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Has human appreciation of the "beauty" of landscapes and environments been ever present in the written record (outside of strictly record-keeping) or is it a trend that developed during identifiable periods of time across cultures?	5
When did Irish people in Ireland start thinking of emigrants as "Irish-Americans" and not "Irish in America" (or substitute "-Canadians", "-Australians", or anywhere in the diaspora) and how did they talk and write about it?	5
I often hear that medieval to early modern aristocrats often felt more affinity w/ other nobles from foreign countries than peasants from their own. Did this hold true in cross-cultural/ideological contexts? e.g. Catholic aristocrat to Orthodox aristocrat, Christian noble to Muslim noble, etc.?	5
Where were the (Western) "centers of learning" for science in the 19th century and how did scholars from the periphery get read? If Darwin had been from a small town in, say, Argentina, Sweden, or the U.S. could he have gotten published/read in London?	5
Did the rise of right-wing extremism in the 1990s' U.S. have any parallels in Canada? Was there a significant Canadian cultural or law enforcement response to the Oklahoma City bombing towards their own domestic Christian or right-wing fringe groups?	5
From the late middle ages until now how seriously have Muslim populations held belief that djinn actually exist?	5
When and why did states start taking on the burden of training professionals? It seems that for much of the medieval and early modern period every spy was just a recruited trader/traveler, every sailor a recruited fisherman, every civic leader just a recruited aristocrat.	5
What was the interaction of strategists and foreign policy planners with professional historians in the 2nd half of the 20th century?	5
The genocidal Yugoslav Wars & the country's violent breakup are often described as an inevitability held in check by the authoritarian rule of Josip Tito. But a decade passed between his death & the first Yugoslav War. Was secession inevitable? Why did the first war happen in 1991 & not 1980?	5
During the early colonial period what was the state of multilingualism in the Indian subcontinent especially the most densely populated parts? Was everyone bi- and trilingual (or more)? How'd things change with eventual British consolidation?	5

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