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Was there any connection between the Seleucids and the Seljuks, or is the similarity in names just a coincidence?	8
A "Peppercorn Rent" is one that is a token or symbolic amount. Are there records of rents that were literally "one peppercorn"? Was a peppercorn ever significantly valuable on its own, or was it always intended to be a token amount? And finally, why bother - why not just offer it rent-free?	8
At what point did the white and red roses of the houses of York and Lancaster instead come to symbolise the counties of Yorkshire and Lancashire?	8
How influential was Jan Morris' "Pax Britannica" series? And indeed Morris herself?	7
What, if anything, is known about NATO and/or Warsaw Pact planning vis-a-vis Austria, in the case of a conventional World War 3 breaking out? What about the Austrians themselves?	7
How extensive were efforts to maintain the illusion that "volunteer" troops in 1930s Spain or 1950s Korea were just that, and not organised regular army units?	7
20 years after his leaving office, how does History view John Major's tenure as British Prime Minister?	7
Can anyone tell me more about this picture, posted in r/vexillology	7
In "A View from the Bridge", the characters describe southern Italy in the 1950s as being not only desperately poor with no work available, but also backward with horse-drawn taxis still the norm. Is this accurate, or were Arthur Miller's dockside sources exaggerating for the sake of effect?	7
In a 1973 episode of "Doctor Who" I was just watching, a character says plans were made to build bunkers "back in the Cold War days". Is the show being timey-wimey, or is this evidence of détente? Or both?	6

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