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It's common for Islamic scholars to make grandiose claims about the literary inconceivability and ingenuity of the Quran. Was the Quran revolutionary in a textual sense, and if so to what degree compared to other landmark works?

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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?

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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?

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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"?

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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?

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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?

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How did the US Secret Service, an organization created to investigate currency counterfeiting, become the personal guard of American Presidents?

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Why have eight of Japan's prime ministers been Christian despite so few (<1%) of the population belonging to this faith?

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Won't popular Blockchains reach a point where the computation for the next block is impractically large?

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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?

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It's common for Islamic scholars to make grandiose claims about the literary inconceivability and ingenuity of the Quran. Was the Quran revolutionary in a textual sense, and if so to what degree compared to other landmark works?	17	AskHistorians
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	AskHistorians
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	AskHistorians
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	AskHistorians
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	AskHistorians
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	AskHistorians
How did the US Secret Service, an organization created to investigate currency counterfeiting, become the personal guard of American Presidents?	9	AskHistorians
Why have eight of Japan's prime ministers been Christian despite so few (<1%) of the population belonging to this faith?	9	AskHistorians
Won't popular Blockchains reach a point where the computation for the next block is impractically large?	8	askscience
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	AskHistorians