History Quiz #904
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Q1. Which of the discoveries made by the 17th and 18th century British navigator and explorer William Dampier was of particular help to Captain James Cook and Horatio Nelson?
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Q2. What right of a defendant was last used in "Ashford v Thornton", an 1818 English legal case that was a private appeal from an acquittal for murder?
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Q3. Around the beginning of the 17th century, the first what were circulated in the West?
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Q4. The "canary girls" in Britain worked during what period?
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Q5. Which establishment owes much to the offer by Sir Hans Sloane in 1758 for England to purchase his collections?
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Q6. From 752 BCE to 664 BCE the Kings of Kush in Nubia, ruled over what other area as well?
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Q7. The phrase "beyond the pale" refers to the history of which country?
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