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On the Western Front in the First World War, infantry in the trenches were supposed to be regularly rotated between front, support and reserve trenches, but what about artillery crew? Did they generally stay put or were they rotated as well?
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'Who, or why, or which, or what,' wrote Edward Lear in the 1870s, 'is the Akond of Swat?' In his notes Lear indicates that Indian newspapers often mentioned this particular potentate, but who was he actually, and why was he important enough to be mentioned in Indian newspapers and British poetry?
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Why did Florence Foster Jenkins sing Mozart's Queen of Night aria in Italian rather than in German? Was Italian considered preferable to German for American audiences in 1944, or had an alternative Italian libretto been in use for some time already?
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There is a piece of erotic Japanese art celebrating victory in the Russo-Japanese War, in which a Japanese soldier brutally rapes a Russian. Do we know of other such images produced to commemorate victories, such as that over the Germans in WWI or during wars within Japan? NSFW
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Charles Napier is often alleged to have sent back the message 'Peccavi' (Latin for 'I have sinned') after the capture of Sindh in 1843. This story is apocryphal, of course, but what was the normal operating procedure for reporting military victories back to Britain during the Victorian period?
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The chi-rho Christogram (☧) appeared regularly in Late Roman imagery, especially, it seems, on shields, but why? How did this symbol become so popular, and when and why did it die out?
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The chi-rho Christogram (☧) appears regularly in Late Roman imagery, especially, it seems, on shields, but why? How did this symbol become so popular, and when and why did it die out?
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