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From the Great Schism (1054) to the Reformation (let's say 1520), did Catholics and Orthodox Christians consider each other heretics or somehow not truly Christian? Did each of the two groups think the other was going to Hell?	10
Why is so much of the iconography associated with present-day Mexican Independence Day celebrations actually from the Mexican Revolution from 100 years later (e.g., charro outfits, big Zapata-style mustaches, Adelita dresses, etc.)?	10
When did the majority of well-to-do young men in Great Britain switch from wearing knee-breeches to long pants in terms of everyday wear?	10
Blackbeard, Black Bart, Captain Kidd, Captain Morgan, etc... All the big names of the Golden Age of Piracy seem to be British. Was late-17th/early-18th-c. Atlantic piracy really overwhelmingly British, or have Anglo-Americentric views of that period minimized pirates of other nations? (6th attempt)	10
I'm from Seattle. Why didn't my city (and other major west-coast cities) seem to have a history of Irish- and Italian-American organized crime like so many east-coast cities (and Las Vegas)?	10
Based on transnational historical developments in the legal profession, why do nearly all countries in the common law (i.e. Anglo-American) tradition have paralegals, while practically none in the civil law (i.e., Romano-Napoleonic) tradition have them?	10
When the Romans conquered other Indo-European speakers (such as Celtic and Germanic peoples), did they have any sense of the now well-established fact that such peoples' languages were related to their own?	10
Coinciding with the 1790's Gothic novel craze was an equal craze for Gothic theatre. What sorts of "special effects" would've been used on stage? What was the musical accompaniment like, if there was any?	10
How did the Maniot Greeks manage to remain pagan until the ninth century AD, given how early other Greeks were Christianized?	10
How and why did androgynous style flourish in the 1980's Anglosphere (which seems to have been otherwise very conservative)?	10

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