persecution of innocent poasters by hack judges & sinister feds is sadly an old American tradition 
Author argues national identity among English-speaking Canadians died entirely in mid-20th century, and was replaced by a broader civic identity. Nonetheless there is still an English-Canadian nation that can be seen sociologically through shared culture. 
At the time of the 1884 Berlin Conference, what is now the eastern Congo was ruled by eight kingdoms. Rwanda had yet to be united. Per the author, Rwandan (Tutsi & Hutu) migration west of Lake Kivu was minimal at the time. 
Timeline of Quebecois separatism from Parti Quebecois's first provincial victory in 1976 to the 2014 Quebec National Assembly election 
Glenn Beck is apparently still alive - he and Levin are the only two people on this I've heard of 
Steppe ancestry in IEs was diluted by the time that they reached SW Iberia at end of third millennium, in line with other studies. However, there are signs of an Eastern Mediterranean migration to Iberia in Bronze Age or earlier: 
pre-modern mass migrations often had appalling death tolls. Pressure of the German Suebi on the Celt Helvetii must have been tremendous: 
Safavid Order had a waqf (charitable endowment) for its benefit by 1305 in Ardabil. Its network of followers expanded in Anatolia, Khorasan, & Mazandaran under aegis of Ilkhanate & some of its successors, but was forced to arm some of its supporters in at least Ardabil. 
Eisenhower backed Pakistan, but Kennedy backed India, so by 1965 the USA gave up hope on mediating between the two. That allowed for the Soviets to emerge as the natural mediator in 1965, despite their partiality to India as a result of Pakistan's previous alignment with USA. 
The concept of "dual use" knowledge 
Shia birthrates in mid-20th century Lebanon were higher than those of Sunnis & Christians. 
Russian Tsar ruled more Moslems than the Ottoman Sultan by outbreak of WWI. It was perhaps the lowest that the Islamic world had sunk since 1260. 
one reason to find the Iranian Revolution interesting is that it proceeded to follow a non-Western path of development, much like India & China, rather than following the Western path. 
alcohol consumption in at least New Kingdom/Roman Egypt as a means to avoid Schistosomiasis: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
Burma is a colonial era English name for Myanmar. In the Burmese language (Myanma Saga), the ethnicity & nationality of locals are not distinguished - such distinctions are made only in Western academia. 
Mansa Musa's rise to power is known only through a dictation written down by a secretary in Cairo. 
death toll in Algerian War is disputed, but census comparisons suggest it was about 350k-400k - about 3% of the population. 
Islamic impulse towards iconoclasm ensured that physical Ottoman commemorations of triumphs & catastrophes were usually limited to inscriptions on fountains, clocks towers, & mosques. Statues of men in Turkey are usually from the republican era. 
Contemporary Arabic and Greek sources for the first Ottoman rulers have a dearth of information. However, three late 15th century Turkish offer enough information to understand the early Ottoman realm when combined with archaeological, epigraphic, & cartographic work. 
Latin world's understanding of Abbasid Caliphate was almost mythological due to distance. Byzantines by contrast saw Abbasids as the only empire equivalent to theirs (Holy Roman Empire's imperial pretensions were rejected by Byzantines). 
Japanese Xinjiang scholarship is apparently the best developed. One wonders how many parts of the world can be best understood in a third (non-English, non-local) language. 