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What is the current opinion of Nero?

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In the BBC and Netflix's pseudo-historical drama, The Last Kingdom, a Northumbrean noble is taken as a slave for a Danish Earl and later adopted was the adoption of slaves a practice by Danish Vikings or is it purely an invention of the writers?

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Would a monastic order have accepted a man who had children in medieval Europe?

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How accurate is the statement that "there was not one French revolution, but many revolutions?"

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According to the insert in Queen's Greatest Hits "I Want it All" became an anti-apartheid anthem among Black South-African youth. Is this true? If so how did that come about and what was the reception of the 3/4 White British Queen among Black youth?

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How Zoroastrian was the Achaemenid Empire?

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Are there any Greco-Roman pagan accounts of the persecution of pagans during and after Theodosius' reign?

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Were the Palas of Śudra origin?

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Why did the Republic of Macedonia choose that name?

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Why did the Ramayana become so widespread?

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What is the current opinion of Nero?	17
In the BBC and Netflix's pseudo-historical drama, The Last Kingdom, a Northumbrean noble is taken as a slave for a Danish Earl and later adopted was the adoption of slaves a practice by Danish Vikings or is it purely an invention of the writers?	16
Would a monastic order have accepted a man who had children in medieval Europe?	15
How accurate is the statement that "there was not one French revolution, but many revolutions?"	14
According to the insert in Queen's Greatest Hits "I Want it All" became an anti-apartheid anthem among Black South-African youth. Is this true? If so how did that come about and what was the reception of the 3/4 White British Queen among Black youth?	12
How Zoroastrian was the Achaemenid Empire?	12
Are there any Greco-Roman pagan accounts of the persecution of pagans during and after Theodosius' reign?	7
Were the Palas of Śudra origin?	6
Why did the Republic of Macedonia choose that name?	6
Why did the Ramayana become so widespread?	5