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in TVIn which century does the epic tale of FX’s “Shogun” unfold?
Answer: FX’s “Shogun” catapults us back to the dawn of the 17th century, specifically the year 1600. It’s a meticulously crafted dive into feudal Japan, a time when samurais weren’t just an excellent Halloween costume idea but the real deal. The series takes a page—or, in this case, several hundred pages—from James Clavell’s 1975 novel.
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in PlacesWho initially used to live in Venice’s ghetto?
Answer: The Venetian Ghetto was the area of Venice, Italy, where Jews were forced to live since a 1516 decree of the Venetian Senate and until Napoleon’s army occupied Venice in 1797. The English word ghetto is derived from the Jewish ghetto in Venice. The ghetto’s 16th-century synagogues have remained operational continuously, except for the…
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in PlacesThe city of Memphis, Tennessee, is named after which country’s Memphis?
Answer: Memphis, Egypt, was the ancient capital of the Lower Egypt district of mḥw (“north”). Its ruins – 20 km (12 mi) south of Giza (just outside Cairo) – include the Saqqara site, which contains ancient burial grounds of Egyptian royalty, serving as the necropolis for ancient Memphis._x000D_
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in PoliticsWhat’s “status quo ante”?
Answer: Status quo ante is Latin for the state where (things were) before, usually the state of affairs before an upsetting development._x000D_
