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In “The Devil and Tom Walker” Washington Irving portrays being a money lender as morally equivalent to being a slave trader. How common was this view in Western society in the early 1800’s?

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Did Nixon’s sundowning lead to his wife essentially running the country for a year?

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“The King in Yellow” was published in 1895, starts with a prediction that America would go to war with Germany in 1920. Was this commonly viewed as a likely thing to happen?

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In “The Devil and Tom Walker” Washington Irving portrays being a money lender as morally equivalent to being a slave trader. How common was this view in Western society in the early 1800’s?	9
Did Nixon’s sundowning lead to his wife essentially running the country for a year?	3
“The King in Yellow” was published in 1895, starts with a prediction that America would go to war with Germany in 1920. Was this commonly viewed as a likely thing to happen?	1