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How exactly did the political situation in Italy help lead to and extend the duration of the Avignon Popes? Given the longstanding fragmented nature of the area since the fall of the Roman Empire, Why was this period different?	12
How common were riding related deaths in the middle ages? Were injuries in them often either fatal or serious? If you were riding around in a different region, would the rules and customs around safely riding horses vary?	11
After the short-lived reign of Charles the II of Spain and other less notable consequences of inbreeding, was there any perceivable shift in how European royal families conducted intermarriage?	11
Records of fights from the heyday of bare knuckle days sometimes indicate that the fights could take hours. How is this possible? Did anyone die of exhaustion under these conditions?	11
In the event of cheating or other underhanded conduct during a duel, how would cheating be determined and by who? Would the legal system take over from there, presumably charging them with murder?	11
Prior to the 20th century, were there political assassinations in the United States, attempted or otherwise, that elicited some wider feelings of a conspiracy among the public at the time?	10
Why is it that Japan, a fiercely nationalist country at the time, seems to have far less wartime propaganda than most of the other players in WW2? Was there any notable "icon" so to speak of in Japanese wartime propaganda?	10
I've been in an argument with someone who claims that immigration was responsible for the downfall of the roman empire. What elements of truth are there to this if any?	10
Was the Cold War related to the rise of spy or espionage fiction as a staple of pop culture? If so, what changed in regard to the public perception of spies and espionage?	9
Were communists slightly more tolerated in the United States during the period of WW2 when we were openly allies with Russia?	9

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