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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?
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In 1920, British author John Hargrave founded a camping and hiking group called the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift, which by 1932 had morphed into the Green Shirt Movement and then in 1935 into the Social Credit Party. How did a group of vaguely neo-pagan outdoorspeople end up going political?
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How long would a European monarch typically spend physically spend seated on their throne in, say, the 16th century?
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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?
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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?
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If your song was covered by The Beatles in the early 1960s, would you make much money? How did music copyright work around then?
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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?
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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?
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