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After the execution of Charles I in 1649, what was the basis for the continuation of noble titles in England, Scotland, and Ireland? Did the Commonwealth and Protectorate have the ability to confer peerages and knighthoods, and were these recognised by other states and/or after the Restoration?	23
In the closing stages of the Boshin War, the Imperial army that landed on Hokkaido had to deal with two modern forts that had been built in the 1860s: a high-walled coastal for (the Benten Daiba) and a Vauban-style star fort (the Goryokaku). Why and how were they built?	23
How long would a European monarch typically spend physically spend seated on their throne in, say, the 16th century?	23
How did the idea of the 'Nine Worthies' (Hector, Alexander, Caesar; Joshua, David, Judas Maccabeus; Arthur, Charlemagne, Godfrey of Bouillon) as exemplars of chivalric virtue come to be canonised? How widespread was recognition? Did different places have different versions of the nine?	23
AskHistorians Podcast Episode 191 - The Cyrus Cylinder with Trevor Culley	23
If your song was covered by The Beatles in the early 1960s, would you make much money? How did music copyright work around then?	23
In Total War: Rome II, 'Celtic', 'Germanic' and 'Balkan' are distinct and mutually exclusive cultural groups, but how dissimilar would peoples from, say, Gaul, Illyria, and modern-day Germany have been in the 3rd-1st centuries BCE, e.g. in terms of material culture, language and so on?	22
In 1503, the town council of Nuremberg, Germany, limited the playing of marble games to a meadow outside the town. Or so says Wikipedia. But is there any evidence for this claim? And if so, what might have occasioned this decision?	22
AskHistorians Podcast Episode 154 - The Sasanian Empire	22
Hellenistic Jewish scholars such as Josephus and Philo often wrote in Greek. Did this help bring Jewish writing and scholarship to a wider audience? How was their work received in the classical Mediterranean world in Greek and Roman circles?	22

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