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What's highest rank ever attained by a drafted soldier?

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I'm Given to understanding that in the late Middle Ages the Ottomans were relatively tolerant non Muslims practicing their religions within the Empire. Did the Islamic religious leaders in the Ottoman empire often/ever object to that policy?

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the last (western) Roman governor in Gaul, Syagrius, inherited the position from his father Aegidius. Was it at all normal for Roman governors to pass on their position to family members after they die?

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Suppose it's 1116 in England and I ask a catholic priest "can people have sex in heaven?" What do you think he'd say?

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suppose you're in Constantinople in around AD 1100 and you go to an apothecary shop. what "medicines" on sale (if any) would have actually had any medicinal value?

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suppose it's 1818 and I am a Native American man in the Southern united states. What would happen if I walked into a town tried to register to vote?

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Why were there no medieval Eropean cities with a population as a high as first century Rome?

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in his life time did George Orwell ever express annoyance at the fact some people take and use his novels to condemn socialism in general instead of just what happened in the USSR?

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2000 years ago Troy was still inhabited, were the Romans aware that it was the site of Homer's poem?

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Remember saving Private Ryan. Do you think ordering several men on a mission of no strategic purpose for entirly sentimental reasons, would be out of character for the real General Marshall?

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What's highest rank ever attained by a drafted soldier?	60
I'm Given to understanding that in the late Middle Ages the Ottomans were relatively tolerant non Muslims practicing their religions within the Empire. Did the Islamic religious leaders in the Ottoman empire often/ever object to that policy?	60
the last (western) Roman governor in Gaul, Syagrius, inherited the position from his father Aegidius. Was it at all normal for Roman governors to pass on their position to family members after they die?	60
Suppose it's 1116 in England and I ask a catholic priest "can people have sex in heaven?" What do you think he'd say?	59
suppose you're in Constantinople in around AD 1100 and you go to an apothecary shop. what "medicines" on sale (if any) would have actually had any medicinal value?	59
suppose it's 1818 and I am a Native American man in the Southern united states. What would happen if I walked into a town tried to register to vote?	59
Why were there no medieval Eropean cities with a population as a high as first century Rome?	58
in his life time did George Orwell ever express annoyance at the fact some people take and use his novels to condemn socialism in general instead of just what happened in the USSR?	58
2000 years ago Troy was still inhabited, were the Romans aware that it was the site of Homer's poem?	58
Remember saving Private Ryan. Do you think ordering several men on a mission of no strategic purpose for entirly sentimental reasons, would be out of character for the real General Marshall?	58