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Queen Victoria is supposed to never have actually uttered the phrase, 'we are not amused', but it has become indelibly associated with her in popular culture. When and how did Victoria come to be associated with this turn of phrase?
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Did ancient civilians get PTSD? What do we know of the psychological effects of war on noncombatants, and how they dealt with them?
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How far was Western engagement with Japan actually a cause of the fall of the Shogunate (Bakumatsu) in 1868, as opposed to a catalyst for existing forces within Japan or even just incidental to it all?
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At the time of independence, the population of British Malaya was a mixture of 'native' Malays and those of Chinese and Indian descent. How far had the colonial administration discriminated between the major population groups, such as in terms of law?
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How did maple syrup come to be the quintessentially Canadian staple it is today? Is its history largely post-colonisation, or was it already seeing widespread use in First Nations cuisines?
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How much resistance was there to American overlordship of the Philippines, and what form did it take? How did anti-American movements interact with the Japanese occupation in 1941-5? And how much did formal independence in 1946 owe to pre-war developments?
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Why did the remnants of the Tokugawa Shoogunate opt to establish the Ezo Republic in 1869 rather than explicitly claiming to be the Shogunate's continuation?
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