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Casablanca, a WW2 movie made in 1942, refers to Nazi persecution and concentration camps, but not Antisemitism. When did Americans begin to associate Nazis with Antisemitism?
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Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is the anthem of the European Union. It was also played in honor of the fall of the Berlin Wall. How did this piece become deeply associated with liberalism?
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What do historians believe was the death count of the Great Leap Forward? How did they arrive at this figure?
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For what use-case was algebra invented for? Finance? Bureaucracy? Astronomy? The pure pursuit of mathematical truths?
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In America, we eat a large variety of sea animals, but a very limited variety of land animals. How did this come to be?
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What were William Howard Taft's major accomplishments, and how did he come to be known as "that fat President"?
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Did British Prime Minister Clement Attlee ever say the quote "I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27"?
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