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Two questions about East/West German border crossing

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In Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera (1986), most of the music seems to fit the period in which it takes place (1880s)... except the fabulously anachronistic title song, which wears its 1980's-ness on its sleeve. How did theatre critics at the time take this artistic decision?

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At what point in early-nineteenth-century England did long pants become more popular than knee-breeches among young men of status?

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Where and when did the archetypal European Medieval castle originate? Was it at all consciously based on the earlier Roman castrum?

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How would Anglophone centenarians in 1920 have said their birth year? "Eighteen twenty," or "eighteen hundred (and) twenty"?

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Is it likely that R. Budd Dwyer, the Pennsylvania State Treasurer who shot himself on live TV in 1987 due to bribery charges, was innocent?

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By the 18th century, was the Spanish Inquisition less strict than before? After all, one would think that its rigorousness might have been relaxed once the original ex-Muslim and ex-Jewish Catholic converts were no longer contemporaries of anyone then living.

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Were John "Crazy Eyes" Calhoun's eyes considered crazy by his contemporaries?

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At the 1988 US Vice-Presidential debate, Lloyd Bentsen got a zinger against Dan Quayle, saying that Quayle was "no Jack Kennedy" and that "Jack Kennedy was a friend of [Lloyd's]." Of course, having been dead 25 years, JFK couldn't confirm or deny Bentsen's claim. Were Bentsen and JFK really friends?

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In 1968, was there any discomfort among GOP members about Nixon running after having already been an unsuccessful Republican presidential nominee right years earlier?

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Two questions about East/West German border crossing	2	AskHistorians
In Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera (1986), most of the music seems to fit the period in which it takes place (1880s)... except the fabulously anachronistic title song, which wears its 1980's-ness on its sleeve. How did theatre critics at the time take this artistic decision?	2	AskHistorians
At what point in early-nineteenth-century England did long pants become more popular than knee-breeches among young men of status?	2	AskHistorians
Where and when did the archetypal European Medieval castle originate? Was it at all consciously based on the earlier Roman castrum?	2	AskHistorians
How would Anglophone centenarians in 1920 have said their birth year? "Eighteen twenty," or "eighteen hundred (and) twenty"?	2	AskHistorians
Is it likely that R. Budd Dwyer, the Pennsylvania State Treasurer who shot himself on live TV in 1987 due to bribery charges, was innocent?	2	AskHistorians
By the 18th century, was the Spanish Inquisition less strict than before? After all, one would think that its rigorousness might have been relaxed once the original ex-Muslim and ex-Jewish Catholic converts were no longer contemporaries of anyone then living.	2	AskHistorians
Were John "Crazy Eyes" Calhoun's eyes considered crazy by his contemporaries?	2	AskHistorians
At the 1988 US Vice-Presidential debate, Lloyd Bentsen got a zinger against Dan Quayle, saying that Quayle was "no Jack Kennedy" and that "Jack Kennedy was a friend of [Lloyd's]." Of course, having been dead 25 years, JFK couldn't confirm or deny Bentsen's claim. Were Bentsen and JFK really friends?	2	AskHistorians
In 1968, was there any discomfort among GOP members about Nixon running after having already been an unsuccessful Republican presidential nominee right years earlier?	2	AskHistorians