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What were some factors that led to the unorthodox lifestyle of Buddhist monks and nuns at Dunhuang? (E.g., consumption of meat and alcohol, living away from the monastery, owning property, etc.)
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Where did medieval noble houses come from? How did they typically raise their social status from nobody to nobility?
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In Spielberg's "Lincoln", members of the US House of Representatives (in particular Thaddeus Stevens) hurl insults and personal attacks at each other frequently while in debate. How historically accurate is this?
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What do professional historians think of Larry Siedentop's "Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism?"
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Is the movie Hidden Figures giving proper, not enough, or undue weight to the role of these black women in the early NASA programs?
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