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How recently did Orthodox Christianity survive among Alaskan Natives directly descended from Orthodox Christians converted by Russian missionaries?	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
Did any Western Romans flee to the Eastern Roman Empire during the final stages of the Western Empire's decline in the 5th century?	10
How did the Maniot Greeks manage to remain pagan until the ninth century AD, given how early other Greeks were Christianized?	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
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
How did black metal develop such a strong association with far-right politics, especially when compared to other metal subgenres?	10
Frankenstein (1818) and Dracula (1897) are often paired together as some of the greatest English-language horror novels of the 19th century (if not all time), despite 79 years between them. When did this pairing begin? Is it wholly a product of Universal Studios adapting them 9 months apart in 1931?	9
Why did so many Lebanese and Syrian migrants settle in Mexico?	9
Why did Italian-Americans constitute (or seem to constitute) a disproportionately high percentage of the classic crooners?	9

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