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Despite the constitutional minimum age of 35, there has been no US president under 42. What factors have led to that? Did the framers of the Constitution expect that no future presidents would be close to the minimum age, as has occurred?	24
Has the treatment of Bedouin people by sedentary Arabs been at all analogous to the treatment of Irish Travellers, Romany, and other itinerant peoples (such as the Yenish) by sedentary Europeans?	23
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? (repost)	23
The Godfather portrays mid-century Italian-American mobsters as having a sort of honor code that drew a line at participating in the drug trade. Was this a reality, or just a plot device to make the organized criminal protagonists somewhat principled and sympathetic?	22
Why did the various de facto leaders of the Soviet Union over roughly seven decades have such inconsistent titles/offices?	22
Did any Mexican soldiers (I mean Mexican citizens, not Americans of Mexican descent) fight in the Vietnam War?	22
Why has Cromwell been portrayed as a champion of freedom and democracy when, AFAIK, Britain under him was a strict theocracy, akin to a Puritan version of post-1979 Iran?	22
Well known are the acts of voter suppression (e.g., so-called literacy tests, grandfather clauses, outright violence) to which black Americans were subjected for at least a century after emancipation. Were women voters subjected to similar acts in the elections of the 1920s and 30s? (4th attempt)	22
By 1054 (the Great Schism), did Catholics and Orthodox Christians consider each other heretics?	22
How was Lee Harvey Oswald able to return to the US after having defected to the USSR?	22

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