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How can a state governor send their National Guard units into other administrative districts?

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Were taiko drums used to determine village sizes?

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Are British Prime Ministers forbidden from cycling?

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What was the source of "presidium" as used by the Soviets?

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Are there recorded incidents of the Gentlemen Pensioners protecting the monarch in the 16th century?

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How did the Hansa organize river trade in the 14th and 15th centuries?

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How did (riverine) toll castles operate?

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Was the scene depicting a Commons vote won by 3/4 of a vote real in "This House"?

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What did the Baltic Fleet do in Reval in 1904 and when was it there?

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What were the Lines of Ne Plus Ultra in the War of the Spanish Succession?

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Why were slave owners even offered compensation via the 1837 Act if they'd lost the power in parliament to stop abolition in 1833?
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Are there historical texts in England querying where Roman structures came from?
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How did the Bolsheviks fund their government?
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What are the hay effigies in this Japanese movie?
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Who said: "Armies prepare to fight their last war, rather than their next war"?
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Why did Peter the Great change his daughters' title to Tsesarevna?
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When the Portuguese began the exploration of the West African Coast, did they believe the Indian Ocean was an enclosed sea?
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Did the Seljuk consider themselves Roman?
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Were there any long-term political effects on Argentina after Eichmann's kidnapping?
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Did Biden underperform the polls because some voters changed their minds after being polled?
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Why was Poland subject to much harsher Russification than Finland was?
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Why didn't pre-Norman English kings build stone town walls?
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Was there a European country that held a referendum about adopting English in universities?
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Who or what were the Nassadista?
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When was the first intentional ricochet fired from a naval artillery?
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What did the Japanese military do to maintain their fighting edge during the Edo era/Bakufu (1603-1868)?
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What was the military makeup of the Baltic tribes/Lithuania from 1200 to 1500 AD?
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How to build historical maps?
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How did the dwarves possibly "dig out" gigantic hallways in the mountains to create Moria with such "primitive" technology?
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Why are there so few Iberian mathematicians in history?
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Why hasn't the UK penalized a Commonwealth Realm for supporting China's National Security Law on Hong Kong?
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Why was Austria given the best chunk in the First Partition of Poland, even while protesting it?
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Is there any historical evidence that Sultan Mehmed II bought the Hagia Sophia?
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Why did Churchill become the PM of Britain during WWII instead of Lord Halifax?
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Was the Kingdom of Nri truly pacifistic?
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Did horse sacrifice persist in Christian Europe?
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Was the Great Freeze of 1709 predicted?
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What was the aftermath of a battle in the Middle Ages? How did wounded soldiers proceed?
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What evidence do we have to claim the Ancient Romans kept African grey parrots as pets?
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Why wasn't England/Britain officially an empire (as a form of monarchy)?
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