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Was the public aware that the Inquisition was most likely burning a bunch of innocent people? Was there any public criticism of it? Martin Luther's primary objection to the church was that it was corrupt and not living up to the spirit of the Bible; did he have criticisms of the Inquisition also?	40
In 1994, Tom Clancy wrote 'Debt of Honor', in which terrorists take out most of the government of the United States by flying a commercial plane into the Capitol during the State of the Union. Did any counterterrorism officials publicly comment on the book?	39
How were works like Catullus's poems or Caesar's de bello gallico circulated?	39
Upon entering office, Woodrow Wilson segregated the US postal service, the treasury, and the US Navy; how did he justify this? Were there political consequences?	39
Horses came to North America with Europeans; did this transform Native American life as much as one would expect? Did they use other animals as pack or transport animals before this time?	39
it seems that Dickens's work is littered with eccentric mid-level bureaucrats. Was this a reflection of Dickens, or of the English bureaucracy of the mid-19th century?	39
Dan Carlin suggests that during their conquests, Mongol women were responsible for the training of their warrior class, and were, in fact, formidable fighters themselves. Was this ordinary among the Steppe people of their times? How did this approach come about?	39
According to Christian tradition, all but one of Christ's disciples died a martyr, and martyrdom is inextricably linked to the church's first couple centuries of existence. How was the church able to survive and ultimately thrive in the face of this?	37
Was there in fact a longstanding shared cultural 'German' identity before the nation was formed in 1871, or was this the cultural phenomenon of 'nostalgia for a non-existent past'?	37
The great smog of London in 1952 resulted in the deaths of thousands over the course of 4 days; was there an immediate government response or changes as a result?	37

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