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The labor movement and Civil Rights era in the United States produced a broad and long-lasting legacy of music and art informed by progressive politics. Besides Confederate monuments were there popular explicitly segregationist and "pro-boss" artistic genres?
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How did the world come to have a common culture of international diplomacy given that, for example, Eastern Asia had one or more long-time independent diplomatic traditions while Europe/West Asia/the Mediterranean had its own age old set of traditions & norms?
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When did "mass genre-fication" start happening? Modern fashion, literature, music, etc. is divided by critics & writers into hundreds of genres & styles each. Would this state of affairs be recognizable to a premodern European critic?
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What were common hobbies for urbanites in the last few decades of Imperial Russia? In what way were they gendered? What would happen to someone socially if they participated in a hobby that didn't match their assigned gender role?
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How did modern policing develop in Japan and Korea? Did Japanese/Korean police forces adopt late 19th/early 20th c. European practices by large degrees or did they mostly refine and update their own traditions, practices, and norms?
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How do birds that spend long periods of time cruising at high altitude, especially bare-headed vultures and the like, protect their skin and vision from UV damage?
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For almost 20 years now I've been reading articles and opeds that refer to a vague "Russian political/cultural infatuation with strongmen/authoritarianism" (even more so recently because of current events) going at least as far back as Alexander III. Is there any substance to this at all?
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How were old kinda imperialist "darkest Africa"/Lost World type films (with modern day dinosaurs being hidden away in S. American or African jungles) received in colonial countries in the mid-20th century?
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