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Before their entry into WW2, did the USA make efforts to gain first hand military experience by shadowing allied armies?

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Britain stopped celebrating Trafalgar Day and the anniversary of Waterloo because it felt it hampered French relations. Why does the USA still celebrate its independence on such scale?

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In the movie 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' we see the British and their Turkish allies marching to the Alma, while marching their bands are playing. Was it common to walk large distances while these bands were playing, would they not tire quickly?

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France has the Arc De Triomphe, Italy has Victor Emmanuel II monument, is there any particular reason why the UK (even during the height of its empire) never constructed large nationalistic buildings?

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The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy in which the reigning monarch does not make any open political decisions but have their been any examples in the last 150 years of a monarch disagreeing with a political decision, and if so what action did they take?

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What are the benefits of teaching kids about the slave trade?

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Before their entry into WW2, did the USA make efforts to gain first hand military experience by shadowing allied armies?	3
Britain stopped celebrating Trafalgar Day and the anniversary of Waterloo because it felt it hampered French relations. Why does the USA still celebrate its independence on such scale?	2
In the movie 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' we see the British and their Turkish allies marching to the Alma, while marching their bands are playing. Was it common to walk large distances while these bands were playing, would they not tire quickly?	2
France has the Arc De Triomphe, Italy has Victor Emmanuel II monument, is there any particular reason why the UK (even during the height of its empire) never constructed large nationalistic buildings?	1
The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy in which the reigning monarch does not make any open political decisions but have their been any examples in the last 150 years of a monarch disagreeing with a political decision, and if so what action did they take?	1
What are the benefits of teaching kids about the slave trade?	0