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The trope of a Native American burial ground turns up often enough in American horror fiction, but does it have counterparts in other places and times? Did Roman horror fiction writers describe Gaulish or Etruscan burial grounds, for instance?

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How do historians generally respond if a group is only attested in the historical record by its opponents?

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How did dinosaurs come to be the most well-known group of extinct organisms among the general public?

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How has research on the psychology of memory, which shows just how fallible our memories can be, affected how historians make use of eyewitness sources?

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When Prohibition was overturned, were the records of people in jail for dealing in alcohol expunged?

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Did the Kerala school of mathematics have any noteworthy local cultural influence, and why wasn't its work spread through some Arabian Sea trade route?

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What do we know of the Turkic peoples before their migration and expansion southward and westward?

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Does the Kurdish saying that goes something like "we have no friends but the mountains" (and its variants) go back to the 19th or the 20th century, or is it older than that?

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How did Polynesians become over-represented in American football?

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How did Bulleh Shah come to be such common subject matter in Sufi rock?

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The trope of a Native American burial ground turns up often enough in American horror fiction, but does it have counterparts in other places and times? Did Roman horror fiction writers describe Gaulish or Etruscan burial grounds, for instance?	182
How do historians generally respond if a group is only attested in the historical record by its opponents?	74
How did dinosaurs come to be the most well-known group of extinct organisms among the general public?	33
How has research on the psychology of memory, which shows just how fallible our memories can be, affected how historians make use of eyewitness sources?	8
When Prohibition was overturned, were the records of people in jail for dealing in alcohol expunged?	8
Did the Kerala school of mathematics have any noteworthy local cultural influence, and why wasn't its work spread through some Arabian Sea trade route?	7
What do we know of the Turkic peoples before their migration and expansion southward and westward?	3
Does the Kurdish saying that goes something like "we have no friends but the mountains" (and its variants) go back to the 19th or the 20th century, or is it older than that?	3
How did Polynesians become over-represented in American football?	3
How did Bulleh Shah come to be such common subject matter in Sufi rock?	2