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The 15 Republics of the Soviet Union were the first-level administrative divisions of the Union, which was a highly centralised state while keeping a nominal federalised constitutional framework. The Union capital Moscow was part of the RSFSR, unlike many other countries where the national...

I am not making this up, but I recently came across a book and a news article saying that in 1986, Prime Minister Thatcher and the British Foreign Office considered appointing Charles III, at that time still the Prince of Wales, as the last governor of Hong Kong. To understand this better, in...

Looking at the family tree of Hanoverian monarchs, it surprises me how George I was closely connected with the Hohenzollerns since his son-in-law was Frederick William the "Soldier King of Prussia". If George II died young or childless, and George I failed to produce another male heir (consider...