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According to his biographer, John Ruskin refused to sleep with his wife and eventually sought an annulment because his discovery that she (and other women) have pubic hair was so repulsive to him, was it normal for an educated Victorian man like him to be so ignorant of female anatomy?

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Was the 100 years war a conflict about whether the King of England should rule parts of France, or whether the King of England was the King of France?

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By the time of the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, the Emperor was a de facto figurehead who only exerted actual power in his capacity as Archduke of Austria, King of Bohemia, King of Hungary, Duke of Milan etc. but what de jure powers did he retain?

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When Rome became Christian, how did the Empire cope with the idea that it was a Roman governor acting on the authority of the Emperor that had God tortured and killed?

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In JB Bury’s History of the Later Roman Empire: From the Death of Theodosius I to the Death of Justinian, it says that the role and powers of the Senate increased during the reigns of Odovacer and Theodoric. What was their role?

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What do historians think about the Twelfth Imam of Shia Islam during the so called Minor Occultation of 874 to 941, was he alive and communicating through envoys, or dead for all or part of that period?

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The Abbasid revolution was partly instigated by the policies of the Umayyad Caliphate which put Arabs over all other Muslims, so why did al-Andalus with its mostly non-Arab population welcome an Umayyad as Emir instead of supporting the Abbasids?

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According to his biographer, John Ruskin refused to sleep with his wife and eventually sought an annulment because his discovery that she (and other women) have pubic hair was so repulsive to him, was it normal for an educated Victorian man like him to be so ignorant of female anatomy?	3602
Was the 100 years war a conflict about whether the King of England should rule parts of France, or whether the King of England was the King of France?	230
By the time of the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, the Emperor was a de facto figurehead who only exerted actual power in his capacity as Archduke of Austria, King of Bohemia, King of Hungary, Duke of Milan etc. but what de jure powers did he retain?	43
When Rome became Christian, how did the Empire cope with the idea that it was a Roman governor acting on the authority of the Emperor that had God tortured and killed?	39
In JB Bury’s History of the Later Roman Empire: From the Death of Theodosius I to the Death of Justinian, it says that the role and powers of the Senate increased during the reigns of Odovacer and Theodoric. What was their role?	29
What do historians think about the Twelfth Imam of Shia Islam during the so called Minor Occultation of 874 to 941, was he alive and communicating through envoys, or dead for all or part of that period?	20
The Abbasid revolution was partly instigated by the policies of the Umayyad Caliphate which put Arabs over all other Muslims, so why did al-Andalus with its mostly non-Arab population welcome an Umayyad as Emir instead of supporting the Abbasids?	12