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From my understanding about pre-1960s US party politics, there was seemingly more variation between regions than between parties (e.g. Southern Democrats had more in common with Southern Republicans than with Northern Democrats). Is that true? If so, what distinguished different parties in a region?

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How and when did poetry become considered an "unmanly" pursuit?

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Two questions about East/West German border crossing

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Do we know how often Vikings would return to their Scandinavian homelands versus how often they would spend the rest of their lives on the foreign shores to which they had traveled?

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How would Anglophone centenarians in 1920 have said their birth year? "Eighteen twenty," or "eighteen hundred (and) twenty"?

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Is it likely that R. Budd Dwyer, the Pennsylvania State Treasurer who shot himself on live TV in 1987 due to bribery charges, was innocent?

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Were John "Crazy Eyes" Calhoun's eyes considered crazy by his contemporaries?

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Were John "Crazy Eyes" Calhoun's eyes seen as crazy by his contemporaries?

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To what extent were British colonists in North America viewing Native Americans through tropes that previously arose from English contact with the (Highland) Scots and Irish?

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When the first car accidents were litigated, did problems result from having to rely on traffic laws made for horses and carriages? Also, how long after such accidents were the outdated traffic laws updated?

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From my understanding about pre-1960s US party politics, there was seemingly more variation between regions than between parties (e.g. Southern Democrats had more in common with Southern Republicans than with Northern Democrats). Is that true? If so, what distinguished different parties in a region?	2
How and when did poetry become considered an "unmanly" pursuit?	2
Two questions about East/West German border crossing	2
Do we know how often Vikings would return to their Scandinavian homelands versus how often they would spend the rest of their lives on the foreign shores to which they had traveled?	2
How would Anglophone centenarians in 1920 have said their birth year? "Eighteen twenty," or "eighteen hundred (and) twenty"?	2
Is it likely that R. Budd Dwyer, the Pennsylvania State Treasurer who shot himself on live TV in 1987 due to bribery charges, was innocent?	2
Were John "Crazy Eyes" Calhoun's eyes considered crazy by his contemporaries?	2
Were John "Crazy Eyes" Calhoun's eyes seen as crazy by his contemporaries?	2
To what extent were British colonists in North America viewing Native Americans through tropes that previously arose from English contact with the (Highland) Scots and Irish?	2
When the first car accidents were litigated, did problems result from having to rely on traffic laws made for horses and carriages? Also, how long after such accidents were the outdated traffic laws updated?	2