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To maintain an aura of literal divinity, some rulers forced subjects to stare directly at the ground, claiming that establishing eye contact was magically…
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The graceful dip performed for royalty started as an exaggerated shrinking motion to make oneself look as physically small and non-threatening as humanly…
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Talk about doing the absolute bare minimum to relate to your subjects. The Ptolemaic dynasty ruled Egypt for nearly 300 years, but they were Greek and…
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The ultimate case of extreme career hypocrisy. Before unexpectedly becoming the King of Sweden, he was a hardcore French revolutionary who got a massive…
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Managing an entire empire is surprisingly relaxed when you literally cannot understand a word your parliament is screaming at you. Brought over from Hanover…
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Holy infallibility apparently has a few historical loopholes. Pope John XII took the papacy in the 10th century and immediately turned the Lateran Palace into…
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