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Jimmy Nakayama was a US soldier in Vietnam, 1965. After being hit in a friendly fire airstrike, Nakayama was rescued by reporter Joe Galloway who described how Jimmy's skin peeled off his legs when he tried to lift him. Nakayama died that week two days shy of 22 and the same week his wife gave birth
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What is the least interesting presidential election?(excluding the 2 where there was only one candidate, in 1789, and in 1821)
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In 1927, the Supreme Court upheld a eugenic Virginia law that allowed for its agencies to sterilize certain people deemed “unfit” to reproduce, without trial. By 1956, half of states had such compulsory sterilization laws on the books.
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On this day in 1964, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, allowing President Lyndon Johnson to escalate US troop presence in Vietnam without a declaration of war from Congress
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Which American thinkers had the most original and greatest contributions to the philosophy of democracy?
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