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What were relations like between Syriac Christians and other Christian minorities in the Ottoman Empire?
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W. S. Gilbert was inspired to write The Mikado (1885) thanks to the Knightsbridge Japanese Village, a travelling exhibition of Japanese culture employing over 100 Japanese men and women. What do we know of their perspective on the whole affair, and/or those of people in Japan?
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How would spectators at the Panhellenic Games know who was competing? Would there be lists of names put up? Would there be announcers of some sort?
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Ravenna was capital of the Western Roman Empire from 402-455, while the Eastern Roman Empire's capital was at Constantinople for most of its existence, yet both entities called themselves 'Rome'. When, why and how did the state entity of Rome cease to be centred on the actual city of Rome?
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How were the territories controlled by military orders like the Teutonic and Livonian Orders or the Knights of St. John administered?
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In ‘The Mikado’, Pooh-Bah declares that he can trace his ancestry ‘back to a protoplasmal atomic globule.’ How well understood was the origin of life in 1885, and how widely?
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The Clint Eastwood film 'Unforgiven' prominently features 'English Bob', a British gunslinger who, according to dialogue, 'works for the railroad shooting Chinamen'. How much of this was plausible – the European immigrant gunslinger, the railroad hiring hitmen, and the specifically racist targeting?
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