A Red Cross worker in the United States, 1918

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German bomber insurance

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Burst bubble

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Viking

Tiw’s company

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Remembered in wax

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Queen’s Corporal

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Tudor

Winter defeats scurvy

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Vicious murder

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Too good for the gallery

Victorian

Why were people who died by suicide historically buried at crossroads?

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17th-century Ranter

Chair used for the last execution at the Tower of London, c1940. Wooden chair on which the German Corporal Josef Jakobs was seated when he was shot as a spy in the Tower of London in August 1941. Two of the spindles have been shot away and the frame broken by bullets. Jakobs, who was seated due to an injured leg, was the last person to be executed at the Tower of London. (Credit: The Board of Trustees of the Armouries / HIP / TopFoto)

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Cornish invention

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How far could a person expect to travel in a single day on horseback or in a stagecoach?

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The Eidophusikon

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Philospher and scholar

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What are the origins of saluting?

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British and Maori conflicts

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First World War shells

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Magna Carta

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A monument to Nicolaus Copernicus in Poland.

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Knights Templar: not guilty

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Battle numbers

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French celebrity

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