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Did the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom seek recognition as a separate nation from Qing China? Did it try to gain foreign recognition?	3
Watching the film about the Peterloo massacre, I have to wonder what was American tension like before the vote was extended to all white males over 21? Was there an entrenched interest in keeping them out?	3
Reading about some of the grand Allied offensives of Joffre and Haig on the Western Front during WWI, I'm struck by how the infantry breakthrough would be followed by a massive cavalry sweep to exploit it, which did not work. Did cavalry use make strategic sense, or was high command naive?	3
There is a currently an int'l row between Poland and Russia over the guilt of the USSR in starting WWII. Should they share equal blame with Nazi Germany for signing the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, or is it as Putin says, the West and Poland is at fault for appeasing Hitler up till then?	3
The USA in the 19th century appears to have coveted islands in the Caribbean (especially Cuba). What measures did the islands and Europe make to ensure the islands would not end up with the USA? (If it even was a concern).	3
Why did the House of Representatives launch their own investigation into the Kennedy assassination? Why did their conclusion differ substantively from the Warren Report? Was there a follow-up?	3
What kind of punishment was expected for breaking a treaty for nations in the 17th - 19th centuries?	3
Pop music question: In the era of big bands, what was it that allowed singers like Bing Crosby or Billie Holiday to be billed ahead of the orchestra?	3
Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The May-Pole of Merry Mount" is about a maypole celebration in 17th century Massachusetts that gets rudely interrupted and ended by John Endicott and his Puritans. What do we know about the people of Merry Mount at this time? Were maypoles to be found elsewhere in the colonies	3
Marcus Garvey was subject to a public campaign to remove him from America by other Black groups after he met with the KKK. Black leaders asked the US gov't to prosecute Garvey for mail fraud and violence from his followers. Yet his legacy is a positive one, likened to Malcolm X. Why is that?	3

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