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Did the Bulgars actually switch to speaking a Slavic language, or are modern Bulgarians descendents of people who took the Bulgars' name without actually descending from the original Turkic Bulgars?	30
What factors prevented the Roosevelt family from forming a political dynasty like that of the Kennedy family? Both were prominent, well-to-do Northeastern families after all, with the Roosevelts having established themselves considerably earlier.	29
By the time of the Great Schism (1054), did Catholics and Orthodox Christians consider each other heretics, excommunicates, or somehow false Christians? Put simply, did each group think the other was bound for hell? (Trying again for the sixth time)	29
Blackbeard, Black Bart, Captain Kidd, Captain Morgan. etc... All the big names of the Golden Age of Piracy seem to be British. Was Atlantic piracy in the late 18th/early 19th c. really overwhelmingly British, or has an Anglo-Americentric view of that period minimized pirates of other nations?	29
There's a certain romantic idea of rebellious youths literally breaking down racial barriers at 50's rock concerts. How frequent and representative was such conduct among the era's rock-loving youth, and how significant was it in the broader context of mid-century desegregation efforts?	29
Why did late Francoist Spain (1960s and 70s) allow so many gory and sexually graphic horror films to be made?	29
Louisiana law is still heavily influenced by French civil law. Why then does the law of southwestern US states seem to show very little influence from Spanish/Mexican civil law (apart from the community property marital regime)?	29
With whom did Francisco Franco have more in common, pre-WWII fascist European dictators or 20th-century Latin American dictators (think from Trujillo up to Pinochet)?	29
Do any serious historians subscribe to the theory that a tribe called the Belgae brought Germanic languages to England much earlier than the Anglo-Saxons?	28
Did what we now call gentrification occur in London or any other European city in the nineteenth century?	28

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