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How do you feel/respond to criticism of your own published work?

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Were shields in the Medieval era really painted with the heraldric symbol of a lord the soldier belonged to?

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Why were Japanese war criminals not persecuted to the extent of German/Nazi war criminals?

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Is it true that modern English only exists because of the Battle of Hastings in 1066?

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Is it true that there were no Samaritans until 500-700 years after Moses is supposed to have existed ? The Quran states that Moses dealt with a Samaritan during his time.

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In Kirosawa’s “Yojimbo” a character is seen banging blocks together to announce that it is noon. Was this a common practice? If so how would he know it was noon? Was time standardized during this period?

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Did the the memory of the Holocaust and the discovery of concentration camps by Soviet soldiers leave a strong impression on Soviet culture over the years like it did in the West? Did it have an impact on anti-semitism in the USSR?

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In the 80’s what was the actual Satanist/ occult culture that the “Satanic Panic” was based on?

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Was the sense of divinity of the Emperor in Japan truly believed, or was this an idiom lost in translation? What about the topic of divine descent?

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Roman Historians -- In "Rome at War", Nathan Rosenstein argued with strong evidence that the theory in which after the Punic Wars, the soldier-farmer class were losing their farms to the rich whom erected slave-staffed plantations is wrong. However, Tom Holland states that theory as fact in Rubicon.

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How do you feel/respond to criticism of your own published work?	15
Were shields in the Medieval era really painted with the heraldric symbol of a lord the soldier belonged to?	15
Why were Japanese war criminals not persecuted to the extent of German/Nazi war criminals?	15
Is it true that modern English only exists because of the Battle of Hastings in 1066?	15
Is it true that there were no Samaritans until 500-700 years after Moses is supposed to have existed ? The Quran states that Moses dealt with a Samaritan during his time.	15
In Kirosawa’s “Yojimbo” a character is seen banging blocks together to announce that it is noon. Was this a common practice? If so how would he know it was noon? Was time standardized during this period?	15
Did the the memory of the Holocaust and the discovery of concentration camps by Soviet soldiers leave a strong impression on Soviet culture over the years like it did in the West? Did it have an impact on anti-semitism in the USSR?	15
In the 80’s what was the actual Satanist/ occult culture that the “Satanic Panic” was based on?	15
Was the sense of divinity of the Emperor in Japan truly believed, or was this an idiom lost in translation? What about the topic of divine descent?	15
Roman Historians -- In "Rome at War", Nathan Rosenstein argued with strong evidence that the theory in which after the Punic Wars, the soldier-farmer class were losing their farms to the rich whom erected slave-staffed plantations is wrong. However, Tom Holland states that theory as fact in Rubicon.	15