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Why was Albert Edward's affair with an actress such a concern for his parents Prince Albert and Queen Victoria?

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How is that the ideologically secular Baath party became associated with Shia Alawites in Syria and Sunni Arabs in Iraq?

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In the Middle Ages and Early Modern Era, if peasants were legally bound to their land, how did people manage to immigrate to cities or move?

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Did any country in the Americas ever consider joining the USA?

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In medieval Western Europe, were matrilineal marriages ever arranged to prevent the extinction of a dynasty?

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Did any Ottoman sultans ever use their role as Caliph in any significant political or religious way?

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How were Medieval populations distributed? Did everyone live in a village with fields surrounding it? Or did some people live on lone farms like the American Midwest?

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In Pakistan, many women are in the government, but mainly because they belong to political or landlord families. Does high-status/class women wielding power or influence have a history among subcontinent Muslims?

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When did local lords lose their political authority in England?

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Burgundy was a major European player from the early Middle Ages up until the early modern era when it was inherited by the Habsburgs. How much of this had to do with the actual region of Bourgogne? Was it especially populated or productive that made it prominent?

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Why was Albert Edward's affair with an actress such a concern for his parents Prince Albert and Queen Victoria?	42	AskHistorians
How is that the ideologically secular Baath party became associated with Shia Alawites in Syria and Sunni Arabs in Iraq?	42	AskHistorians
In the Middle Ages and Early Modern Era, if peasants were legally bound to their land, how did people manage to immigrate to cities or move?	38	AskHistorians
Did any country in the Americas ever consider joining the USA?	37	AskHistorians
In medieval Western Europe, were matrilineal marriages ever arranged to prevent the extinction of a dynasty?	37	AskHistorians
Did any Ottoman sultans ever use their role as Caliph in any significant political or religious way?	36	AskHistorians
How were Medieval populations distributed? Did everyone live in a village with fields surrounding it? Or did some people live on lone farms like the American Midwest?	35	AskHistorians
In Pakistan, many women are in the government, but mainly because they belong to political or landlord families. Does high-status/class women wielding power or influence have a history among subcontinent Muslims?	34	AskHistorians
When did local lords lose their political authority in England?	32	AskHistorians
Burgundy was a major European player from the early Middle Ages up until the early modern era when it was inherited by the Habsburgs. How much of this had to do with the actual region of Bourgogne? Was it especially populated or productive that made it prominent?	32	AskHistorians