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Did monotheism only develop in the ancient Near East (Akhenaten, Zoroaster, Judaism, etcetera), or have there been other instances of it in other parts of the world?	9
How did the Ancient Egyptians use the restroom, and how was waste disposed of in villages and urban centers?	8
Why and when did primogeniture become the most-popular system for succession in monarchies over other systems?	8
Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria and son of Emperor Franz Joseph I and Elisabeth of Bavaria, was found dead of an apparent murder-suicide pact with his lover in 1889. How did the scandal of the Crown Prince’s death impact the nation and the royal family at the time?	8
How true is the maxim that the vast majority of famines that have occurred since the beginning of the Modern Era have been human-caused (due to war, mismanagement, corruption, etcetera) from a historical perspective?	8
Did pre-modern societies understand that sun exposure was dangerous and detrimental to one’s health?	8
Have any firsthand written accounts from survivors of the eruption of Vesuvius from Pompeii and Herculaneum in 79 A.D. been discovered?	8
Question about historiography: what is the difference between approaching the past from a women’s or gender history perspective versus approaching it from a feminist history perspective?	8
What are the origins of outsider, folk and naïve art, and what led the art establishment to study or value art by unconventional, unprofessional or unschooled artists? Was acceptance and inclusion of these kinds of artists controversial amongst the arbiters and pundits of the art world at the time?	8
In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality as a diagnosis from the second edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM); as a queer person living in America at the time, what, if anything at all, changes for me and the day to day lives of my community?	8

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