On the last day of the 16th century, Queen Elizabeth I gave her blessing and five British vessels set sail for what is now known as Indonesia. ... When Akbar died in 1605, however, the court degenerated into a series of vicious successional struggles animated by an operating principle known as takht ya takhta (throne or coffin). Aurangzeb, whose 49-year rule began in 1658, applied special taxes to Hindus and reputedly demolished Hindu temples, sowing the seeds of the furious Hindu-Muslim animosities that would shadow British India till the end and that poison relations between India and Pakist...

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Perhaps most disturbing of all to the conservative right was the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban missile crisis. ... Phillips and Viguerie founded the Conservative Caucus in 1974 and later helped start the Moral Majority with Weyrich and the Reverend Jerry Falwell. ... The Speech helped raise $8 million in small contributions for Goldwater and elevated Reagan into the national political spotlight. ... I would say it's impossible to operate without them. ... The sponsors would have had nothing to show. ...

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