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In 1871, the British Army, which had been using breechloading field artillery since 1859, reverted to using muzzle-loaders. What lay behind this change, especially given the demonstrated effectiveness of Prussian breechloading guns in the Franco-Prussian War the year before?
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When did it cease to become a given that the average English reader had a working knowledge of French? Many of my older books contain entire sentences of untranslated French, which the reader appears to be expected to be able to understand.
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Why did Malyasia and Indonesia (and Brunei) end up as separate states after decolonisation, rather than a single state? Both regions have Malay as a lingua franca, long histories of connection, and a shared border on Borneo. Was it just continuity from the colonial period, or was there more at work?
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Was erotic shunga celebrating military victory unique to the Russo-Japanese War, or did it have older origins? In addition, did this practice continue into the World Wars? NSFW
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At the beginning of the Seven Years' War, the British colonies in North America had 2 million inhabitants, the French only 60,000. Why was there such a discrepancy?
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What made Hawaii a popular destination for Chinese immigration in the late 19th century? Apparently nearly 50,000 Chinese men, women and children, mostly from the south, migrated to Hawaii before the Geary Act in 1992; today nearly a third of people in Hawaii have at least some Chinese ancestry.
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Greek cities founded colonies throughout the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, but did these colonies have any obligations, be they political, economic or military, to their founders?
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In the film 'Hail, Caesar!' (2016), there is one scene in which a Protestant, a Catholic and an Orthodox priest and a Jewish rabbi are consulted about the titular film-within-a-film's depiction of Jesus. How far did film studios in the 50s actually try to avoid offending religious sensibilities?
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