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What's the evidence for the historical Socrates? Is he portrayed consistently in the ancient literature in which he appears?	4
Was the Bar Kokhba revolt the last serious messiah movement among Jews? If so, there had been many movements in the 100+ years before then, why did they stop? If not, what were the others?	3
What's the story on fools?	3
I've heard that Jefferson Davis wanted to continue a guerilla fight against the north after the surrender of the army of northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House. Did this take place in any form?	3
When did adultery stop being a crime that would be prosecuted in the West?	3
was saul of tarsus a prominent public figure prior to his conversion to christianity? how well known would local tax collectors be in the roman empire of this era?	3
Was Andrew Jackson's wife, in fact, a bigamist? Was it legal when he killed a man dueling? How much was he a victim of bad press, versus how much he brought on himself?	3
Agrippina is accused of poisoning (or arranging the poisoning of) her husband, the emperor Claudius. When ancient historians make such a charge, are they relying on evidence, and, if so, what would that be?	3
What sorts of accounts do we have of Constantine's deathbed conversion to Christianity? Did he convert to the exclusion of other gods? Are there any doubts to its sincerity? Was it motivated by politics, and, if so, how did that work (given that it came at the very end of his life)?	3
Historians of the Flavian era seem to paint the Julio-Claudians as particularly promiscuous and decadent;was this meant in contrast to a more measured and restrained Flavian dynasty? Would they stay away from modern politics? Was it understood that the Republic wasn't coming back?	3

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