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In recent times, some Christians, particularly those of a more Evangelical orientation, say that "Christianity is not a religion." How far back in time does this go? Is it unique to the United States and to people in other countries who have joined US-dominated denominations?
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Blackbeard, Black Bart, Captain Kidd, Captain Morgan, etc... All the big names of the Golden Age of Piracy seem to be British. Was late-17th/early-18th-c. Atlantic piracy really overwhelmingly British, or have Anglo-Americentric views of that period minimized pirates of other nations? (4th attempt)
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I'm an upper-crust American man in 1830 and my son's of age to think about where to go to college. If money and grades are no issue, regarding future prospects and reputation, would I rather send him to a prestigious American university (e.g., Harvard, Yale, Princeton) or an Oxbridge one?
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As a corollary to the question about why we imagine royal crowns the way we do, what is the origin of the image of royal robes as red or purple lined at the edges with a black-speckled white fur?
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Was there ever a left-wing faction within the NSDAP that took the "socialist" and "worker" portions of the party name to heart? If so, were they less anti-Semitic than their right-wing party mates?
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TIL that, while England saw no new university from 1209 to 1826, other centers of higher education (e.g. the Inns of Court for lawyers, hospitals that trained doctors) did arise. Why have routes to high-status professions tended to be absorbed into the university system rather than stay independent?
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Was Reformation-era Germany just as religiously intolerant in its own way as Spain was at the same time under the Holy Inquisition?
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Why does the post-Conquest Ramírez Codex (a.k.a. Tovar Codex) depict apparent Classical Western columns outside a Mexica temple?
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