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I'm a perversely wealthy Roman patrician and the year is 125. What luxuries do I have that the poor and ignoble do not?

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In a lecture I watched today at my high school, various statistics regarding Islam both historically and in contemporary society were presented without sources, and I would like to verify the validity of some of these claims.

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The Congress of Vienna created a Germanic Confederation which included only part of Austrian and Prussian territory. What were each states' obligations according to this agreement? How was it possible for only a geographical portion of a state to be involved in a military confederation?

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Did Napoleon Bonaparte consider himself a failure?

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Did early Anglo-Saxon Kings of England ever (or frequently) venture onto the continent?

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Did the Catholic Church call itself the Catholic Church before the Protestant Reformation?

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I am vaguely familiar with the Confucian ideal of civil service, but do not have a clear picture of how it has been implemented historically. How has the Chinese civil service model changed between different dynasties?

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What, if any, implications did the Magna Carta have on the Hundred Years' War?

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Which European states were most populated directly after the Black Plague? Which states grew the most explosively? What were the implications of a larger or more rapidly growing population in this period?

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Why is Warren G. Harding so often marked as the worst president?

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I'm a perversely wealthy Roman patrician and the year is 125. What luxuries do I have that the poor and ignoble do not?	482
In a lecture I watched today at my high school, various statistics regarding Islam both historically and in contemporary society were presented without sources, and I would like to verify the validity of some of these claims.	92
The Congress of Vienna created a Germanic Confederation which included only part of Austrian and Prussian territory. What were each states' obligations according to this agreement? How was it possible for only a geographical portion of a state to be involved in a military confederation?	78
Did Napoleon Bonaparte consider himself a failure?	21
Did early Anglo-Saxon Kings of England ever (or frequently) venture onto the continent?	18
Did the Catholic Church call itself the Catholic Church before the Protestant Reformation?	8
I am vaguely familiar with the Confucian ideal of civil service, but do not have a clear picture of how it has been implemented historically. How has the Chinese civil service model changed between different dynasties?	8
What, if any, implications did the Magna Carta have on the Hundred Years' War?	7
Which European states were most populated directly after the Black Plague? Which states grew the most explosively? What were the implications of a larger or more rapidly growing population in this period?	6
Why is Warren G. Harding so often marked as the worst president?	5