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According to books I read as a child, the 1857 Rebellion in India was sparked by the use of pig and cow fat in the grease for rifle cartridges, offending Muslim and Hindu troops, respectively. Were these greases used? Did they cause controversy? And how significant was it in kicking things off?
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Spaghetti Westerns were famously usually made by Italian leftists; did these films find much popularity in the Eastern bloc as a result? Indeed, did the USSR and its satellite states have their own Westerns?
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The CCP under Mao apparently introduced Traditional Chinese Medicine in its modern form with intent to replace it with 'Western' evidence-based medicine over time, yet TCM remains broadly popular. Did the latter part of the plan just not succeed, or are there other reasons for TCM's resilience?
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What did the ideology and practice of rulership in the Zulu Kingdom look like? What entitled a king (or queen?) to rule and what were they expected to provide for their subjects? How much was drawn from existing regional traditions, and how much was innovated specifically by the Zulu kingdom?
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The idea of the 'Sinicisation' (becoming Chinese) of the Manchus during the Qing Dynasty is no longer particularly accepted by historians of the period. But what of earlier conquest dynasties like the Mongol Yuan or the Xianbei Northern Wei? Has there been a shift there as well?
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AskHistorians Podcast Episode 202 - The Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Online Three Kingdoms Discourse with /u/Dongzhou3kingdoms
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Freemasonry features heavily in some of Rudyard Kipling's most famous 'India Stories', including 'The Man Who Would be King' and 'Kim', but how prevalent were Freemasonry and Masonic institutions in British India, and what sorts of public activities did Masons in India get up to?
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Apparently, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth introduced what wiki calls "the first codified constitution in modern European history" in 1791, 19 years after the beginning of the Partitionings. What did this constitution aim to achieve, and why did it come when it did?
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In 1868, the Emperor Meiji's 'Kami and Buddhas Separation Edict' mandated a firm division between Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples, which had previously overlapped. What lay behind this decision? How, and how effectively, was it enforced? And how did it impact religion in Japan?
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