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In Europe it was common for monarchs and popes to have regnal numbers (ex Louis the 18th), while in China and Japan they were hardly if ever used. Is there a specific reason these countries monarchs rarely used regnal numbers?	1137
During the Medieval period suits of armor were very valuable, often costing a small fortune to make. Given this information what were the customs for salvaging pieces of armor from dead knights after a battle was finished? How likely was it that a commoner could claim some pieces for themselves?	454
There is a large 45 year gap between the end of the American Civil War and the beginning of the Great Migration (1910s-1970s). Given the bad conditions for African-Americans in the American South why didn't they start migrating several decades sooner?	166
During the Great Depression were there any regions of the United States that were able to stay prosperous, or at the least remain unaffected by the worst of the downturn? In addition did any areas recover faster than the rest of the country?	129
It’s generally agreed that disease’s introduced by Europeans had a massive effect on the Native Americans. However several hundred years earlier the Vikings made contact with the Natives during their settlement attempts. Why didn’t any diseases transfer between these groups the way they did later?	69
When visual aids of the D-Day beaches are given, they often portray multiple lines of obstacles like hedgehogs, barbed wire, bunkers, and various mines on the beaches that look difficult to overcome in just a day. Were all the beaches this heavily fortified or is this exaggerated?	62
To what extant was the decision to bombard Fort Sumter made by the Confederate Government versus the commanders and authorities in South Carolina? How "thought out" was the decision to attack it to begin with given how much of an escalation in force it was?	27
During the Cold War what were the most important factions of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and what issues tended to divide them? Since elections among the population were controlled how did different the factions expand or protect their power?	16
When the America’s Founding Fathers were drafting the Constitution the early stages of the Industrial Revolution in Britain was occurring. How aware were they of these changes in the British economy and did they expect them to happen in America?	11
During the inter-war years between WWI and WWII a lot of changes in borders occurred. How quickly could mapmakers, either government employed or private, react and put out new maps that reflected the changes?	9

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