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I realise that I shouldn't, but... "Patterned cloth with crossing horizontal and vertical bands in multiple colours, forming simple or...

I am not entirely certain it was anywhere near as busy while Korea was the "hermit kingdom" (a phrase coined in 1882 specifically in...

I think I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that, yes, people engaging in acts considered evil, practising evil magic and...

So... Not around the the time of the Meiji Restoration...

Question for clartification: By "around the Meiji restoration" (1868) do you mean something like intervening in the Boshin War...

Considerably smaller than either. Quick check suggests about three quarters of Spain, and three fifths of France.

It'smaller than California or, to use a European example in order to remind Americans that not all Europeans are Massachussetts-sized...

And that difference is relevant to the statement "Since Christianity appealed to Roman slaves it is not unlikely that it could also...

If memory serves, slaves were among the more notable groups of "early adopters" of Christianity in the Roman Empire, with the...

So was Charles I's...

For a more contemporary comparison, The Finnish Civil War (lasting roughly 4 months in 1918) saw about 10 000 killed (just) in combat...