Playing up the threat of the communist incursions, the Shah of Iran gained more and more support—financial and political—from the United States.

With the emergence of the US as a global superpower in the twentieth-century, anti-Palestinian stereotypes in the media bled over to stigmatize Arab Americans.

Fratricide among rival princes was legal and widely practiced until 1603, so confinement to the palace was actually an improvement.

The proposal to partition British India along religious lines was put forward as early as 1940. The resulting constitutional provision endured until 2019.

The "deep state" idea of a shadowy parallel government, heard much in the news now, seems to be a concept borrowed from the Turkish experience.