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Is the Cypress of Kashmar on display in Baghdad?
The Cypress of Kashmar was a sacred tree of the Zoroastrians. Apparently, according to the Shahnameh and other sources, it was planted by Zoroaster (or his patron) at the fire temple of Kashmar, and ...
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What was this weapon (or its mechanism), that Iraq was accused of having in the 1990's, called?
Back in the 1990's Iraq was accused of having a missile-based weapon system that could deliver a mist of toxic gas over a large area through a two-phase explosion.
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Could an amphibious attack have succeeded during the Gulf War? [closed]
During the Gulf War (1991), the US Navy and the US Marine Corps had assembled consequent naval and amphibious forces. Some of them (including the battleship Iowa) were attacked by Iraqi antiship ...
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What was the "concession territory" the IPC lost to Qasim's 1961 Public Law 80?
In 1961, the Iraq Petroleum Company, larger owned by foreign corporations, had a monopoly over Iraq's oil fields. Then in 1961, Qasim, Iraq's prime minister, instituted Public Law (PL) 80 to ...
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When did the US invite Iraqi scientists to study nuclear technology/science?
From an interview with Noam Chomsky in September, 2015: "President Bush I, the statesman Bush, even invited Iraqi nuclear engineers to the U.S. for advanced training in weapons production, an ...
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Did Sultan Mehmet IV defeat a Persian champion in single combat?
From Jason Goodwin's popular history of the Ottoman Empire, Lords of the Horizons:
At the siege of Baghdad in 1683, when the Persians demanded the
contest be decided by single combat, they put up ...
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What happened to Iraq's debts after the US toppled the government in 2003?
My curiosity for this question came from Nigel Biggar's book In Defense of War where he explores whether or not containment (in the form of sanctions or otherwise) would have been effective in the ...
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What actions did the USA take in 2003 to prevent other countries from coming to Iraq's aid?
When the US invaded and occupied Iraq in 2003, I believe that neighboring countries and one of their major arms suppliers- Russia- stood down, at best.
What actions did the USA take to dissuade any ...
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American Sniper book vs real life
According to Cynical Historian "He (Chris Kyle) was definitely a liar, exaggerated his own exploits and brash in exposition".
However, I couldn't find any article that focused on the book's ...
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Did the Iraqis really only use landlines during Desert Storm?
I remember reading somewhere -- I think it was in a CIA or NSA briefing paper -- that during Desert Storm, the Iraqis refused to communicate by radio because they were too scared of the U.S. ...
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Why were the losses in the Battle of Norfolk so lopsided?
During the 1991 Gulf War there were a lot of lopsided tank battles where such a large number of Iraqi vehicles got destroyed for very little Coalition losses. For example in the Battle of Norfolk ...
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Who built this monument in Hatra?
Here is an image:
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From what i have read, the Romans never conquered Hatra yet the monuments are disinctly Hellenistic in design. Was it built by the Seleucids?
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Did an American soldier stop riots in Iraq by banning food trucks?
I remember hearing a story once that went something like this:
A behavior specialist for the US Army was sent to a city in Iraq where civil unrest frequently broke out. While studying a major plaza ...
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How many Iraqi civilians were killed directly by US military action?
For a while, I had accepted the line that 100,000+ Iraqis were killed by the US military during the Iraq war. Recently however, a pundit claimed that the actual number killed by the US military is ...
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Were the Hashemite kings of Iraq and Transjordan considered foreign?
The British made two sons of Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, rulers of the new political entities of Transjordan and Iraq after WWI. They were both born in the Hijaz (now in West Saudi Arabia), not ...
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