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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) (3rd attempt)	4
Some time following the end of WWII, Germany rightly came to see Hitler as someone whom no credible or decent person should admire. How has Spain's treatment of Franco since his death compared (obviously to the extent that this can be discussed in accordance with the 20-year rule)?	4
There are portraits (both painted and photographic) of Queen Victoria from pretty much every stage of her life, so why do images of her in late-middle age and old age seem to be the most enduring in the popular memory?	4
Did the British Romantics consider themselves Romantics? If not, who classified them as such and when?	4
How did so many cultures come to have differentiated titles for women based on marital status (e.g. "Mrs" vs "Miss") but not for men (who are pretty much all "Mr" all their lives)?	4
As a corollary to the question about why we imagine royal crowns the way we do, what is the origin of the image of royal robes as red or purple lined at the edges with a black-speckled white fur?	4
Why was Prince singing about "party[ing] like it's 1999" in 1982? Was fear of a Y2K disaster really already a thing by then?	4
TIL that, while England saw no new university from 1209 to 1826, other centers of higher education (e.g. the Inns of Court for lawyers, hospitals that trained doctors) did arise. Why have routes to high-status professions tended to be absorbed into the university system rather than stay independent?	4
Queen Victoria's likeness was well documented throughout her life, so why have depictions of her in late-middle and old age become the most dominant and recognizable ones today?	4
Why don't English-speaking countries have a strong tradition of celebrating and giving gifts on the Epiphany like, e.g., in the Spanish- and French-speaking ones? Has it always been this way or not? If not, was the change related to the adoption of Protestantism?	4

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