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How did diplomats from a nation in revolution or suffering a coup behaved in other courts during that time, such as French diplomats during the French Revolution or Russian diplomats in 1917?
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Is “Apollo’s painless arrow” from The Odyssey a device created by Homer or a more common idea in Ancient Greece
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When we talk about a group of people moving elsewhere that's already inhabited (PIE) into Europe, Aztecs into Mexico, etc. we always word it as if they replace and outcompete the original inhabitants, but wouldn't it be more likely that the two groups merge in 95% of cases?
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What happened to the mansions and lavish estates of the wealthy following the Bolshevik Revolution? How were the buildings repurposed, if at all?
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Before the American Revolution, the colonies in Northeast America were British, so why did the colonists refuse to financially help their mother country after the war against France? And they were considered an independent territory, and not a part of the British Empire?
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