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Did Napoleon introduce driving on the right side because he was left-handed?
Traffic has almost always been keep-to-the-left since at least the time of Rome until relatively recently.
Some historians, such as C. Northcote Parkinson, believed that ancient travellers on ...
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Has France ever won a war?
France is commonly made fun of for not having won a war, for instance when they rejoined NATO and the daily mail made fun of them:
Why did the French celebrate their World Cup in 1998 so wildly?
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Did the French General Henri Gouraud kick and insult Saladins grave in 1920 after putting down an anti-colonial uprising?
I was told of an incident where a French general in 1920 after having put down an anti-colonial uprising, supposedly went on to insult the grave of Saladin. I attempted to find a source for that ...
