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In a CNN interview a few years ago, Sir Ian McKellen mentioned that "some of the earliest marriages conducted by the Christian church were between men" and homophobic attitudes are "sort of Victorian". How much does this hold true?

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How accurate was the HBO television film 'The Normal Heart' in retelling the AIDS crisis between 1981-83?

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Were popular Elizabethan/Jacobean playwrights such as Shakespeare, Ford and Jonson as popular with their contemporaries as they are with modern critics?

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What do we know about the Medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer?

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Were classical methods of slave torture such as crucifixion replicated by African slave owners in the U.S. before abolition?

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While learning about the end of the Cold War, my teacher mentioned that our current economic problems have been caused, in part, by Reagan's 56% increase in arms spending in the 1980's. How much does this hold true?

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I've been told that the Romans had access to a natural, plant-based aphrodisiac, but their society was so promiscuous that it was over-used into extinction. How much truth is there to this?

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Compared to the other Grecian city-states, what was the economic, cultural and political position of Thebes between 375-300BC?

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What were the key events of the period of peaceful coexistence between the US and Soviet Union (1953-62)?

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In a CNN interview a few years ago, Sir Ian McKellen mentioned that "some of the earliest marriages conducted by the Christian church were between men" and homophobic attitudes are "sort of Victorian". How much does this hold true?	1039
How accurate was the HBO television film 'The Normal Heart' in retelling the AIDS crisis between 1981-83?	70
Were popular Elizabethan/Jacobean playwrights such as Shakespeare, Ford and Jonson as popular with their contemporaries as they are with modern critics?	25
What do we know about the Medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer?	8
Were classical methods of slave torture such as crucifixion replicated by African slave owners in the U.S. before abolition?	7
While learning about the end of the Cold War, my teacher mentioned that our current economic problems have been caused, in part, by Reagan's 56% increase in arms spending in the 1980's. How much does this hold true?	4
I've been told that the Romans had access to a natural, plant-based aphrodisiac, but their society was so promiscuous that it was over-used into extinction. How much truth is there to this?	1
Compared to the other Grecian city-states, what was the economic, cultural and political position of Thebes between 375-300BC?	1
What were the key events of the period of peaceful coexistence between the US and Soviet Union (1953-62)?	0