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The chi-rho Christogram (☧) appears regularly in Late Roman imagery, especially, it seems, on shields, but why? How did this symbol become so popular, and when and why did it die out?	6	AskHistorians
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?	5	AskHistorians
One of the narratives I got about (the British experience on the Western Front of) the First World War at school was that the rum ration given to soldiers was a critical part of the war effort, as one would have to be somewhat tipsy to even contemplate going 'over the top'. How much of this is true?	5	AskHistorians
When did the Cannon piece become part of Chinese Chess (a.k.a. xiangqi), given that its earliest incarnations predated gunpowder? Do we know what it was like beforehand? Is it possible to tell how quickly the new piece caught on?	5	AskHistorians
Why did U.S. Treasury regulation 'prohibit the importation into the U.S. of any merchandise originating in China or North Korea' in the 1950s, and when did these regulations cease to apply?	5	AskHistorians
In the Hornblower adaptation 'The Frogs and the Lobsters', the naval officer Hornblower is largely antagonistic towards aristocratic army officers and is jokingly accused of Republican sympathies. Did the Royal Navy's relative egalitarianism lead to any real affection for republicanism?	5	AskHistorians
How much of a threat to Rome was Carthage at the time of the Second Punic War? Did the Romans play up the threat posed by the Carthaginians in order to make their success seem more impressive?	5	AskHistorians
While the modern consensus is that the Kamakura Shogunate was founded in 1185, it seems like there have been a number of alternate dates proposed such as 1183 and 1192. What basis has been given for these various dates, and why has 1185 won out?	5	AskHistorians
The chi-rho Christogram (☧) appeared regularly in Late Roman imagery, especially, it seems, on shields, but why? How did this symbol become so popular, and when and why did it die out?	5	AskHistorians
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?	5	AskHistorians

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