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How Danish were the Danish West Indies when the US bought them in 1917?

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Today queer activists are often called gay/LGBT/trans rights activists, were civil rights activists like MLK jr and others called "Black rights activists" in their lifetimes? If so, when did the switch to "civil rights activists" occur?

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I've heard that one of the struggles the Austro-Hungarian army had in WWI was a language gap, with many soldiers not speaking German well or at all. Why weren't all people in the empire taught German?

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When pro sports were integrated in the US, did anyone protest based on racist myths of black people being physically stronger than white people?

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When did people like Martin Luther King Jr start being called Civil Rights Activists and what labels were applied to them before? I'm especially interested in what they were called in sympathetic contemporary reporting.

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I recently learned that in his role as sheriff of Erie County, Grover Cleveland personally executed 2 men. Do we know which US president has personally killed the most people?

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Why has the 6 million figure stuck in popular culture when most estimates of the total death toll of the Holocaust are much higher?

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How Danish were the Danish West Indies when the US bought them in 1917?	2
Today queer activists are often called gay/LGBT/trans rights activists, were civil rights activists like MLK jr and others called "Black rights activists" in their lifetimes? If so, when did the switch to "civil rights activists" occur?	1
I've heard that one of the struggles the Austro-Hungarian army had in WWI was a language gap, with many soldiers not speaking German well or at all. Why weren't all people in the empire taught German?	1
When pro sports were integrated in the US, did anyone protest based on racist myths of black people being physically stronger than white people?	1
When did people like Martin Luther King Jr start being called Civil Rights Activists and what labels were applied to them before? I'm especially interested in what they were called in sympathetic contemporary reporting.	1
I recently learned that in his role as sheriff of Erie County, Grover Cleveland personally executed 2 men. Do we know which US president has personally killed the most people?	1
Why has the 6 million figure stuck in popular culture when most estimates of the total death toll of the Holocaust are much higher?	0