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"Vade Retro Satana" and Other Wards Against Evil

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Western movies seem to have been a staple of American cinema from The Great Train Robbery (1903) to somewhere in the 1970s or 80s (with outliers like Unforgiven). What happened?

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Would the idea of a "good witch" be foreign to US audiences watching The Wizard of Oz when it premiered or earlier when the book was published?

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Have Dixville Notch and other towns with a very small number of voters always been able to vote at midnight?

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How did a person's FICO score become such a dominant factor in decisions from lending money to renting an apartment?

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How much did the experience of the French Resistance against the Nazis inform French strategy against insurgencies in places like Algeria and Vietnam?

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Just how close did the USA and USSR come to attacking each other with nuclear weapons during the Cold War?

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During the occupations of Germany and Japan, what was the currency used to rebuild? For example, were contractors doing the rebuilding in Tokyo paid in the US Dollar or Yen? Same for Germany, though I imagine this is even trickier given the multinational occupation.

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What was a typical university core curriculum ca. 1670-1710?

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Does Wood drastically underestimate the impact of social distinctions predicated upon wealth, especially inherited wealth?

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"Vade Retro Satana" and Other Wards Against Evil	2	AskHistorians
Western movies seem to have been a staple of American cinema from The Great Train Robbery (1903) to somewhere in the 1970s or 80s (with outliers like Unforgiven). What happened?	2	AskHistorians
Would the idea of a "good witch" be foreign to US audiences watching The Wizard of Oz when it premiered or earlier when the book was published?	2	AskHistorians
Have Dixville Notch and other towns with a very small number of voters always been able to vote at midnight?	2	AskHistorians
How did a person's FICO score become such a dominant factor in decisions from lending money to renting an apartment?	2	AskHistorians
How much did the experience of the French Resistance against the Nazis inform French strategy against insurgencies in places like Algeria and Vietnam?	2	AskHistorians
Just how close did the USA and USSR come to attacking each other with nuclear weapons during the Cold War?	2	AskHistorians
During the occupations of Germany and Japan, what was the currency used to rebuild? For example, were contractors doing the rebuilding in Tokyo paid in the US Dollar or Yen? Same for Germany, though I imagine this is even trickier given the multinational occupation.	2	AskHistorians
What was a typical university core curriculum ca. 1670-1710?	2	AskHistorians
Does Wood drastically underestimate the impact of social distinctions predicated upon wealth, especially inherited wealth?	2	AskHistorians