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How much of "Twelve Years a Slave" was Solomon Northup's own words, in contrast to David Wilson's (the editor)?
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I was told by a professor that following the invasion of Poland by both Germany and the USSR in 1939, many Polish Jews actually fled into Nazi Germany in fear of Soviet repression and violence. Is this true?
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During the fall of the Berlin Wall, were GDR residents protesting universally for reunification with the West? Was this a popular talking point in 1989?
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Dr. Umar Johnson, a black American therapist, claims that “There is no evidence of any African civilization where homosexuality was allowed, considered normal, or openly practiced…it was never legitimized as behavior that could be accepted or practised openly.” Is his claim true?
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This documentary from 1985 notes that there was a "Bank of Foreign Trade Moscow" responsible for international currency trading. How did such an institution operate in the context of the Cold War and a state-run economy?
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Following the results of the 1995 Quebec independence referendum, Premier Jacques Parizeau infamously noted in his concession speech that sovereignty had lost due to the "money and ethnic votes". Was this true? Did wealthier and non-white Quebecers vote predominantly against sovereignty?
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The American War Library website on the Vietnam War claims that "Black leaders protested [high black casualty rates] and Pres Johnson ordered that black participation should be cut back in the combat units in 1969." What policy is this in reference to?
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