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Frankenstein (1818) and Dracula (1897) are often paired together as some of the greatest English-language horror novels of the 19th century (if not all time), despite 79 years between them. When did this pairing begin? Is it wholly a product of Universal Studios adapting them 9 months apart in 1931?

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Thomas Paine and Alexander Hamilton were prominent American Independence figures born outside what would become the US. Would their citizenship have been considered different from someone born in the 13 colonies? Were they eligible to run for President?

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Why did Italian-Americans constitute (or seem to constitute) a disproportionately high percentage of the classic crooners?

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How well known was Ross Perot to the American public before he launched what would turn about to be one of the most successful independent US presidential campaigns in 1992?

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Why was Francisco Franco permitted to rule so many decades longer than his right-wing authoritarian counterparts in other European countries?

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Why did so many Lebanese and Syrian migrants settle in Mexico?

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As cars became a thing in the early 20th century, did legislatures quickly update outdated traffic laws meant for horses and carriages, or did they dally, perhaps thinking cars were just a passing fad that would be a waste of time to legislate on?

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Is it true that John Cabot rather than Columbus was popularly considered as the Western "discoverer of America" in the US until Italian-Americans strongly lobbied for Columbus to be treated as such to cement their place in the American national tradition?

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Blackbeard, Captain Kidd, Captain Morgan... It seems all the big names of the Golden Age of Piracy are British. Was Atlantic piracy in the late 18th/early 19th c. really overwhelmingly British, or has an Anglo-Americentric view of history obscured the participation of pirates from other nations?

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Did foreign Catholic devotees of Thomas Becket continue to make pilgrimages to Canterbury Cathedral after Britain broke with Rome? If so, were Anglican locals bothered by this?

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Frankenstein (1818) and Dracula (1897) are often paired together as some of the greatest English-language horror novels of the 19th century (if not all time), despite 79 years between them. When did this pairing begin? Is it wholly a product of Universal Studios adapting them 9 months apart in 1931?	9	AskHistorians
Thomas Paine and Alexander Hamilton were prominent American Independence figures born outside what would become the US. Would their citizenship have been considered different from someone born in the 13 colonies? Were they eligible to run for President?	9	AskHistorians
Why did Italian-Americans constitute (or seem to constitute) a disproportionately high percentage of the classic crooners?	9	AskHistorians
How well known was Ross Perot to the American public before he launched what would turn about to be one of the most successful independent US presidential campaigns in 1992?	9	AskHistorians
Why was Francisco Franco permitted to rule so many decades longer than his right-wing authoritarian counterparts in other European countries?	9	AskHistorians
Why did so many Lebanese and Syrian migrants settle in Mexico?	9	AskHistorians
As cars became a thing in the early 20th century, did legislatures quickly update outdated traffic laws meant for horses and carriages, or did they dally, perhaps thinking cars were just a passing fad that would be a waste of time to legislate on?	9	AskHistorians
Is it true that John Cabot rather than Columbus was popularly considered as the Western "discoverer of America" in the US until Italian-Americans strongly lobbied for Columbus to be treated as such to cement their place in the American national tradition?	9	AskHistorians
Blackbeard, Captain Kidd, Captain Morgan... It seems all the big names of the Golden Age of Piracy are British. Was Atlantic piracy in the late 18th/early 19th c. really overwhelmingly British, or has an Anglo-Americentric view of history obscured the participation of pirates from other nations?	9	AskHistorians
Did foreign Catholic devotees of Thomas Becket continue to make pilgrimages to Canterbury Cathedral after Britain broke with Rome? If so, were Anglican locals bothered by this?	9	AskHistorians