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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
On the 14th October 1956, Indian politician B. R. Ambedkar and half a million of his supporters converted to Buddhism on masse, beginning the Dalit Buddhist movement. How seriously did contemporaries view this act and what social implications did it have for those that took part?	5
In a 1920 interview with Vladimir Lenin, M. Nakahira, correspondent of the Japanese Newspaper Osaka Asahi informed him that corporal punishment had been largely phased out of Japanese culture. Was this actually true?	4
Mike Duncan’s history of Rome describes Caracalla’s purge of Geta’s supporters and their families as being of unprecedented size and brutality. Do we really know enough about it to say that?	4
The Trudovik party seems to have played a major role in pre-Bolshevik Russian politics. They won the most seats in the Second Duma and the Trudovik Kerensky was the last Prime Minster of Russia. Why then did they collapse so quickly that many sources barely mention them?	3
The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw waves of emigrants from Japan to South America, particularly Brazil . How did the Shinto-Buddhist religious identities of these migrants change outside of the context of Japan when confronted with the hegemonic Catholicism of the continent?	3
The Trudovik party seems to have played a major role in pre-Bolshevik Russian politics. They won the most seats in the Second Duma and the Trudovik Kerensky was the last Prime Minster of Russia. Why then did they collapse so quickly that many sources barely mention them?	2
The Tang era Confucian scholar-poet Du Fu wrote many poems about his relationship with the exiled Buddhist Abbot Zan. Would such a relationship be considered seemly by his contemporaries? Would Du Fu have considered himself a “Buddhist” in a meaningful sense?	2
How did senior ecclesiastical figures in France react to the Franco-Ottoman alliance?	1
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?	1

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