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To what extent is the Black Death present in fourteenth or fifteenth century English literature?

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Why doesn't Mexico have the office of Vice President?

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How old is the idea held by some American evangelical Christians that Christianity is not a religion, but a "relationship with God," and that religion means "false belief system"?

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What's the origin of the new year's tradition of depicting the new year as an infant and the old year as a hoary, bearded old man? Does it pre-exist newspaper cartoons?

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All four of the five US presidents of the Revolutionary generation who had a university education got their degrees at American universities. Were they looked down upon by their European contemporaries for not having studied at established, centuries-old European institutions instead?

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I recall my 8th grade history teacher claiming that there were a small number of Africans who voluntarily migrated to British North America as free people during the 17th c. Is this true?

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I assume most of the earliest Hollywood actors came from a theatre background in some capacity. Were they usually from less respectable theatre genres? Was there a sense that Hollywood was first peopled by the "dregs" of the stage who had nothing to lose?

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What were teddy-bears called before Teddy Roosevelt? Did plush bear dolls even exist before his name was lent to them?

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In Friedrich Schiller's 1789 novel The Ghost-Seer, a conman uses electricity to power a device to fake the appearance of a ghost, which is a much more modern use of electricity than I had expected for the period. What uses of electricity existed before 1800?

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How was Lee Harvey Oswald able to return to the US after having defected to the USSR?

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To what extent is the Black Death present in fourteenth or fifteenth century English literature?	3	AskHistorians
Why doesn't Mexico have the office of Vice President?	3	AskHistorians
How old is the idea held by some American evangelical Christians that Christianity is not a religion, but a "relationship with God," and that religion means "false belief system"?	3	AskHistorians
What's the origin of the new year's tradition of depicting the new year as an infant and the old year as a hoary, bearded old man? Does it pre-exist newspaper cartoons?	3	AskHistorians
All four of the five US presidents of the Revolutionary generation who had a university education got their degrees at American universities. Were they looked down upon by their European contemporaries for not having studied at established, centuries-old European institutions instead?	3	AskHistorians
I recall my 8th grade history teacher claiming that there were a small number of Africans who voluntarily migrated to British North America as free people during the 17th c. Is this true?	3	AskHistorians
I assume most of the earliest Hollywood actors came from a theatre background in some capacity. Were they usually from less respectable theatre genres? Was there a sense that Hollywood was first peopled by the "dregs" of the stage who had nothing to lose?	3	AskHistorians
What were teddy-bears called before Teddy Roosevelt? Did plush bear dolls even exist before his name was lent to them?	3	AskHistorians
In Friedrich Schiller's 1789 novel The Ghost-Seer, a conman uses electricity to power a device to fake the appearance of a ghost, which is a much more modern use of electricity than I had expected for the period. What uses of electricity existed before 1800?	3	AskHistorians
How was Lee Harvey Oswald able to return to the US after having defected to the USSR?	3	AskHistorians