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I recall Marilyn Manson was popularly treated as a scapegoat for the Columbine shooting in some circles in '99. Where did the idea that he might be somehow responsible come from, and how did it spread?
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What was the official reaction of the Japanese government to the US internment of Japanese-Americans and Japanese citizens living in the US? Was there any sort of post-war program to allow Japanese citizens to return and to allow US-born Japanese-Americans to start a new life in Japan?
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By the time of the Great Schism (1054), did Catholics and Orthodox Christians consider each other heretics, excommunicates, or somehow false Christians?
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Since I'm from the only US state named after a president (Washington), I'm wondering, was there ever serious talk of naming another western state, for example, Lincoln or Jefferson?
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Nowadays, it seems neo-Nazis like to idealize Vikings as pure Aryan supermen. Do we know how actual Viking-era Norse people conceived of race and what they thought of people from different climes who looked different from themselves?
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AMLO, Mexico's new president elect, has often been likened to Hugo Chávez by his right-wing detractors. Was his predecessor, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, similarly likened to Fidel Castro by his own right-wing detractors?
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Did the American legal profession ever have the division between barristers and solicitors that exists in the UK today? Or is that division one that developed in the UK later than American Independence?
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What happened to catchy, upbeat US presidential campaign jingles like "I Like Ike" and "Kennedy for Me"?
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