Was the 1875 purchase of Suez Canal shares Britain's smartest imperial gamble β or the arrogance that doomed the Empire?
Disraeli's secret 1875 deal bought Britain 44% of the Suez Canal Company overnight, cementing our grip on the route to India. Nearly a century later, that same canal humiliated us.
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Rank these famous fictional literary marriage proposals by the year the novel was first published, earliest first.
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Rank the British films that best capture working-class life β which one nails it?
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Which Scottish geologist's 1830 work 'Principles of Geology' popularised uniformitarianism and influenced Charles Darwin?
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