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The "Coena Cypriani" is what we might call "a bible parody" or a "bible fan fiction" that was made by a monk who believed in the Bible and intended to help young monks learn about it, is there a comparable work in islam?

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During the early Middle Ages, why was Wales so fragmented?

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We know that ritual suicide was more or less common in Japan among the warrior class. Was it common among regular people?

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How rich was Ignacio I. Madero?

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It is reported that Ada Lovelace was the first programmer, and that the first program was an algorithm to calculate Bernoulli numbers, isn't that too complex to be the first program ever written?

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What was stopping Romans from making plate armor like in the Middle Ages?

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Was it common for people who surrendered to still be killed or sold as slaves?

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How did Amharic ended up with a syllabary when all other semitic languages use abjads?

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When did people discover that we could hypnotize chickens? And what did they think about it?

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Is it true that people believed that "Vril, the power of the coming race" was a true story?

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The "Coena Cypriani" is what we might call "a bible parody" or a "bible fan fiction" that was made by a monk who believed in the Bible and intended to help young monks learn about it, is there a comparable work in islam?	6
During the early Middle Ages, why was Wales so fragmented?	6
We know that ritual suicide was more or less common in Japan among the warrior class. Was it common among regular people?	6
How rich was Ignacio I. Madero?	6
It is reported that Ada Lovelace was the first programmer, and that the first program was an algorithm to calculate Bernoulli numbers, isn't that too complex to be the first program ever written?	6
What was stopping Romans from making plate armor like in the Middle Ages?	5
Was it common for people who surrendered to still be killed or sold as slaves?	5
How did Amharic ended up with a syllabary when all other semitic languages use abjads?	5
When did people discover that we could hypnotize chickens? And what did they think about it?	5
Is it true that people believed that "Vril, the power of the coming race" was a true story?	5