A secret deal known as the Wormley Bargain settled this.
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Oh Warsaw!
Warsaw was hit hard during World War II. It has been rebuilt since the war, but still shows the scars.
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Daily Quiz for October 19, 2009
Confederate General James Longstreet was wounded during this event in 1874, nine years after the Civil War had ended.
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The Last Photo of Lincoln
When Abraham Lincoln’s remains arrived in New York City on April 24, 1865, hundreds of thousands of its once-antagonistic citizens gathered to mourn him.
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Daily Quiz for October 18, 2009
In the "Alabama Claims" court cases, the U.S. government sued this government.
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Daily Quiz for October 17, 2009
President Herbert Hoover was the first American president ever to visit a preserved Southern battlefield of the American Revolution when he went here in 1930.
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Daily Quiz for October 16, 2009
A number of Forty-Niners partially financed their trip to the California gold fields by selling these along the way.
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What’s Wrong With American Healthcare?
James Mohr examines the history of American health care.
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Daily Quiz for October 15, 2009
The operation that helped German rocket scientists such as Wernher von Braun escape from Germany to America at the end of WWII was named this.
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Daily Quiz for October 14, 2009
The United States refused to recognize the government of Liberian president Edwin Barclay after a 1930 League of Nations report accused Liberia of countenancing this.