most Consequential Sieges	3	07 Feb 2020 11:59 a.m. PST
Best Preserved European Battlefield?	29	07 Feb 2020 8:32 a.m. PST
The War Over Plunder: Who Owns Art Stolen in War?	6	04 Feb 2020 4:15 a.m. PST
Best Preserved European Battlefield? Culloden!	12	01 Feb 2020 9:59 a.m. PST
“Fake History” is More Dangerous Than “Fake News”	26	30 Jan 2020 9:56 p.m. PST
Mind-Blowing Alternate Versions of History	8	29 Jan 2020 6:52 p.m. PST
Biggest Scoundrels in European History?	40	28 Jan 2020 3:00 p.m. PST
Fort Pickens walkaround	7	27 Jan 2020 4:20 p.m. PST
The effect of guns recoil for their own ship - question	11	26 Jan 2020 2:12 p.m. PST
Light Infantry in the Defense: Expliting the Reverse Slope	6	25 Jan 2020 11:52 a.m. PST
What If? Alternate Histories Imagining a Very ....	3	25 Jan 2020 11:44 a.m. PST
When Feeding the Troops, Flavor is Rarely on the Menu	4	25 Jan 2020 11:35 a.m. PST
Revisionist History	6	23 Jan 2020 12:10 p.m. PST