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Do any reputable historians take seriously the Belgae theory of English (i.e. that the Belgae brought Germanic speech to Britain centuries before the Anglo-Saxons, supposedly explaining a) lack of Celtic words in English and b) greater divergence between English and other W. Germanic languages)?	32
What did the American Founding Fathers think of Cromwell? Was he an anti-royalist inspiration to them, or were his theocratic motivations too antithetical to their Enlightenment deism for them to admire him?	32
How true is the claim that JFK's health made it unlikely he would have lived more than a few years if he hadn't been assassinated?	32
I've heard that complaints about Ewoks were more a product of the Internet age than of the era when Return of the Jedi (1983) came out. Is that true? What did contemporary reviews/commentary say about those cute ursine creatures seemingly perfectly calculated to appeal to kids?	32
Italian-Irish marriages seem to have been common in the Eastern US for about as long as these immigrant groups have been in contact with each other. How have these marriages (and the children born to them) been received by the two communities from the 19th century to the recent past?	32
Why was Washington admitted to the Union so much later than neighboring Oregon (1889 vs 1859)? (second attempt)	32
TIL Lázaro Cárdenas was still alive when the Tlatelolco massacre of 1968 occurred. What did he have to say about it?	31
Once cars became a thing, how long did it take for old traffic laws originally meant for horse-drawn transportation to be updated? Did courts run into any problems having to adjudicate the first car accidents under the old laws?	31
By the time the Normans got to England, did they still identify at all with their Viking ancestors? Was their decision to invade England a conscious continuation of Viking-style maritime raids?	30
Was there controversy around Monty Python's Flying Circus' use of Nazi Germany for comedy less than three decades after WWII?	30

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