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How and why did Spain come to have so many nearly uniform, blocky, mostly residential brick buildings?
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Where can I find information on the age of buildings on different streets of Mexico City's historic downtown?
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As African and Afrodescendent slaves in the Americas converted to Christianity, how was their continued enslavement justified?
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Well known is Russia's cultural Westernization under Peter the Great. How did high-status men of other Eastern European countries dress in the 18th c.? Did they adopt Western European dress with wigs/ringlets, knee-breeches, etc., or use more traditionally Eastern European attire?
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My professor of Ancient Greek history said that the Greeks were disturbed by the Persian custom of drinking wine undiluted by water. Did attitudes of Greeks in Antiquity about drinking unmixed wine vary across time and place?
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Both American and British lawyers (or at least English lawyers, specifically) use "v." to signal the parties in a court case (e.g., Roe v. Wade), but the former say "V" or "versus," while the latter say "and" or "against." Which convention is older, and when did the divide emerge?
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With the rapid "freelancification" of labor this past decade, problems have arisen from dated laws that focus little on situations outside long-term employer-employee relationships. Did a similar period of incongruency between labor laws and labor realities occur during the Industrial Revolution?
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Was Kurt Cobain good at managing his sudden wealth? I assume he wasn't too bad at it, since he was never in tabloids over finances like his contemporary, MC Hammer.
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