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The 19th century began on January 1, 1801, and ended on December 31, 1900.
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Upper-class male cohabitation in mid-19th century USA
James Buchanan is often considered to be the first (and only so far?) gay American president. The major piece of evidence for this (at least according to wikipedia and some popular articles on this I' …
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Why did the July Monarchy dispense with Montgaillard's services?
This guy, Count Montgaillard, seems to have switched allegiances as often as he used to breath - he was an aristocrat and en emigre who then served the Republic, the Bourbon princes, again the Diector …
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Did the Taaffe family maintain an actual connection with Ireland during the 19th century?
The Taaffe family is rather remarkable for having held both an Irish/UK and Austrian peerage. However, it is not clear from the wiki pages whether they (for example, Count Eduard, who was Austrian pri …
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Did Engels and Welles ever call for the extermination of Basques and Serbs?
Someone in some scribble in a matter-of-fact way made this assertion. Is it based on fact?
Here's the original quote (in Russian) and its googletrans + my light fixing:
Фридрих Энгельс упоминал о …
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What book on liberty did Lord Acton not write?
Momigliano writes in his essay A Piedmontese View of the History of Ideas:
Lord Acton managed to become famous for a book on liberty he did not
write.
What is meant by this puzzling sentence?
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Did Palmerston contribute to Louis Philippe's downfall?
I am reading this book and have come across a slightly puzzling passage on p. 154:
[Palmerston] kept on good terms with Louis Philippe of France until he
felt, in 1846, that Louis was taking an …
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Ethnic Germans in Russian service in Poland
General Brusilov wrote in his memoirs that a few years before the war he was serving in a high military position in Russian-controlled Poland and that he was appalled by the fact that all Russian high …
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Was slavery really on the way out in the antebellum USA?
Gail Jarvis, in an encomium to the Dunning School writes:
William A. Dunning fervently opposed slavery but his reading of the trends of the times led him to the conclusion that the institution was co …
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Why were women excluded from the succession line in the Meiji constitution?
Article 2 of the Meiji consitution (full text here) says:
The Imperial Throne shall be succeeded to by Imperial male
descendants, according to the provisions of the Imperial House Law.
A hist …
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