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Why do many modern Krampus masks look more similar to the faces of 80s/90s horror film demons than to their more traditional counterparts?
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From my understanding about pre-1960s US party politics, there was seemingly more variation between regions than between parties (e.g. Southern Democrats had more in common with Southern Republicans than with Northern Democrats). Is that true? If so, what distinguished different parties in a region?
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Modern Krampus masks, to my eyes, seem to owe at least as much to latex Halloween masks and 80s horror film demons as they do to genuine old Germanic folklore. When did such masks originate and how have they evolved over time?
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Mexican independence hero Miguel Hidalgo reportedly shouted "Long live Ferdinand VII!" 207 years ago this week. Was his goal for New Spain to remain a Spanish colony but with more direct royal oversight?
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Did the Protestant Reformation elicit a more conciliatory attitude between the Catholic and Orthodox churches?
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Did the Spanish conquest of the Canary Islands follow a course similar to that of the later conquest of the Americas? Was the former used at all as a conscious blueprint for the latter?
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To what extent were British colonists in North America viewing Native Americans through tropes that previously arose from English contact with the (Highland) Scots and Irish?
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If Western European nobles from the Early Middle Ages to about 1800 deemed work to be beneath them, how did they obtain new income? I doubt that even the most illustrious families could have stayed rich for more than a few generations without new income to offset their wonted lavish expenditures.
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