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In 820, the Byzantine Emperor Leo V planned to execute his general Michael by chaining him to an ape and throwing them into a furnace. Besides how he came up with this strange idea, were outlandish execution methods like these common in the Byzantine Empire?	173
In 1069/70, Gytha of Wessex, daughter of the last Anglo-Saxon King of England, Harold Godwinson, married Vladimir II, Grand Prince of Kievan Rus. How did two seemingly distant kingdoms end up in contact with one another? Did both have any prior interactions?	96
Executive Order 9066 ordered for the incarceration of Japanese, German, and Italian Americans. Did the US government ever have any plans to incarcerate Hungarian, Romanian, or Bulgarian Americans? If not, were there any notable instances of persecution against these groups?	7
Did the Khazars contribute in any way to the development of Kyiv?	6
Agatha, the mother of Edgar Atheling, has bemused historians and genealogists since the 12th century. What is to blame for the vagueness on sources about her?	3
Outside of marriage, what roles could the daughters of the Grand Prince of Kievan Rus play?	2
Prior to his marriage with Anna in 1051, how did Henry I of France end up in contact with Yaroslav?	2
The rump states of Morea, Trebizond, and Epirus managed to survive for years after the fall of Constantinople. Why did the Ottomans wait so long to conquer them?	1
According to the Rus Chronicle’s, Kyiv was said to have been founded by a Prince or Ferryman named Kyi. Is there any evidence suggesting he was a real person?	1

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