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The BBC's 'All Creatures Great and Small' depicts an interracial couple living in Yorkshire, England in the 1930s. What sort of de jure and de facto discrimination would they likely have faced in that time and place?	785
Why did the U.S. Congress choose the famously prickly John Adams, a man who once described himself as "obnoxious" didn't speak French, as Commissioner to France during important diplomatic negotiations in 1777?	61
Was Philippe Égalité, the Duke of Orléans, in a position to slow or stop the French Revolution when it landed on a constitutional monarchy, given his royal stature?	35
In the 1980 U.S. Presidential election, could the Republican Party have "put a watermelon on a broomstick" and beaten Jimmy Carter?	15
How much was King Charles I's bungled attempt to rescue Thomas Wentworth from the Tower of London a major cause of Wentworth's eventual conviction and execution?	7
How long has "the decade" been considered a key unit of cultural time?	5
In 1818, Chilean leader Bernardo O'Higgins commissioned British naval officer Thomas Cochrane to lead the Chilean Navy. Did O'Higgins' Irish heritage and Cochrane's Scottish descent factor into the two men's relationship at all?	4
What was the relationship like between cousins Louis Philippe and King Charles X of France after one took the throne from the other during the July Revolution?	1
Could Philippe Égalité, the Duke of Orléans, have slowed or stopped the French Revolution when it landed on a constitutional monarchy, or was the subsequent push toward a French republic inevitable?	1

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