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When Smuts Goes is a 1947 novel set in a dystopian future South Africa where Jan Smuts and the United Party are defeated by Afrikaner nationalists, who declare a new independent Boer Republic and embark on an increasingly destructive quest for apartheid. The book's concept became true a year later.
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The 620th Engineer General Service Company was a U.S. Army company in World War II intentionally composed of soldiers who were suspected of pro-Nazi sympathies. The army dumped them at a remote base to perform menial tasks. The soldiers wore different uniforms and were not allowed to have weapons.
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Christopher Mayhew was a pioneer in anti-Zionism in Britain. When he met Israeli Foreign Minister Golda Meir in 1963, Mayhew said she had a "colonial settler's mindset" eerily similar to that of British settlers in Africa. Meir related to Palestinians only as "drivers, gardeners and houseboys."
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Christopher Mayhew was a pioneer in anti-Zionism in Britain. When he met Israeli Foreign Minister Golda Meir in 1963, Mayhew said she had a "colonial settler's mindset" eerily similar to that of British settlers in Africa. Meir related to Palestinians only as "drivers, gardeners and houseboys."
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When Smuts Goes is a 1947 novel set in a dystopian future South Africa where Jan Smuts and the United Party are defeated by Afrikaner nationalists, who declare a new independent Boer Republic and embark on an increasingly destructive quest for apartheid. The book's concept became true a year later. NSFW
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Former FBI agent sentenced to life in prison for raping an 11-year-old girl while serving as an Alabama state trooper. Alabama police had hired Christopher Bauer even after he was kicked out of the FBI amid earlier claims that he'd raped a co-worker at knifepoint.
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During the Russian Civil War, the Bolsheviks were surprised when some Tsarists, including General Aleksei Brusilov, collaborated with them. Lenin was reluctant to accept their help, but later said the Reds might've lost without them. Brusilov was one of Russia's best officers in the Great War.
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Christopher Mayhew was a pioneer in anti-Zionism in Britain. When he met Israeli Foreign Minister Golda Meir in 1963, Mayhew said she had a "colonial settler's mindset" eerily similar to that of British settlers in Africa. Meir related to Palestinians only as "drivers, gardeners and houseboys."
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