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January 1959 5-a-day

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January 1959

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  1. 1st January 1959Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  2. 2nd January 1959What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  3. 3rd January 1959Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  4. 4th January 1959When did Germany formally reunify?
  5. 5th January 1959What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
  6. 6th January 1959Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  7. 7th January 1959What was the Privy Council?
  8. 8th January 1959What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  9. 9th January 1959Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  10. 10th January 1959Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  11. 11th January 1959Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  12. 12th January 1959What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  13. 13th January 1959In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  14. 14th January 1959What was a Gauleiter?
  15. 15th January 1959What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  16. 16th January 1959What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  17. 17th January 1959What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  18. 18th January 1959What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  19. 19th January 1959On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  20. 20th January 1959What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  21. 21st January 1959Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  22. 22nd January 1959Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  23. 23rd January 1959What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  24. 24th January 1959What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  25. 25th January 1959Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  26. 26th January 1959What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  27. 27th January 1959Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  28. 28th January 1959Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  29. 29th January 1959In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  30. 30th January 1959By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  31. 31st January 1959What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?