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* During the medieval, renaissance, and early-modern periods, Europe was basically run by a few closely interrelated families. The monarch of one warring nation could easily be prominent in the line of succession for the other's throne.
** More than one conflict was actually resolved by a "personal union," where the same person simply became the ruler of both states. Most famously in the English-speaking world, Queen Elizabeth I ended the off-and-on war between England and Scotland by giving the English throne to King James of Scotland.
* Nanai Wrestling Dance. Find a video, the illusion is amazing when a good performer does this — you'll repeatedly have to blink and re-establish that there's indeed only one guy "wrestling" with himself.
** Became the Russian metaphor for this trope (e.g. in headings like: "Is struggle against corruption the sort of Nanai Wrestling?").
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