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A history professor once told our class that Christianity resulted from an extended dialog between Jewish thought and Greek philosophy - is there any truth to this statement?

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Are there any historical records of Mormon missionaries being active in China during the period of the Taiping Rebellion?

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If, as I understand it, Operation Sea Lion would have basically been a suicide mission in the face of the British Navy, how on earth did Nazi Germany successfully invade Norway?

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Are there any records describing sea battles fought by or against the Srivijaya kingdom of ancient Indonesia/Malaysia?

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Does the Koran have a singular author or is it a collection of separate works by multiple writers?

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At the dawn of the common era (CE/AD 1) would any religion in the world have had a larger corpus of sacred writings than Judaism?

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Have their ever been any been any battles in Iceland? If so, what was the largest battle to ever take place in Iceland?

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At what point, if at all, did the English colonies undergo a "choc des patois" similar to that of French Quebec where various mutually unintelligible regional dialects of the home country collapsed or merged into a dialect that was understandable by most of the colonists.

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Did the pre-Roman era inhabitants of the Iberian Pennisula leave any written records behind?

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Did the Atlantic Coast of Sub-Saharan Africa have any type of vessel-borne coastal trade prior to the arrival of the Portuguese in the 15th century?

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A history professor once told our class that Christianity resulted from an extended dialog between Jewish thought and Greek philosophy - is there any truth to this statement?	6
Are there any historical records of Mormon missionaries being active in China during the period of the Taiping Rebellion?	6
If, as I understand it, Operation Sea Lion would have basically been a suicide mission in the face of the British Navy, how on earth did Nazi Germany successfully invade Norway?	6
Are there any records describing sea battles fought by or against the Srivijaya kingdom of ancient Indonesia/Malaysia?	5
Does the Koran have a singular author or is it a collection of separate works by multiple writers?	5
At the dawn of the common era (CE/AD 1) would any religion in the world have had a larger corpus of sacred writings than Judaism?	5
Have their ever been any been any battles in Iceland? If so, what was the largest battle to ever take place in Iceland?	5
At what point, if at all, did the English colonies undergo a "choc des patois" similar to that of French Quebec where various mutually unintelligible regional dialects of the home country collapsed or merged into a dialect that was understandable by most of the colonists.	5
Did the pre-Roman era inhabitants of the Iberian Pennisula leave any written records behind?	5
Did the Atlantic Coast of Sub-Saharan Africa have any type of vessel-borne coastal trade prior to the arrival of the Portuguese in the 15th century?	5