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It's WW2. I'm a black U.S. soldier stationed in England and a white U.S. soldier barred me from going to a British pub. How likely was this scenario?
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My Mexican neighbor told me that: "Mexico hid its Black population down by the coast". What did she mean by this? Being so close to the U.S. why doesn't Northern Mexico have a larger Black population?
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A lot of the monarchies in Europe were related. Did nepotism hinder their decisions to make war at times?
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In 1970, were the Khmer Rouge and Vietnamese Communist Party ideologically different? What led to the Vietnamese invading Cambodia?
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I'm am the wife of a German officer and I benefitted from Jewish slave labor. Am I convicted of anything after the war?
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