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Throughout Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), Kenneth Branagh's version of Victor Frankenstein wears facial hair that seems highly implausible for a well-to-do 1790's Western European man. How would a man of this description wearing such facial hair have been received by his peers?	7
When did European kings begin studying at universities?	7
Did the American legal profession ever have the division between barristers and solicitors that exists in the UK today? Or is that division one that developed in the UK later than American Independence?	7
What's the history of the bullfighter's traje de luces? With its knee-breeches and high-cut jacket, I'm guessing it has its origins around the turn of the 19th century, right?	7
What's the consensus on the acceptability (or lack thereof) of using the term "Victorian" for the history of non-British countries from 1837 to 1901? Is it considered bad practice to speak of "the Victorian U.S."? What about, say, "Victorian Spain" or "Victorian France"?	7
When did European kings begin attending universities?	6
What connection (if any) is there between modern corruption in Mexico and colonial Spanish governing practices?	6
With the rapid "freelance-ification" of labor in the last decade, problems have arisen from outdated laws that focus little on situations outside long-term employer-employee relationships. Have there been similar earlier cases of labor methods changing much too fast for the law to keep up?	6
During the last decade or two of the 18th century, was anyone (apart from Quakers, of course) still using "thee" and "thou" in ordinary speech?	6
In the US, was there ever a "one-drop" rule regarding Native American ancestry the way that there was regarding African ancestry? Why or why not	6

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