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The bishop in modern chess evolved from the elephant in Indian chaturanga, while in Chinese xiangqi, the piece that moves like the chaturanga elephant is called an elephant for one side but a minister for the other. How did elephants become ministers and bishops on opposite sides of Eurasia?	2
Was there ever an attempt to build a contiguous wall across the Isthmus of Corinth?	2
After the adoption of Christianity in the Roman Empire, did deified emperors like Augustus and Vespasian continue to be referred to as 'Divus', or if not did they still retain some special elevation compared to other deceased emperors?	2
What led to the Covenanters siding with Charles II, having been Parliamentary allies during the First English Civil War?	2
Did the publication of 'The War of the Worlds' in 1898 significantly affect the style and reception of subsequent invasion novels?	2
From 1979 to 1982, Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, served as Foreign Secretary under Margaret Thatcher while also being part of the House of Lords. Were there concerns at the time that as a peer, Carrington was not accountable to the Commons and could not be questioned by MPs?	2
Is there any connection between the city of Taiping, Malaysia and the Taiping Rebellion?	2
How were Chinggis (Genghis) Khan and the Mongol Empire more generally depicted during Soviet rule in Mongolia?	2
Was there a significant opposition on religious grounds to the British invasion of Ethiopia/Abyssinia in 1868, given that the Ethiopians were also Christian?	2
I've generally heard that the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate was the end result of the Japanese encounter with Western imperialism, but what weight do historians give to domestic factors and to issues predating the opening of Japan in the 1850s?	2

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