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Did the Bubonic Plague have any influence on the art of medieval Europe? Did it leave any legacy?	5
In Svetlana Alexievich’s book the Unwomanly Face Of War a few of her interview subjects mentioned how families or relatives that took in their children while they were at the front would refuse to give back their children. Was this common problem or was it relatively isolated?	5
Do we have any idea how gender egalitarian Teryan early pre-Christian pagan England was? And how much the introduction of Christianity change to that?	5
Any major European populations that stayed behind during Decolonization?	5
Was there a “cult of personality” around Tito in Yugoslavia as their was among Stalin and his “Little Stalins” in the various other Iron Curtain countries?	5
I’m reading Wikipedia to find out about the history of veterinarians and it seems curiously focused on Europe and the Middle East. What’s the history of veterinarians in China?	5
In 1985 Elim Klimov’s widely lauded film Come See was released to the general public. It depicted the brutal occupation of Byelorussia by Nazi forces during the Second World War. How did the survivors of that time react to the movie? Did it spark any discussions?	5
What did the other Southern states think of the Nullification Crisis and South Carolina’s actions?	5
FDR’s first nomination to the Supreme Court was Hugo Black, a former member of the KKK. Did Roosevelt or any of his aides in the administration know this before they nominated him? And how did the black community that voted for Roosevelt react to the news?	5
Why did Judaism spread out over both Eastern and Western Europe Europe but Islam was confined to the Middle East and the Balkans?	5

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