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Just the other day, there was a question about the name Halfdan(e) among Viking-era Norsemen. Were there other similarly formed names (e.g., Halfswede or Halfgeat, or whatever would have been the proper Old Norse forms)?	14
I understand that John Adams was suspected of being a monarchist in the very early days of the American republic. When did monarchism in the US cease to be an ideology that, e.g., your next-door neighbor might credibly hold (or be feared to hold)?	14
Where does black metal corpse paint come from? I've seen BM musicians claim it came from Old Norse Berserkers, but that seems to me like a crafty attempt to assign a romantic, mystical, and pagan origin to what would much more easily and credibly be explained by... Kiss and King Diamond.	14
The states of Georgia, Maryland, New York, North and South Carolina, and Virginia are all named after British royals. Why did they remain unchanged after American independence? Was there any public debate about whether to keep or change them? [3rd attempt]	14
Has treatment of Bedouin people by sedentary Arabs been comparable to how Irish Travellers, Roma people, Yenish people, and other traditionally itinerant peoples have been treated in Europe? If not, why?	14
Did the Romans at the time of the Gallic Wars and thereafter realize that the language that the Gauls spoke was related to their own?	14
Did Norse incursions into Anglo-Saxon England lead to any Anglo-Saxon locals converting to Norse paganism?	14
In the early days of American independence, did Americans still think of themselves as British, or even consider themselves the true heirs of a British cultural inheritance that the British themselves had perverted? Put another way, did Americans see themselves as 'protestant' Brits?	14
The American Revolution/War of Independence began about a year before the Declaration of Independence. What exactly was the Continental Army fighting for before that?	14
Did the way that the Russian government treated indigenous peoples during its eastward expansion parallel how the US government treated indigenous peoples during its roughly contemporaneous westward expansion?	14

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