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Japan's military contribution to the First World War seems to have been limited to mainly naval action in the Pacific in 1914 and in the Mediterranean in 1917-18. Was the deployment of Japanese ground forces in Europe or the Middle East ever considered? If so, why did it not take place?
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In the Dad's Army episode 'Shooting Pains', (1968), Captain Mainwaring claims that one of his troops cannot speak to the Major because he's a Polish émigré named 'Paderewski Shostakovich'. Would the composers Paderewski and Shostakovich have been household names in 1940s or 1960s Britain?
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How did Queen gain such a substantial Japanese following that within two years of their first album in 1973, they were able to release a single, 'Teo Toriatte', which was sung partly in Japanese and made it into the top 50 on the charts in Japan?
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In 1916, Life Magazine published a map depicting North America if the Central Powers won the Great War, with the US partitioned between Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and... Japan. Except Japan was an Allied power. What might have led to the map's creators including it among the victors?
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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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