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Did Bela Lugosi really learn his lines in Dracula (1931) phonetically due to lack of English skills? I've heard this story a lot, but I find it hard to believe for many reasons.

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Why does the post-Conquest Ramírez Codex (a.k.a. Tovar Codex) depict apparent Classical Western columns outside a Mexica temple?

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How did Medieval people make fires?

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I understand that the banning of civilian gun use in most Western countries is fairly recent. During the first half of the 19th century, was the US's attitude toward guns unique in the West the way that it is today?

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Depending on the tradition one believes, Siddhartha Gautama was either a contemporary of Socrates or lived about a century earlier. Did awareness of Buddhism ever spread to Greece in antiquity?

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Where and when did the archetypal European Medieval castle originate? Was it at all consciously based on the earlier Roman castrum?

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Why did catchy and upbeat US presidential campaign jingles like "I like Ike" and "Kennedy for Me" disappear?

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When did Scotland cease to have a Catholic majority?

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Following the English Reformation, how did English Protestant communities deal with churches and other sites that might be of interest to continental Catholic pilgrims (e.g., Canterbury Cathedral)? Did they ban such pilgrims from visiting? Grudgingly tolerate them? Attempt to profit off them?

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In 1968, was there any discomfort among GOP members about Nixon running after having already been an unsuccessful Republican presidential nominee right years earlier?

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Did Bela Lugosi really learn his lines in Dracula (1931) phonetically due to lack of English skills? I've heard this story a lot, but I find it hard to believe for many reasons.	3
Why does the post-Conquest Ramírez Codex (a.k.a. Tovar Codex) depict apparent Classical Western columns outside a Mexica temple?	3
How did Medieval people make fires?	3
I understand that the banning of civilian gun use in most Western countries is fairly recent. During the first half of the 19th century, was the US's attitude toward guns unique in the West the way that it is today?	3
Depending on the tradition one believes, Siddhartha Gautama was either a contemporary of Socrates or lived about a century earlier. Did awareness of Buddhism ever spread to Greece in antiquity?	2
Where and when did the archetypal European Medieval castle originate? Was it at all consciously based on the earlier Roman castrum?	2
Why did catchy and upbeat US presidential campaign jingles like "I like Ike" and "Kennedy for Me" disappear?	2
When did Scotland cease to have a Catholic majority?	2
Following the English Reformation, how did English Protestant communities deal with churches and other sites that might be of interest to continental Catholic pilgrims (e.g., Canterbury Cathedral)? Did they ban such pilgrims from visiting? Grudgingly tolerate them? Attempt to profit off them?	2
In 1968, was there any discomfort among GOP members about Nixon running after having already been an unsuccessful Republican presidential nominee right years earlier?	2