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The Icelandic Sagas are set during the Viking Age but believed to have been written in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. In the stories, monsters, ghosts and magic are treated as fact. Was this a true, typical belief of educated people of that period?

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WW2: Did the Allies really abandon plans to assassinate Hitler, in order to let his incompetence continue to hurt the Third Reich?

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The Viking Age: What kind of ships were in use by the people the Vikings mostly preyed upon?

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Did the average Roman have it significantly better than an average Germanic tribesman?

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Was there ever anything that we would classify as Satanism before the 20th Century?

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Medieval Europe: A major battle has just concluded. Now what happens to all the weapons and armour left by the losing army?

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How did the Gothic tribes go from being refugees abused by the Roman Empire, to being a military power that could defeat Rome and conquer territory?

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Did Ancient Rome have street names and house numbers? If so, how did the system work?

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In 1836, Edgar Allan Poe married his 13 year old first cousin. What did American society think of such a thing at the time?

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Is it true that warfare in East Asia was far more marked by mass-slaughter and genocide than European warfare?

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The Icelandic Sagas are set during the Viking Age but believed to have been written in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. In the stories, monsters, ghosts and magic are treated as fact. Was this a true, typical belief of educated people of that period?	12
WW2: Did the Allies really abandon plans to assassinate Hitler, in order to let his incompetence continue to hurt the Third Reich?	12
The Viking Age: What kind of ships were in use by the people the Vikings mostly preyed upon?	12
Did the average Roman have it significantly better than an average Germanic tribesman?	12
Was there ever anything that we would classify as Satanism before the 20th Century?	12
Medieval Europe: A major battle has just concluded. Now what happens to all the weapons and armour left by the losing army?	11
How did the Gothic tribes go from being refugees abused by the Roman Empire, to being a military power that could defeat Rome and conquer territory?	11
Did Ancient Rome have street names and house numbers? If so, how did the system work?	11
In 1836, Edgar Allan Poe married his 13 year old first cousin. What did American society think of such a thing at the time?	10
Is it true that warfare in East Asia was far more marked by mass-slaughter and genocide than European warfare?	10