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From the late middle ages until now how seriously have Muslim populations held belief that djinn actually exist?	5	AskHistorians
How many Muslims lived in Constantinople, Galata, and nearby places right before the Ottoman conquest? How were they treated? And were they targeted by officials or the wider public for violence during the siege?	5	AskHistorians
OTHER THAN scalping, what purposes, ritually, strategically, socially, etc. did mutilation of enemy corpses by natives serve during the wars of the Great Plains in the 19th century?	5	AskHistorians
Has human appreciation of the "beauty" of landscapes and environments been ever present in the written record (outside of strictly record-keeping) or is it a trend that developed during identifiable periods of time across cultures?	5	AskHistorians
Where did France's Japanophilia's come from? Was all of Europe as interested in Japanese media at some point and then everyone else's tastes changed, or is the story of contemporary French Japonisme unique?	5	AskHistorians
I often hear that medieval to early modern aristocrats often felt more affinity w/ other nobles from foreign countries than peasants from their own. Did this hold true in cross-cultural/ideological contexts? e.g. Catholic aristocrat to Orthodox aristocrat, Christian noble to Muslim noble, etc.?	5	AskHistorians
How accurate is this description of the Ottoman deployment process to a hypothetical European battlefield?	5	AskHistorians
When did Irish people in Ireland start thinking of emigrants as "Irish-Americans" and not "Irish in America" (or substitute "-Canadians", "-Australians", or anywhere in the diaspora) and how did they talk and write about it?	5	AskHistorians
Was the United Farm Workers always ostensibly a Mexican-American organization? How did early members react to the Chicano imagery, especially since one of the two original founding organizations was mostly Filipino-American?	5	AskHistorians
Where were the (Western) "centers of learning" for science in the 19th century and how did scholars from the periphery get read? If Darwin had been from a small town in, say, Argentina, Sweden, or the U.S. could he have gotten published/read in London?	5	AskHistorians

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