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'What's the deal with airline food?'. If I were to be watching a play in Elizabethian England, what joke would be their counter part to the cliche bad joke that will instantly produce groans like the one I mentioned?

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In the US, the elections of 1800 and 1932 are to be considered realignment elections. During the Roman Republic were there any elections that we can easily call 'realignment elections' as well?

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The 1992 US Presidential election broke the trend of New England and California voting for the Republican Party, and these states switched over to the Democratic Party. Why? Was it shift in ideologies between the two parties? Changing demographics?

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In "Batman Begins"(2005), Alfred said that Wayne Manor has been in the family for 6 generations, a sign that the Wayne family is old money. In the 1940's and 1950's, were the Wayne's depicted as old or new money?

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Today fanfiction is popular hobby, but during the Victorian era were there any signs of what we would consider fanfiction? And if yes, were there any notable social circles?

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When the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad canonized the Romanov's in 1981, what was the reaction in the USSR?

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'What's the deal with airline food?'. If I were to be watching a play in Elizabethian England, what joke would be their counter part to the cliche bad joke that will instantly produce groans like the one I mentioned?	767	AskHistorians
In the US, the elections of 1800 and 1932 are to be considered realignment elections. During the Roman Republic were there any elections that we can easily call 'realignment elections' as well?	764	AskHistorians
The 1992 US Presidential election broke the trend of New England and California voting for the Republican Party, and these states switched over to the Democratic Party. Why? Was it shift in ideologies between the two parties? Changing demographics?	266	AskHistorians
In "Batman Begins"(2005), Alfred said that Wayne Manor has been in the family for 6 generations, a sign that the Wayne family is old money. In the 1940's and 1950's, were the Wayne's depicted as old or new money?	78	AskHistorians
Today fanfiction is popular hobby, but during the Victorian era were there any signs of what we would consider fanfiction? And if yes, were there any notable social circles?	67	AskHistorians
When the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad canonized the Romanov's in 1981, what was the reaction in the USSR?	13	AskHistorians