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Why was an old boot the stereotypical “rubbish” that you fished up when you had a bad day of fishing? Were there a plethora of people throwing their boots into rivers at the time?

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Before the union of Castile and Aragon and the Reconquista, Spain was under Islamic rule for 700 years, and under Visigoth rule before then. What, if any, cultural ties to the Roman name Hispania did the people of the area have?

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We have various accounts of the Spanish conquistadors encountering and marveling at the wonders of the New World. Do we have any accounts of the first Indigenous Americans to travel to Europe and their reaction to the Old World?

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What is the earliest mention of the deja vu phenomenon and what did they interpret it as?

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Why was an old boot the stereotypical “rubbish” that you fished up when you had a bad day of fishing? Were there a plethora of people throwing their boots into rivers at the time?	1751
Before the union of Castile and Aragon and the Reconquista, Spain was under Islamic rule for 700 years, and under Visigoth rule before then. What, if any, cultural ties to the Roman name Hispania did the people of the area have?	26
We have various accounts of the Spanish conquistadors encountering and marveling at the wonders of the New World. Do we have any accounts of the first Indigenous Americans to travel to Europe and their reaction to the Old World?	5
What is the earliest mention of the deja vu phenomenon and what did they interpret it as?	1