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In The Iliad and The Odyssey, when describing feasts, Homer routinely says something like "no man went without his fair share". Why was it important to the Greeks to emphasise this?	207
Edward, Prince of Wales, late King Edward VIII, received the Military Cross in the First World War. However, Lord Kitchener explicitly forbade him from serving on the front lines. Did the heir to the throne actually have an opportunity to show "exemplary gallantry during active operations"?	170
Of the top twenty tallest statues in the world, eighteen of them are of Buddhist figures. What prompted Buddhist peoples to produce such vast statues?	165
In GOT/ASOIAF, Robert Baratheon frequents prostitutes even after becoming King. Could a Western European monarch in the High Middle Ages do this?	147
Why did the Green movement end up so opposed to nuclear energy?	115
How did the other great powers of Europe react when Benjamin Disraeli, an ethnically Jewish man, became British Prime Minister?	90
The Soviet Army violently suppressed the Hungarian Revolution in 1956 and the Prague Spring in 1968. What did the common Soviet soldier think about having to fight his fraternal socialist comrades?	83
The career of British Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe was destroyed by allegations that he had conspired to murder his former lover Norman Scott, but he was acquitted at trial. Over forty years later, is there a historical consensus on what actually happened in the Thorpe Affair?	81
"House of Gucci" depicts Aldo Gucci as deliberately selling fake Gucci products on the black market. Is this a fair depiction of the company in the 1980s?	80
With the recent passing of Michael Collins, what considerations were given to selecting the man who would NOT go down to the Moon?	78

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