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Let's say I'm a French or Austrian noble, 1600-1750. Do I recognize a Franco-Austrian or Bourbon-Hapsburg rivalry? Why?

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Members of the House of Lords are selected by the monarch. Has the monarch ever en-masse selected a bunch of random commoners to be lords?

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What was the contemporary rabbinical response to the Bar Kochba? Was there an attempt to execute him, like Christ?

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Why did continental Europe become more antisemitic over the course of the nineteenth century, while Britain became more so?

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What was the difference between the liberalization policies of the USSR and China?

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What would a 1960s, 1970s black-empowerment person think of "hoodoo," and African paganism?

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An article from 1897 says that Normandy was a "complete ethnic conquest" by blonde Teutons. Did ordinary French people feel persecuted or oppressed by Normans?

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During the Grand mosque seizure of 1979, why did the French commandos working for Saudi Arabia have to convert to Islam?

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How did Wahhabism come to be opposed to Islamism?

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People have been educating children for as long as there have been children. What does it mean that the field of education was invented 100 years ago?

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Let's say I'm a French or Austrian noble, 1600-1750. Do I recognize a Franco-Austrian or Bourbon-Hapsburg rivalry? Why?	8
Members of the House of Lords are selected by the monarch. Has the monarch ever en-masse selected a bunch of random commoners to be lords?	7
What was the contemporary rabbinical response to the Bar Kochba? Was there an attempt to execute him, like Christ?	7
Why did continental Europe become more antisemitic over the course of the nineteenth century, while Britain became more so?	7
What was the difference between the liberalization policies of the USSR and China?	6
What would a 1960s, 1970s black-empowerment person think of "hoodoo," and African paganism?	5
An article from 1897 says that Normandy was a "complete ethnic conquest" by blonde Teutons. Did ordinary French people feel persecuted or oppressed by Normans?	5
During the Grand mosque seizure of 1979, why did the French commandos working for Saudi Arabia have to convert to Islam?	5
How did Wahhabism come to be opposed to Islamism?	5
People have been educating children for as long as there have been children. What does it mean that the field of education was invented 100 years ago?	5