/u/JJVMT's posts
How seriously do historians take the theory that it was not the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, but rather a tribe called the Belgae who brought Germanic languages to the British Isles, and that these Belgae did it much earlier?
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Given the popular image of Sparta as too martial to concern itself with other areas of culture, were there any Ancient Spartan philosophers or literati whose work survives today?
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Salsa music is popular in Mexico, so why has Mexico had very few salsa musicians of its own? (3rd attempt)
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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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Some time following the end of WWII, Germany rightly came to see Hitler as someone whom no credible or decent person should admire. How has Spain's treatment of Franco since his death compared (obviously to the extent that this can be discussed in accordance with the 20-year rule)?
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At R. Budd Dwyer's 1987 press conference which ended in his unfortunate public suicide, he spoke positively of the ACLU. Was this unusual among Republicans then? If not, when did the ACLU become almost universally disliked by Republicans?
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In the 1990s, both the UK Labour Party and the US Democratic Party shifted toward the political center. Were there any global causes underlying this parallel shift for these two traditionally (center-)left parties, or was it purely coincidental? (2nd attempt)
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Salsa music is popular in Mexico, so why has Mexico had very few salsa musicians of its own? (2nd attempt)
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Why was Prince singing about "party[ing] like it's 1999" in 1982? Was fear of a Y2K disaster really already a thing by then?
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