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How did the American sailors in 1944/45 know to call Japanese suicide attacks "Kamikaze"?

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What was the attitude in the antebellum South of the wives of slave owners towards their husbands when they forced the slaves to perform sexual favors?

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During the Pacific War, to what extent were Japanese leaders aware of their pilots' tendency to exaggerate kill counts and was it a big problem?

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How did the American sailors in 1944/45 know to call Japanese suicide attacks "Kamikaze"?	596
What was the attitude in the antebellum South of the wives of slave owners towards their husbands when they forced the slaves to perform sexual favors?	32
During the Pacific War, to what extent were Japanese leaders aware of their pilots' tendency to exaggerate kill counts and was it a big problem?	6