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The First World War was labelled 'the war to end all wars'. Did anyone take this literally and think that this was a realistic expectation in the aftermath of four years of war?
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Given that versions of football have been played for centuries, why did it take so long for football teams as we know them today to be formed?
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Why was rugby and cricket successfully exported to wide parts of the British Empire, but not football, the sport the most popular of all in the mainland?
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The rise in the price of Cadbury's Freddos chocolate bars is a popular online analogy used to point to inflation in the British economy. Does this kind of meme have any historical equivalents?
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Did the communist government of Czechoslovakia ever seek to profit from the betrayal of France and the United Kingdom at the Munich Conference in its Cold War propaganda?
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How common in European nations in the past would it be for grand, illustrious funerals? Who would be given one?
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When it is colder in the winter, why does smoke (i.e. from chimneys) or one's breath seem thicker when looking at it than it would in warmer temperatures?
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