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What, if any, was the relationship between the 80's HIV/AIDS pandemic and the rebirth of vampire fiction?

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Why did the word "Gargantuan" stick around instead of any other giant from literature?

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Why do we need to translate old writings like the Icelandic Sagas? Wouldn't the further copies already be "slowly translating" it as the language shifts?

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Throughout history, in places where people have lighter complexions, paleness has been associated with beauty - or at least feminine beauty. Do we have register of something like that in places where people have dark complexions?

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Why did the first battles of Alfred the Great against the Vikings take place during winter?

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Why are so many Arthurian retellings from the 1980's?

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How were people not constantly hypothermic from bathing in rivers? Are there medieval bathing towels?

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Why didn't the Norse contact with the American indigenous peoples result in disease spreading too?

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Was there ethnic / racial conflict between the Anglo-Normans and the Celtic Welsh and Scots peoples?

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It seems to me that so many important things came or are associated with the steppes, but I don't ever see this mentioned. What about the steppes is so special? Is this perception even real?

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What, if any, was the relationship between the 80's HIV/AIDS pandemic and the rebirth of vampire fiction?	1
Why did the word "Gargantuan" stick around instead of any other giant from literature?	1
Why do we need to translate old writings like the Icelandic Sagas? Wouldn't the further copies already be "slowly translating" it as the language shifts?	1
Throughout history, in places where people have lighter complexions, paleness has been associated with beauty - or at least feminine beauty. Do we have register of something like that in places where people have dark complexions?	1
Why did the first battles of Alfred the Great against the Vikings take place during winter?	1
Why are so many Arthurian retellings from the 1980's?	1
How were people not constantly hypothermic from bathing in rivers? Are there medieval bathing towels?	1
Why didn't the Norse contact with the American indigenous peoples result in disease spreading too?	1
Was there ethnic / racial conflict between the Anglo-Normans and the Celtic Welsh and Scots peoples?	1
It seems to me that so many important things came or are associated with the steppes, but I don't ever see this mentioned. What about the steppes is so special? Is this perception even real?	0