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At the turn of the 20th century, my great, great grandfather - a butcher - moved his family of about 10 people from a small town in Galicia in Austria-Hungary - one of the poorest areas in Europe - all the way to New York City and then to Philadelphia. What would this journey have looked like?

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"How happy I should be if he ordered me to leap into the fire this instant!" During the Napoleonic Wars of the 1800s, how well-known, well-liked, and venerated exactly were the respective heads of states of the different participating nations?

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At the turn of the 20th century, my great, great grandfather - a butcher - moved his family of about 10 people from a small town in Galicia in Austria-Hungary - one of the poorest areas in Europe - all the way to New York City and then to Philadelphia. What would this journey have looked like?	166
"How happy I should be if he ordered me to leap into the fire this instant!" During the Napoleonic Wars of the 1800s, how well-known, well-liked, and venerated exactly were the respective heads of states of the different participating nations?	11