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There seem to be a lot of rumors (some substantiated and some not) of homosexual activity by famous English Shakespearean actors of the 20th century. Was there an implicit connection between 20th-c. English theatre culture and gay culture, and if so, how did this come about? (2nd attempt)	6
Were braces to fix imperfect but functional teeth ever stigmatized the way that, e.g., rhinoplasties and hair transplants have been in more recent times?	6
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? (5th attempt)	6
Did the accent of Sudeten Germans sound unusual or foreign to German speakers born in Germany or Austria?	6
Was illegal slavery ever documented in the post-Civil War South?	6
Looking for recommendations for books about 1830's Spain - both about general history and about literary and print culture more specifically (in Spanish or English) (5th attempt)	6
Considering the messy succession from Henry VIII to Elizabeth and of course the earlier War of the Roses, how was a crisis of succession avoided following Elizabeth's death without issue?	6
I recall that the translation of Socrates' Apology that I read in my first university philosophy class had S. invoking "God." Is this just a Christianized translation of "Zeus" or did he actually use some generic term for "God" (Theos?) and/or hold monotheistic beliefs centuries before Christ?	6
During the 1994 Mexican presidential election, the PRI's initial candidate, Luis Donaldo Colosio, was shot dead at a rally in Tijuana after his discourse had become increasingly focused on social justice. How and why was he nominated in the first place if he was so different from his party-mates?	6
Well known is the Old Norse-derived name "Halfdane." Did similarly formed names like "Halfswede" or "Halfgeat" exist? If not, why was having partial Danish ancestry deemed notable, but not having partial ancestry from other Norse sub-groups?	6

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