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What issues led President Harry Truman to relieve General Douglas MacArthur of command in April 1951

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Were there three 'leaps forward' (3000 BCE, 600 BCE and 1100 CE)?

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What is the current consensus: was Homer one person or many for the source of Ἰλιάς and the Ὀδύσσεια?

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Richard E. Byrd was awarded the Medal of Honor for noncombat efforts-namely polar exploration-in 1926. Are there many others who have been awarded this honor for non-combat efforts?

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Shelby Foote asserted (in the PBS show about the American Civil War) that the North never fully devoted itself to the War, and that the South never had a real chance. Is this the current consensus?

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Did Louis XIV revoke the Edict of Nantes because of the influence of Madame de Maintenon, and was the Edict of Fontainebleau to placate Pope Innocent XI?

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Who was the most learned US President? The least?

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Abstraction in Japanese textiles

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What was the lasting influence of Al-Andalus on Spanish and Jewish music?

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How are Tim Pat Coogan's biographies of Michael Collins and Éamon de Valera regarded by historians of the birth of the modern Irish State?

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What issues led President Harry Truman to relieve General Douglas MacArthur of command in April 1951	196
Were there three 'leaps forward' (3000 BCE, 600 BCE and 1100 CE)?	76
What is the current consensus: was Homer one person or many for the source of Ἰλιάς and the Ὀδύσσεια?	23
Richard E. Byrd was awarded the Medal of Honor for noncombat efforts-namely polar exploration-in 1926. Are there many others who have been awarded this honor for non-combat efforts?	19
Shelby Foote asserted (in the PBS show about the American Civil War) that the North never fully devoted itself to the War, and that the South never had a real chance. Is this the current consensus?	7
Did Louis XIV revoke the Edict of Nantes because of the influence of Madame de Maintenon, and was the Edict of Fontainebleau to placate Pope Innocent XI?	7
Who was the most learned US President? The least?	5
Abstraction in Japanese textiles	5
What was the lasting influence of Al-Andalus on Spanish and Jewish music?	5
How are Tim Pat Coogan's biographies of Michael Collins and Éamon de Valera regarded by historians of the birth of the modern Irish State?	4