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Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah (known to critics as as the "mad Caliph" or "Nero of Islam") is said to have disappeared mysteriously, leaving only a donkey and bloodstained clothes behind. Is there a consensus among historians as to what caused his disappearance?
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Our earliest written sources on Boudica are from the Roman writers Tactius (writing over 30 years after the revolt) and Cassius Dio (writing over a century later). How confident are we that Boudica really existed?
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Seymour Hersh has claimed that during the 1980's, Israel placed nuclear land mines in the Golan Heights. What is the consensus of historians on this issue?
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Jerome claimed that Philip the Arab was the first Roman Emperor to be a Christian. What is the opinion of modern historians on this claim?
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The US government claimed prior the the Gulf War that Iraqi forces were massing at the border with Saudi Arabia. Is there a consensus among historians as to whether this claim is correct or false?
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The Book of Mormon famously depicts Jesus appearing in the Americas after the Resurrection. Did any previous Christian writers speculate on or write a story regarding Jesus appearing in the Americas, or is this the first recorded instance of this idea?
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In the lead-up to the establishment of Israel in 1948 were there any proposals for the Jewish state to be a monarchy like in the Hebrew Bible?
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