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Are Hadiths unique among archival studies? Do we have comparable cases of people recording, and later fabricating the smallest sayings of a single figure like Muhammad? How does historical analysis of the early Islamic Empire and Muhammad as an individual differ from other fields because of this?	17
How long did it take after Socrates' death for him to go from an atheistic upstart who needed to die to an intellectual patriarch and great citizen of the polis in the athenian consciousness?	17
Why is the western day marked from the middle of the night? Is this universal, or was beginning the day with the normal time of sunrise more common, historically?	14
Were the dialogues of Plato mostly whole-cloth inventions for the sake of philosophical exploration, or would some Athenians have read accounts of the discussions and said "yes, I remember when Thrasymachus made that point to Polemarchus"?	13
Was there any dissent or action by Catholic recusants in Northern England or among the aristocracy after the Anglican invasion and subjugation of Ireland began?	11
How did mesoamerican people take to Catholicism in the short decades following contact with Spain? What interactions and associations did observants of the Aztec pantheon have to the crucified Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and the monotheistic God?	10
Why have eight of Japan's prime ministers been Christian despite so few (<1%) of the population belonging to this faith?	9
How did the US Secret Service, an organization created to investigate currency counterfeiting, become the personal guard of American Presidents?	9
If I was active in church life in the HRE around 1512, would I have a sense that something was "going to happen" like a European in 1910, or was the reformation (at least in its scale) not largely expected?	7
Did Hannibal, or any prominent member of the Barca family, sacrifice their child to Moloch?	7

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