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The French Second Empire fought a war with Austria over Italian unification in 1859, but then supported the installation of an Austrian Habsburg, Maximilian, as Emperor of Mexico from 1864 onward. What led to this shift in French policy regarding the Habsburgs?
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The Spanish colonies in the Americas seem to have seen quite a lot of inter-ethnic mingling, yet the Philippines, despite a similar timeframe of colonisation, seem not to have. Why wasn't there as much mixing going on in the Southeast Asian colonies?
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What motivated the Shōgitai and other pro-Tokugawa troops at Ueno to keep fighting after Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrendered in the spring of 1868?
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Why did Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager have a shorter first season, but then 26-episode seasons for the rest of their runs? Also, what was playing in the meantime?
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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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The Taiwanese and Japanese governments seem to have generally had quite warm relations, but how has the general public in Taiwan viewed its colonial past? Is there a noticeable difference in alignment with party or linguistic distinctions?
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According to Wikipedia, the Garibaldi biscuit was 'first manufactured by the Bermondsey biscuit company Peek Freans in 1861 following the recruitment of Jonathan Carr, one of the great biscuit makers of Carlisle.' Why was Carr's recruitment important? Why was a London company after a Carlisle baker?
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