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While most other 1790's English novels have fairly modern capitalization, M.G. Lewis's The Monk (1796) has Words in Uppercase for pure Emphasis like earlier Eighteenth Century Novels (ok, enough demonstration). Why would he do this? Wouldn't his readers have found this highly antiquated?
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How did Mayahana Buddhism become the main variety in Vietnam despite the dominance of Theravada Buddhism in the rest of the Indo-China region?
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Why did the courtroom dress of English barristers and judges apparently cease to be updated some time in the 18th century (with wigs and all)?
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Ashkenazi Jews developed their own High German dialect (Yiddish); Sephardic Jews developed their own Castilian dialect (Ladino). Did Roman Jews develop their own dialect of Latin?
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When and why did the wealth gap between Northern and Southern Italy develop? Was the inverse ever the case?
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In the 1988 US presidential election, did Michael Dukakis's status as the first non-Northern-European-descended party frontrunner negatively affect his chances of winning? Did his opponents ever use his Greek heritage to paint him as an "other"?
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In 1984, why did the Democrats choose Walter Mondale of all people, the VP of a President with a landslide loss four years before, as their presidential candidate? Was it a deliberate sacrifice of a weak candidate in an election they saw no chance of winning to keep him from coming back in 1988?
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