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Do we know approximately how long it took to sail from Frisia/Saxony/Denmark to England in the Early Dark Ages? How about in the Viking Age? And through time to say, the Napoleonic Era, how many weeks would it take to make that same or a similar voyage?	30
How did prospective students enroll into university during the medieval period in Europe? What were their socio-economic backgrounds and familial origins, generally speaking?	30
Why and how did Lutheranism spread so vastly across the Nordic countries? What happened with Roman Catholicism after the Protestant Reformation in the Nordic nations?	30
It is known that during the Irish Famine the Ottomans sought to give a significantly greater amount than Queen Victoria had given in aid. Were political games being played here, or was this just simply to do with her reputation?	29
Why did the Anglo-Normans under the reign of Henry III conceive the so-called ‘Cult of St Edward’ - an Anglo-Saxon king of centuries prior?	29
Do we know why exactly the Romans dubbed Ireland as being 'Hibernia' - the land of winter? Were the Romans not aware of areas further north than that, such as today's Scotland or Denmark, by the time they named Ireland this? Is it because Irish summers are reminiscent of Italian winters?	27
How was (Roman) Catholicism treated under British rule between roughly 1700 up to WW2?	24
What is the origin and history of scalping among Native North American tribes? When did this practice first seem to start, and why was it so widespread across the continent?	24
With the plethora of monastic orders which emerged during the Middle Ages, what were the practices and beliefs that made them all different and distinct from one another?	22
What were the political relations of the United States and Imprerial France like from 1795 to 1815?	22

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