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Did the Achaemenid Empire actually ban slavery?	23
Southern Italy was majority-Greek in antiquity, then more than a thousand years later was still majority-Greek under the Byzantines. Was there no attempt at Latinisation in these territories during the Republic/Principate period?	23
In The Sopranos, the New Jersey Mafia is referred to as a "pygmy outfit" by the New York mobsters. Historically was the Mafia in New Jersey always "nothing more than a glorified crew" when compared to the other families?	21
Grace O'Malley is a well-known figure in Irish history, but were there many other notorious Irish pirates during the same period?	19
Was Dublin always seen as the de facto capital of Ireland, even prior to the Norman invasion in 1169?	19
What is the current scholarly consensus on the Battle of Clontarf? Did it actually break Norse power in Ireland forever, or was it just a civil war between competing Irish factions?	18
The Oasis song "Wonderwall" has become a bit of a cliche. People at gigs often shout "Play Wonderwall!" at the artist, and "So anyway, here's Wonderwall" is a common joke amongst guitarists. How exactly did the song become so embedded in popular culture in a way very few other songs of that era did?	17
In Richard Kee's "The Green Flag", he considers the concepts of "Irishness" and Irish nationalim as products of the Enlightenment and the 1798 Rebellion. Was there really no sense of Irish national identity prior to this?	15
Were there any serious attempts by European pagans during the Middle Ages to organise and codify their religions in the face of Christian encroachment?	13
In 1900, a monument to the 1798 Rebellion was erected in Thurles, Ireland. What was the reaction of the British authorities to the erection of monuments celebrating a bloody rebellion against their rule, particularly at a time when Irish nationalist sentiment was running high?	11

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