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Why are almost all long-term extramarital sexual partners of significant Western figures called mistresses while non-Western figures have concubines? NSFW	948
What kind of lifestyle would a Prince-Bishop or Prince-Abbot of the Holy Roman Empire around the year 1300 enjoy? How much time would be spent on religious affairs compared to secular and what kind of pleasures would be considered acceptable?	11
What kind of lifestyle would a Prince-Bishop or Prince-Abbot of the Holy Roman Empire around the year 1300 enjoy? How much time would be spent on religious affairs compared to secular and what kind of pleasures would be considered acceptable?	11
Were there really gangs of young men in 19th century Japan who went around hunting pretty boys and assaulting them or was this just an excuse to attack homosexuals with the Keikan Code?	8
Did 'Bishōnen' gangs in 19th century Japan really exist?	7
What kind of lifestyle would a Prince-Bishop or Prince-Abbot of the Holy Roman Empire around the year 1300 enjoy? How much time would be spent on religious affairs compared to secular and what kind of pleasures would be considered acceptable?	5
Did the Ikko Ikki, both in Kaga and otherwise, actually practice communalism/land redistribution?	5
Do historians still agree that there was such a thing as an 'Age of Martyrdom' in the Roman empire?	2
The theocracy formed by the 'Celestial Masters' branch of Taoism had an extremely lenient law code. Did their attitude towards crime and punishment have any effect on later Chinese states?	2
Do historians of Ancient Greece still see Oliganthropia as a major cause of the decline of the Spartans and have there been any major changes in the perception of population control in ancient Greece?	2

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