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How were the French able to resist and even conquer other countries during and after the Revolution of 1792?

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An old Merchant Marine once related the story of how a caught thief was made to walk the plank into the ocean during WW2, that a thief was the most despised of people and there was no room to store. Even if BS how were Thieves usually dealt w/in the Navy during wartime?

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Were soldiers from the Civil War honored often by Commemorative Cornerstones? An example in text

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Was the American firebombing of Tokyo a war crime?

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North America was for the most part deforested (old-growth especially), where did all that wood go? Oversee? Burn to keep warm?

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With casualties so high on Omaha Beach during D-Day, why didn't Aliied troops divert to, say, Utah Beach?

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Fascism, seems to have borrowed creative ideas from the German Expressionists, all of whom were expelled or worse, was this a coincidence, a way to alter the meaning?

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Churchill (w/atomic bomb) and Patton seemed ready for a fight against the USSR.Later in the Korean War Macarthur wanted to atomic bomb China. were these extrmist views in the post-ww2 era, or, reflective of many military/right wing leaders of the times?

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Are these two women Armenian counter-militias fighting the Armenian genocide perpetrated by the Turkish? Or, Armenian guerrillas around 1895? Or, just fashion models??

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Japanese conquest till 1943 was massive in terms of territory. How did it help and hinder in the war effort?

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How were the French able to resist and even conquer other countries during and after the Revolution of 1792?	5
An old Merchant Marine once related the story of how a caught thief was made to walk the plank into the ocean during WW2, that a thief was the most despised of people and there was no room to store. Even if BS how were Thieves usually dealt w/in the Navy during wartime?	5
Were soldiers from the Civil War honored often by Commemorative Cornerstones? An example in text	5
Was the American firebombing of Tokyo a war crime?	5
North America was for the most part deforested (old-growth especially), where did all that wood go? Oversee? Burn to keep warm?	5
With casualties so high on Omaha Beach during D-Day, why didn't Aliied troops divert to, say, Utah Beach?	5
Fascism, seems to have borrowed creative ideas from the German Expressionists, all of whom were expelled or worse, was this a coincidence, a way to alter the meaning?	5
Churchill (w/atomic bomb) and Patton seemed ready for a fight against the USSR.Later in the Korean War Macarthur wanted to atomic bomb China. were these extrmist views in the post-ww2 era, or, reflective of many military/right wing leaders of the times?	5
Are these two women Armenian counter-militias fighting the Armenian genocide perpetrated by the Turkish? Or, Armenian guerrillas around 1895? Or, just fashion models??	5
Japanese conquest till 1943 was massive in terms of territory. How did it help and hinder in the war effort?	5