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After the execution of Charles I in 1649, what was the basis for the continuation of the peerage and knighthood in the British Isles? Did the Commonwealth and Protectorate governments have the ability to create and confer titles? And did other states in Europe recognise them?	9
During the later years of the Protectorate in England, veterans of the New Model Army apparently began referring to a 'Good Old Cause' for which they fought. What was the 'Good Old Cause'? What about contemporary politics was anathema to it?	9
Did Claudius have any part in the assassination of Caligula? Why did the Praetorians appoint him emperor? Had he cultivated good relations with them in the past?	9
According to Wikipedia, Sergio Leone's 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly' (1966) was marketed in the US as in the third film of a trilogy starting with 'A Fistful of Dollars' (1964), yet 'Fistful' wasn't released in the US until 1967. Why market it as Part 3 of 3 if nobody had seen Part 1 yet?	9
In 1997, Egon Krenz, the last leader of East Germany, was jailed for six and a half years on manslaughter charges. Why did Krenz's prosecution come so late after reunification, and was it at all typical for former senior members of the Socialist Unity Party to be charged in post-unification Germany?	9
Did Britain consider using Indian troops in Europe during the Napoleonic Wars or the Crimea? If they did, why wasn't it done?	9
Bearing in mind the 2000 cutoff date, how have Chick Tracts been received in the US? Have they always been viewed as insane, fringe items, or were they successful in appealing to whatever audience they were intended for (indeed, what was that audience)?	9
Before 1989, Oxford had a markedly higher intake of state school students than Cambridge, yet after 1989 Cambridge began having a consistently higher state school intake. Without violating the 20-year rule, of course, why did this flip happen?	9
The Peelites seem to have emerged suddenly on the British political scene in the 1840s, and then to have vanished about as quickly and folded into the Liberals in the 1850s. How did the original split from the Conservatives come about, and how did an otherwise Tory grouping end up in a Whig faction?	9
It is an oft-repeated piece of trivia that the first German casualty of WW2 was killed by the Japanese in 1937. Do we know anything else about him, such as if he was affiliated with von Seeckt's military mission? If he was, why would he have been in the line of fire? How did Japan react (if at all)?	9

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