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Due to the enormous size of Russia, are there any villages / areas, was there ever instances of people unaware they lived in Russia?

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Why did the French nobles listen to the advice of an illiterate peasant teenage girl who said she received visions from God, and why was it that once Joan of Arc began campaigning with the French they started to win?

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I'm an Irish Catholic Monk living in Ireland in ca. 900AD. How much danger is my monastery really in of being raided by murderous Vikings?

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It's 1348, I'm a peasant in a major European city. How do I protect myself from getting the black death??

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If Ancient Irish people were never "Celtic" and thus modern day Irish people shouldn't really be identifying as "Celts", what should they identify as? What can we class Ancient Irish people as if not Celtic?

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How well could different Viking raiding parties understand each other?

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Did the Vikings differentiate between Britain and Ireland when raiding?

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What were obesity levels like in medieval cities?

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I'm an average illiterate European man in the Middle Ages, what do I do in my free time? Do I even have any?

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Japanese living in the US during WW2 were put into camps, but what happened to Americans living in Japan at the time?

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Due to the enormous size of Russia, are there any villages / areas, was there ever instances of people unaware they lived in Russia?	3933
Why did the French nobles listen to the advice of an illiterate peasant teenage girl who said she received visions from God, and why was it that once Joan of Arc began campaigning with the French they started to win?	3746
I'm an Irish Catholic Monk living in Ireland in ca. 900AD. How much danger is my monastery really in of being raided by murderous Vikings?	125
It's 1348, I'm a peasant in a major European city. How do I protect myself from getting the black death??	93
If Ancient Irish people were never "Celtic" and thus modern day Irish people shouldn't really be identifying as "Celts", what should they identify as? What can we class Ancient Irish people as if not Celtic?	41
How well could different Viking raiding parties understand each other?	36
Did the Vikings differentiate between Britain and Ireland when raiding?	36
What were obesity levels like in medieval cities?	35
I'm an average illiterate European man in the Middle Ages, what do I do in my free time? Do I even have any?	31
Japanese living in the US during WW2 were put into camps, but what happened to Americans living in Japan at the time?	30