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How accurately does Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" reflect 1640s Massachusetts life and culture?

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As the Eurodance philosopher Haddaway once asked... "What is love"?

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How did the Suppression of the Jesuits, and their subsequent expulsion, influence missions and surrounding Native American communities?

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Do urban legends about coded architecture and the Underground Railroad have any basis in reality?

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Why do many old houses along the New England coast display pineapple iconography?

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What are the recent advances on the timing, impetus, and repercussions of the Dene/Athabaskan migration to the U.S. Southwest?

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What was the cultural and historic context for the 1987-1991 Singing Revolution in the Baltic States?

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Why fainting couches?

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Jackie Robinson broke the baseball color barrier, but how did integration unfold for other professional sports leagues?

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In 1895 Robert Smalls said, "Since the reconstruction times, 53,000 negroes have been killed in the South." How do we compile evidence of systemic violence/terrorism in the years following the Civil War, and what effect did this violence have on the unfinished work of Reconstruction?

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How accurately does Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" reflect 1640s Massachusetts life and culture?	47
As the Eurodance philosopher Haddaway once asked... "What is love"?	47
How did the Suppression of the Jesuits, and their subsequent expulsion, influence missions and surrounding Native American communities?	46
Do urban legends about coded architecture and the Underground Railroad have any basis in reality?	44
Why do many old houses along the New England coast display pineapple iconography?	41
What are the recent advances on the timing, impetus, and repercussions of the Dene/Athabaskan migration to the U.S. Southwest?	41
What was the cultural and historic context for the 1987-1991 Singing Revolution in the Baltic States?	40
Why fainting couches?	40
Jackie Robinson broke the baseball color barrier, but how did integration unfold for other professional sports leagues?	36
In 1895 Robert Smalls said, "Since the reconstruction times, 53,000 negroes have been killed in the South." How do we compile evidence of systemic violence/terrorism in the years following the Civil War, and what effect did this violence have on the unfinished work of Reconstruction?	36