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Mikhail Gorbachev famously agreed to do a Pizza Hut commercial in 1997. Was Pizza Hut remotely affordable to Russia's working class families at that time?	318
Segregation in 20th century Northern Ireland and the Jim Crow South have popularly been compared with such countries as South Africa and Rhodesia. How fair is this assessment?	12
In historical fiction set during the Viking Age, Anglo-Saxons from various kingdoms are often simply called "Saxons" regardless of location, ancestry and century. Would your average Angle from Eoforwic (e.g. post-St. Brice's Day massacre) accept such a reductive ethnonym?	12
How mobile was feudal infantry in 15th century England?	9
In November 1941, the FBI arrested five Japanese nationals for entering Pearl Harbor with forged ID cards. What was the extent of Japanese spying in Hawaii in the lead-up to the Pearl Harbor attack?	8
How reasonable is the idea that the Mexica were so dangerous in Mesoamerica that a Spanish-native alliance against them was necessary?	6
Do Early Modern Historians consider the Gunpowder Plot a terrorist plot, or does that label betray the significance of the Catesby uprising plot?	3
Was there an official name for the short-lived Danish kingdom in Medieval Britain? If so, was it the Kingdom of York/Jørvik, a rival "Kingdom of Northumbria", or just the Danelaw?	3
Enoch Powell was Tory candidate for my town in 1947. Did British law at the time require him to live there?	2
Many British colonies in the 18th and 19th centuries were administrated by private companies backed by private troops. How did the empire transition from this oligarchic form to one more directly controlled by Parliament?	2

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