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Harun al-Rashid sent Charlemagne an elephant. How did this elephant get to Baghdad in the first place? He had to have been captured in India. Would he have been marched to the coast, then shipped to Basra, and marched to Bagdad? Or would it have been easier to just march him through the Indokush?

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how do you ship an elephant from Asia/Africa to America?

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Camille Desmoulins "started" the French Revolution in a café. What other significant historical events began at a coffee house?

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Elizabeth II did not attend the reburial of King Richard III in Leicester Cathedral. Was this political?

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Looking for Medieval depictions of Christ carrying the Virgin

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something old, something new, something borrowed…

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Harun al-Rashid sent Charlemagne an elephant. How did this elephant get to Baghdad in the first place? He had to have been captured in India. Would he have been marched to the coast, then shipped to Basra, and marched to Bagdad? Or would it have been easier to just march him through the Indokush?	141	AskHistorians
how do you ship an elephant from Asia/Africa to America?	5	AskHistorians
Camille Desmoulins "started" the French Revolution in a café. What other significant historical events began at a coffee house?	2	AskHistorians
Elizabeth II did not attend the reburial of King Richard III in Leicester Cathedral. Was this political?	2	AskHistorians
Looking for Medieval depictions of Christ carrying the Virgin	1	AskHistorians
something old, something new, something borrowed…	1	AskHistorians