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U.S. History
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49%
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In 1830 this president signs the Indian Removal Act
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Andrew Jackson
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40%
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This 1925 trial in Tennessee sees a high school teacher charged with teaching human evolution
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Scopes Trial
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35%
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Nearly 300 Lakota Indians are victims of this massacre in 1890
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Wounded Knee
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30%
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Photos of detainee abuse at this prison are released in 2006
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Abu Ghraib
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27%
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In 1857, this slave sues for his freedom but is told by the Supreme Court that he can not be a US citizen due to his race and status as property
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Dred Scott
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British History
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45%
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40,000 troops are slaughtered trying to capture this tiny Turkish peninsula during WWI
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Gallipoli
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42%
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British troops torture people during the Mau Mau uprising in this country
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Kenya
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33%
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This English king spends only six months of his reign in England, preferring his estates in southwest France
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Richard the Lionheart
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27%
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Nearly 100 people die in this city's St. Scholastica Day Riot after students complain about the quality of their beverages
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Oxford
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18%
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This royal office, responsible for helping the King use the toilet, is considered one of the most desirable positions in the Tudor court
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Groom of the Stool
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Russian History
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84%
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American Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky at the world championships of this game
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Chess
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77%
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In an event called the Holodomor, Soviet leaders inflict a terrible famine on this country, killing millions
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Ukraine
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75%
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This leader is found drunk, in his underwear, trying to hail a cab, and wanting pizza during a 1995 visit to Washington D.C.
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Boris Yeltsin
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74%
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In the early 20th century, tens of thousands of people die in "pogroms" targeting this group of people
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Jews
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28%
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This Russian ballet dancer emigrates to Canada in 1974
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Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Chinese History
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48%
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Tens of millions die in the Taiping Rebellion after a man named Hong Xiuquan proclaims himself to be the brother of this religious figure
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Jesus Christ
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34%
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In 2013, a zoo in the city of Louhe defrauds patrons by displaying a dog that they claim is this type of animal
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Lion
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29%
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Foxconn factories in this industrial city install nets to reduce the suicide rate of workers
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Shenzhen
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29%
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A terrible famine is made worse thanks to Mao's campaign to kill this type of bird
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Sparrow
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18%
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Manchus conquer China and force the men to adopt this hairstyle
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Queue
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German History
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43%
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This German duo, famous for "Girl You Know its True" are busted for lip-synching in 1989
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Milli Vanilli
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39%
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Over 1,200 German women are sexually assaulted by migrants on this holiday in 2015, which is intially not reported by German media
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New Year's Eve
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39%
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Desperate to enter the U.S. market, Deutsche Bank loans money to this American after no other bank will
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Donald Trump
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32%
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During the Nazi era, fraudulent anti-Semitic text is taught in German schools
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The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
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21%
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21 people die (and 500 are injured) in a stampede at this electronic music festival
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The Love Parade
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Italian History
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71%
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This insane Roman emperor, known as "Little Boot", supposedly plans to promote his horse to the rank of consul
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Caligula
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55%
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Radiocarbon dating shows that this piece of cloth was not actually used to bury Jesus
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Shroud of Turin
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40%
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This nuclear physicist is forced to flee Italy for the United States in 1938 because of anti-Jewish laws that threatened his wife
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Enrico Fermi
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40%
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This illegitimate son of a pope supposedly holds an orgy at the Papal Palace called the "Banquet of Chestnuts"
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Cesare Borgia
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29%
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Early Romans need women, so they steal them from this nearby tribe
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Sabines
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French History
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66%
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Painter Paul Gauguin likely spreads syphilis to the population of this tropical island
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Tahiti
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63%
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France protects and celebrates this film director who drugged and raped a 13 year old girl
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Roman Polanski
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61%
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France loses many of its North American colonies as a result of this 1756-1763 war
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Seven Years' War
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57%
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In 1415, France loses this battle against a much smaller English army, mostly peasant archers
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Battle of Agincourt
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49%
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In this last 19th century "affair", an innocent Jewish soldier is convicted of treason
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Dreyfus affair
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