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One of my old history professors claimed that some prominent Florentines felt slighted that Dante didn't think they were important enough to be included in his vision of hell. Is that true?	19
When did European kings begin studying at universities?	18
As it's known today that Ancient Greek and Roman buildings and art were actually quite colorful, I'm curious, were Medieval castles really as gray and austere-looking as they appear today? If not, where can I find a graphic reconstruction of how a castle would have looked when it was new?	18
Is it true that German knights continued their crusades in the Baltic well after the Baltic peoples became Christian?	18
Did anyone speak Hebrew as a native, everyday language between Biblical times and Eliezer Ben‑Yehuda's raising his son Itamar Ben-Avi (born in 1882) to speak only Hebrew?	18
What were the Finns doing during the Viking age? What kind of contact did they have with their Nordic neighbors?	18
How common was pony ownership among rural Polish Jews in the early to mid twentieth century? (Question inspired by the Seinfeld episode "The Pony Remark," where Jerry puts his foot (hoof?) in his mouth by expressing his hatred of kids who had ponies, which offends his elderly Polish-born relative)	18
What are some of the main things that late-18th and early-19th c. English Gothic novels get wrong about the Middle Ages?	18
Well known is the pan-European influence of Shakespeare from the 18th c. onward. Was Chaucer known or respected outside Britain before the 19th c.? (Attempt 2)	17
Thinking of Scarlett O'Hara, I must ask, wouldn't the probability of family of the Southern plantation-owning aristocracy bearing that surname (and the Irish Catholic origins it betrays) have been almost zero?	17

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