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Were helots ethnically distinct from Spartan citizens? Did they speak Greek? Were they considered Greek?

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What's the farthest back in time a modern-day person of a given nationality could go without being offended by the odor of the average person of the same nationality?

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"Oh God!" How long has shouting a deity's name been associated with pleasurable sexual activity?

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What kind of relationship did Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lázaro Cárdenas have as neighboring heads of state who were both left-leaning reformers?

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IIRC, Florida was part of New Spain at the time of the Mexican War of Independence. Why then didn't Florida become part of Mexico?

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Well-known is the US's active intervention in 20th-century Latin American politics, such as in Chile in the 1970s. Did the US intervene in the politics of its neighbor Mexico in the 20th century? If so, how?

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Is Tudor architecture considered the final development of English Gothic architecture? It seems to me to have much more in common with Late Medieval architecture than with the more Neo-Classical prodigy houses common in the second half of the 16th century. (2nd attempt)

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How quickly did Scotland abandon Catholicism compared to England following Henry VIII's break with Rome?

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At what point in the 20th c. did Spain achieve a standard of living on par with that of other Western European countries?

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I've heard that the Westminster Parliament system evolved into something resembling its present form in the 1830s. What was it like on the eve of American Independence in 1776 and when the US Constitution took effect in 1789?

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Were helots ethnically distinct from Spartan citizens? Did they speak Greek? Were they considered Greek?	1
What's the farthest back in time a modern-day person of a given nationality could go without being offended by the odor of the average person of the same nationality?	1
"Oh God!" How long has shouting a deity's name been associated with pleasurable sexual activity?	1
What kind of relationship did Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lázaro Cárdenas have as neighboring heads of state who were both left-leaning reformers?	1
IIRC, Florida was part of New Spain at the time of the Mexican War of Independence. Why then didn't Florida become part of Mexico?	1
Well-known is the US's active intervention in 20th-century Latin American politics, such as in Chile in the 1970s. Did the US intervene in the politics of its neighbor Mexico in the 20th century? If so, how?	1
Is Tudor architecture considered the final development of English Gothic architecture? It seems to me to have much more in common with Late Medieval architecture than with the more Neo-Classical prodigy houses common in the second half of the 16th century. (2nd attempt)	1
How quickly did Scotland abandon Catholicism compared to England following Henry VIII's break with Rome?	1
At what point in the 20th c. did Spain achieve a standard of living on par with that of other Western European countries?	1
I've heard that the Westminster Parliament system evolved into something resembling its present form in the 1830s. What was it like on the eve of American Independence in 1776 and when the US Constitution took effect in 1789?	1