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Who are the Roma people? How did they end up predominantly in Europe? Are Roma people/Gy***es interchangeable terms?
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When the US pulled out of Vietnam in 1975, what happened to all the locals that had supported them in the war effort?
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I still can't wrap my mind around this - how was such a small island like Britian able to control so much of the globe at one point?
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What's the history behind laws disenfranchising felons in the U.S.? Seems like it gives political incentive for the class in power to pass legislation which targets certain groups.
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I am an African-American living in the Jim Crow South in the 1880s. What is my perception of the Chinese Exclusion Act?
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