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Was there any urbanization in Scandinavia prior to Christianization?	6
Since Mexico just had a presidential election, I'm curious about the 1988 election. According to evidence available today, just how fraudulent was it?	5
Well known is Russia's cultural Westernization under Peter the Great. How did high-status men of other Eastern European countries dress in the 18th c.? Did they adopt Western European dress with wigs/ringlets, knee-breeches, etc., or use more traditionally Eastern European attire?	5
How strong is the evidence for the claim that Geoffrey Chaucer committed rape?	5
Would Americans today be offended by the BO of well-to-do Americans from 100 years ago? From 200 years ago?	5
What sort of interactions did the Vikings (or Norse in general) have with their Finnic neighbors? Was there cultural cross-polination?	5
I'm a young, fashionable, well-to-do Englishman in the 1810s. During which years of the decade am I most likely to wear knee breeches as opposed to long pants, and vice-versa? [Fashion]	5
I'm reading a novel published in 1796 (Theodore Cyphon) that begins with three ruffians attempting to rob an older man in Whitechapel; I found this interesting, as the work precedes Jack the Ripper by nearly a century. How long has Whitechapel been associated with crime?	5
From Blind Harry's The Wallace to the Jacobite Rebellion to modern initiatives for Scottish independence, there has long been a strong nationalistic/separatist strain among the Scots. Why does nothing comparable seem to have existed among the Welsh?	5
With the rapid "freelancification" of labor this past decade, problems have arisen from dated laws that focus little on situations outside long-term employer-employee relationships. Did a similar period of incongruency between labor laws and labor realities occur during the Industrial Revolution?	5

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