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During the Battle of Midway in 1942, the Japanese lost four aircraft carriers. Where did the pilots, now without a landig strip, land or ditch their planes?
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Did the “Campbell-Bannerman Report (1907)” actually exist and was there any mention of Western aims to install a puppet state in the Middle East to destabilize Arab states in the region?
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Was mercury poisoning from homemade refining widespread amongst prospectors during the California Gold Rush?
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In The Fever, by Sonia Shah, she attributes the early failures of the Jamestown colony to the fatigue and melancholy of malaria. How significant were the effects of malaria on the settlers and is it possible the lackadaisical work ethic promoted in textbooks was due to these effects?
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In East if Eden, Steinbeck talks about “bindlestiffs”; vagrants that were plentiful in the 1890s but no longer. Who were they and why were there so many of them at that time?
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My grandfather joined the FBI after Pearl Harbor, as he was denied military service due to flat feet. What kind of work did the FBI do to advance the war effort on the home front?
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In Eugene Rohan’s book The Fall of the Ottomans, he details the forcing of the Dardanelles in WWI and describes Admiral Sir Sackville Hamilton Carden cracking under pressure and receiving medical care in Malta. How were breakdowns like this viewed by the militaries of the time?
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