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Why did Kabir go to Magahar to die?
The oldest texts do not say why Kabir went to Magahar. His own songs place his death there and call it equal to Kashi; the donkey line comes later.
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Did Mirabai really drink poison, and who sent it?
In every early telling Mirabai drinks the poison and lives, but no outside record confirms it, and the sources name different senders, or none.
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Is Chanakya Niti the same as the Arthashastra? Who wrote it?
No. The Arthashastra is a prose treatise on government that names Kautilya; Chanakya Niti is a set of verse collections with no known author.
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Did Napoleon plan to invade India? What his letters say
Yes, on paper: a letter to Tipu Sultan, route studies in Persia and an 1808 offer to the Tsar. We found no order for an army to march, and none arrived.
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Was Napoleon really short?
No. His post-mortem in 1821 recorded about 1.69 m (5 ft 6 in), average or slightly above for his time. The 'little' Napoleon grew out of British cartoons.
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