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How have sedentary Arabs treated and regarded Bedouin people in their respective countries? Is there any analogy to how Irish Travellers, Romany people, and other traditionally nomadic peoples have been treated in Europe?	54
With the passing of Billy Graham, to what extent did he pave the way for the politicized evangelism of the likes of Falwell in the 80s?	53
In the United States in the 80s and 90s, why were ostensibly liberal figures involved in the seemingly very conservative crusade against the rock music of the day (think the Gores' involvement in the PMRC, Phil Donahue's very worried reaction to Marilyn Manson)?	53
There is a notion that Western fashion has historically changed faster than other cultures' fashions. Is the notion true, or is it a case of Western historians being sensitive to changes in Western fashion while failing to notice the aspects that changed in other cultures' fashions?	52
During the early days of American independence, how popular was the deism of the Founding Fathers among non-elites?	51
Why does the ethnogenesis of the Finnish people seem to be poorly attested, and why do their Medieval Norse neighbors seem to have written more about the Sámi people way up north (who I understand were called Finns before the term came to denote mainly the Suomalaiset people called Finns today)?	51
I've often seen it written that racial (rather than religious) anti-Semitism is very recent (I'm thinking late 19th or early 20th c.). However, isn't Martin Luther's statement about how he'd baptize a Jew by drowning him pretty clearly an instance of racial anti-Semitism?	51
Before Treasure Island (1950) cemented the association of West Country accents with pirates, was any other specific accent associated with pirates? E.g. do we know what, if any, accent Gilbert and Sullivan might have associated with pirates when they created The Pirates of Penzance (1879)?	51
Was there palpable backlash against Laurence Olivier's use of blackface in Othello in 1965? Did any renowned civil rights figures comment on it?	49
Common Law is considered so uniquely British that the Spanish term for it literally means "Anglo-Saxon Law." Did anything similar to it exist on the continent before Napoleon largely standardized Western European legal codes?	47

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