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'A Chorus Line' is about performers auditioning for background dancer roles in a Broadway show. Would they ever have tried out for bigger roles? If I was a Broadway hopeful in the 1970s, how could I become a star?

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How does recording oral history, like for language preservation, affect the culture's ongoing oral tradition? Especially if accuracy means adapting to the present?

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How did Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander cultures adapt to the imposition of the European calendar of weeks, months that don't line up with weeks OR the moon, and the Anno Domini year system? Did people mock the need for leap years?

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How did the end of apartheid affect law enforcement in South Africa?

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How did the HIV/AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s affect the Deaf community in the U.S.?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
'A Chorus Line' is about performers auditioning for background dancer roles in a Broadway show. Would they ever have tried out for bigger roles? If I was a Broadway hopeful in the 1970s, how could I become a star?	9
How does recording oral history, like for language preservation, affect the culture's ongoing oral tradition? Especially if accuracy means adapting to the present?	5
How did Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander cultures adapt to the imposition of the European calendar of weeks, months that don't line up with weeks OR the moon, and the Anno Domini year system? Did people mock the need for leap years?	5
How did the end of apartheid affect law enforcement in South Africa?	3
How did the HIV/AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s affect the Deaf community in the U.S.?	3