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July 1986

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  1. 1st July 1986What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  2. 2nd July 1986Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  3. 3rd July 1986What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  4. 4th July 1986Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  5. 5th July 1986Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  6. 6th July 1986What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  7. 7th July 1986Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  8. 8th July 1986How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  9. 9th July 1986Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  10. 10th July 1986What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  11. 11th July 1986Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  12. 12th July 1986In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  13. 13th July 1986Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  14. 14th July 1986What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  15. 15th July 1986In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  16. 16th July 1986What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  17. 17th July 1986In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  18. 18th July 1986What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
  19. 19th July 1986In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  20. 20th July 1986Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  21. 21st July 1986In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
  22. 22nd July 1986What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
  23. 23rd July 1986Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  24. 24th July 1986In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  25. 25th July 1986Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  26. 26th July 1986On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
  27. 27th July 1986Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
  28. 28th July 1986Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  29. 29th July 1986Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  30. 30th July 1986Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  31. 31st July 1986In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?