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Speaking of education, when did English universities stop using Latin to teach classes unrelated to Latin language learning and start giving such classes in English?	7
In the UK at least, it appears that no monarch attended university until the 2nd half of the 19th century. Is the timeline similar for the rest of Europe? If so, why was that? Would kings attending university before that have been shameful?	7
[Education] At what point did British universities cease to use Latin as the language of instruction?	7
By the time of the Great Schism (1054), did Catholics and Orthodox Christians consider each other heretics, excommunicates, or somehow false Christians?	7
What happened to catchy, upbeat US presidential campaign jingles like "I Like Ike" and "Kennedy for Me"?	7
AMLO, Mexico's new president elect, has often been likened to Hugo Chávez by his right-wing detractors. Was his predecessor, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, similarly likened to Fidel Castro by his own right-wing detractors?	7
I recall Marilyn Manson was popularly treated as a scapegoat for the Columbine shooting in some circles in '99. Where did the idea that he might be somehow responsible come from, and how did it spread?	7
Considering how La Malinche was sold into slavery by her own people before associating with Cortés, have modern historians taken a more sympathetic view of her vis-à-vis the prevailing popular perception of her in Mexico as the consummate traitor?	7
Since I'm from the only US state named after a president (Washington), I'm wondering, was there ever serious talk of naming another western state, for example, Lincoln or Jefferson?	7
In the two times I've been to Spain, I was struck by the long stretches of nearly uniform, blocky, mostly residential brick buildings. When and how did such buildings come to be so widespread in Spain?	7

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