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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) (8th attempt)	3
During the early days of the American republic, many of the Founding Fathers were deists. How common was deism among non-elite Americans?	3
"War" is apparently an example of a French-derived (or at least more broadly Gallo-Romance derived) English word that slightly pre-dates the Norman Invasion. What kind of contact did England have with the Normans and/or other Gallo-Romance speaking peoples before 1066?	3
Given the rise of climate change denial in the GOP under the Reagan and Bush administrations, what did Nixon, who oversaw the creation of the EPA, have to say about it?	3
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) (7th attempt)	3
In Friedrich Schiller's 1789 novel The Ghost-Seer, a conman uses electricity to power a device to fake the appearance of a ghost, which is a much more modern use of electricity than I had expected for the period. What uses of electricity existed before 1800?	3
How was Laurence Olivier's decision to play Othello in blackface in 1965 (right in the midst of the US civil rights movement) received?	3
Why is Europe so much less linguistically diverse than other continents?	3
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) (4th attempt)	3
Were any of the post-war South American heads of state (such as Juan Perón of Argentina) whose administrations oversaw the migration of prominent Nazis into their countries Nazi sympathizers themselves?	3

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