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Salsa music is popular in Mexico, so why has Mexico had very few salsa musicians of its own? (3rd attempt)	4
Before his untimely demise, John, Prince of Schleswig-Holstein, was set to marry the Tsarevna of Russia, Xenia Borisovna Godunova, and even arrived in Russia for the occasion. He was Lutheran, and Xenia was Orthodox, so who was to adopt whose religion and why?	4
How long did ethnic distinctions between Arabs and Berbers last in Al-Andalus?	4
The long s (which looks like an uncrossed f) seems to have been phased out of English typography circa 1803-05. Was there any resistance to this?	4
Why didn't NY Governor Mario Cuomo run for president when he was one of the most charismatic Democratic politicians of the Reagan-Bush era?	4
Given the popular image of Sparta as too martial to concern itself with other areas of culture, were there any Ancient Spartan philosophers or literati whose work survives today?	4
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? (4th attempt)	4
Movies of Medieval battles often show the king fighting with his crown on. To the extent they fought at all, wouldn't kings want to blend in with their soldiers rather than announce themselves as a key target? (For some focus, I am thinking of a period from roughly 1000 to 1450)	4
Was Reformation-era Germany just as religiously intolerant in its own way as Spain was at the same time under the Holy Inquisition?	4
Le Solitaire (1821; The Recluse) by the Vicomte d'Arlincourt saw many editions and was a Europe-wide sensation translated into German, English (twice!), Dutch, Italian, Danish, Polish, Spanish, Swedish, Russian, and Portuguese by 1824. Why did it fail to make the 19th-c. European novelistic canon?	4

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