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The 1860 US Presidential election saw a four candidate race and the Constitutional Unionist Party won KY, VA, and TN, and Breckenridge won DE and MY. Did anything interesting subsequently happen in these states because of which way they voted?	15
How did the Abrahamic religions develop the idea of monotheism from the First Commandment rather than perhaps say a King of the Gods like Jupiter?	15
What was the closest the remaining US states came to banning slavery without the 13th amendment doing it for them?	15
In the law of Medieval Europe (pretend it is 1450 in the Electorate of Saxony), how was the formal punishment for crimes different based on the social class of the victim and perpetrator?	13
What would a typical treaty between a Roman client city in Italy and the Roman Republic look like, what kinds of rights and obligations did each side have and how autonomous were the Roman client cities?	12
When the American military had a draft for Vietnam, what was the purpose of sending draftees to Vietnam itself instead of to places like Germany or domestic bases in order to free up volunteer enlistees to send to Vietnam?	12
How do we keep the calendars straight when looking at cultures and people with different ways of tracking time?	12
When Romulus Augustus was ousted in 476 CE, did people at the time view the Western Roman Empire as dead or simply under some new management?	11
Why do authoritarian regimes in the past appear to use close to unanimity for fake electoral support as opposed to today where Putin openly shows that almost 37% of people didn't vote for him in 2012 with 65% turnout?	10
How did East Germany portray the Great War?	10

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