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How common was the Irish language in the US during the peak periods of Irish immigration? How many Irish monoglot were there and were there any communities that were primarily linguistically Irish?	2174
How did Orthodox Christians react to news and events of the Protestant Reformation?	640
During the Medieval era how interaction existed between Western European Jews and Jews outside of Europe? Would a 13th century Jew from Paris or Hamburg know about Jews from Ethiopia or India?	332
During the events of 13 Vendémiaire, Napoleon Bonaparte helped squash a revolt of 25,000 royalists in Paris. How exactly was a 25,000 strong force of royalist rebels able to even -reach- and assemble within Paris in the first place?	260
In societies where incestual marriage with very close degrees of relation was tolerated/celebrated (eg; brother-sister pairings in Egypt) did people ever notice or point out that the children of such pairings seemed to die more often than ones produced from non-incestual marriages?	194
Manichaeism seems almost unique in being a former major international world religion that was rendered completely extinct without even small remnant populations. Why did it disappear so entirely?	161
"Catholic Church" means "universal church" and "Orthodox Church" means "correct church" which sound like traits almost any Christian sect would identify as being "universal" and "correct". How did these words get associated with Western and Eastern Christian communities?	151
How was the French Revolution perceived in other states considered 'republican' such as Venice or the Swiss Confederacy?	146
How did people find food to eat when they lived in a fort or castle that was under a siege lasting months or years? How good was food preservation in pre-modern times and once that ran out would they completely dependent on smuggling or would there be any ways to make food from within the walls?	125
Was Charlemagne's illiteracy ordinary or unusual? Was it common to have powerful nobles or monarchs that were unable to read and if so when did literacy become common amongst the nobility?	123

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