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1980s How did hair metal become so predominant in the popular music of the late 1980s?

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In the build-up to WWI, was Germany's desire for war stronger than everyone else's? Or were France, Russia, and others, itching for a fight just the same?

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How accurate is the "civil war" narrative of World War II that many hold to in Italy?

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Did Oscar Wilde speak with an Irish lilt, or did he sound like an Englishman?

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During the Middle Ages in Europe, did the Church (or at least Christianity itself) enjoy unchallenged ideological hegemony over virtually everyone?

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If, say, a princess from Catholic Austria converted to Russian Orthodoxy in order to become Tsarina, didn't that mean she was hellbound?

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Did royalty/aristocracy have a harder time justifying itself in light of the rising secularism of the mid-late nineteenth century?

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The Nazis wanted to colonize a depopulated East. They didn't have the numbers, but were they working on it?

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As historians, how would you respond to the assertion that Partisan resistance fighters were "just as bad" as the Nazis and Fascists?

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Between, let's say, the Georgian and the Edwardian eras, was the highest aspiration of an English gentleman to go around outdoors all day shooting at birds?

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1980s How did hair metal become so predominant in the popular music of the late 1980s?	30
In the build-up to WWI, was Germany's desire for war stronger than everyone else's? Or were France, Russia, and others, itching for a fight just the same?	22
How accurate is the "civil war" narrative of World War II that many hold to in Italy?	22
Did Oscar Wilde speak with an Irish lilt, or did he sound like an Englishman?	18
During the Middle Ages in Europe, did the Church (or at least Christianity itself) enjoy unchallenged ideological hegemony over virtually everyone?	13
If, say, a princess from Catholic Austria converted to Russian Orthodoxy in order to become Tsarina, didn't that mean she was hellbound?	12
Did royalty/aristocracy have a harder time justifying itself in light of the rising secularism of the mid-late nineteenth century?	11
The Nazis wanted to colonize a depopulated East. They didn't have the numbers, but were they working on it?	10
As historians, how would you respond to the assertion that Partisan resistance fighters were "just as bad" as the Nazis and Fascists?	10
Between, let's say, the Georgian and the Edwardian eras, was the highest aspiration of an English gentleman to go around outdoors all day shooting at birds?	9