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- ...that social movementsby their dependence on outside, political factors?
- ...that impeachment in Norwaywas used six times in 1814–1845, but only twice since?
- ...that The Mass Psychology of Fascism, a book written by Wilhelm Reich in 1933, blamed sexual repression for the rise of fascism?
- ...that "Tippecanoe and Tyler too" (campaign banner pictured) was called the "Marseillaise" of the 1840 United States presidential election?
- ...that the events of Polish October together with Hungarian November shook the Eastern Bloc in 1956 and set the course for the Revolutions of 1989?
- ...that the current Sandinistaregime?
- ...that just before the Deutscher Volksverband were trained in sabotage by the Abwehragents arriving in Poland from Germany?
- ...that the Proletarian Revolutionary Organisation of Nepal proposed a synthesis of Buddhism and Maoism in 1977?
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- ...that Thutmose I was the first Pharaoh to be buried in the Valley of the Kings?
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- ...that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 banned literacy tests as a voting qualification in the U.S.?
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- ...that the first phase of Mitt Romney's 2012 U.S. presidential campaignwas announced via a video message?
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- ...that the public activist group Citizen Action shut down in 1997 due to the effects of a labor union election campaign funds scandal?
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- ...that labor movement?
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- ...that the Almanach de Gotha is a directory of European nobility first published in 1763?
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- ...that the Communist League of America was formed after some members of the Communist Party USA were expelled for Trotskyism?
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- ...that the 2010 Bihar legislative assembly electiontakes place across six phases and over one month?
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- ...that the traditional form of government in Cho-sid-nyi?
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- ...that the Japanese Farmer-Labour Party was banned just a few hours after its foundation in 1925?
- ...that The Blazethree days later?
- ...that the book Targeted Killing in International Law argues support in the Western world for targeted killing increased following the September 11 attacks?
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- ...that PowerPoint presentation for a meeting of Republican fundraisers which depicted Nancy Pelosi as Cruella de Vil?
- ...that following its Wetterstad and Bråthen?
- ...that Democrat Mayor Thomas G. Dunn, national co-chairman of Democrats for Nixon, was "read out of the party" for his support of Republican President Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election bid?
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- ...that the phrase "lipstick on a pig" may have its origins in the 18th-century expression "A hog in armour is still but a hog"?
- ...that the Swedish police on the servers of The Pirate Bay, a popular file sharingwebsite?
- ...that Beethoven?
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- ...that a logocracy is government through words?
- ...that the Jewish Socialist Workers Party in the Russian Empire mobilized 3,000 of its cadres in self-defense militias during 1906?
- ...that the liberal film company Brave New Films has produced full-length videos and paper advertisements in addition to the viral videos for which it is known?
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- ...that social movementsby their dependence on outside, political factors?
- ...that impeachment in Norwaywas used six times in 1814–1845, but only twice since?
- ...that The Mass Psychology of Fascism, a book written by Wilhelm Reich in 1933, blamed sexual repression for the rise of fascism?
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- ...that at the prevailing rate from five years earlier, when he assumed power?
- ...that the 2006 election cycle?
- ...that the lifelong Democrat Jim Naugle is in his sixth straight term as the Mayor of Fort Lauderdale and supported only Republicans for President since 1968?
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- ...that "Tippecanoe and Tyler too" (campaign banner pictured) was called the "Marseillaise" of the 1840 United States presidential election?
- ...that the events of Polish October together with Hungarian November shook the Eastern Bloc in 1956 and set the course for the Revolutions of 1989?
- ...that the current Sandinistaregime?
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- ...that the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum recorded over 1,200 violations of human rights in Zimbabwe by the law enforcement agencies from 2001 to September 2006?
- ...that the ideology of the Romanian National Renaissance Front has been described as "operetta fascism"?
- ...that in the 1984 leaders to be of good moral character?
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- ...that, at a congress in May 1921, all Comintern?
- ...that Saigon?
- ...that the Hanover in 1837?
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- ...that four and do not participate fully in all common policies?
- ...that Cornelius, Oregon is named after pioneer Thomas R. Cornelius, who served in the both the Territorial and State legislatures?
- ...that the Society of the Friends of Peasants had significant influence on the Danish Constitution of 1849?
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- ...that trained a dog to call "Adolf Hitler" as "Mein Führer"?
- ...that for many years, the Russian Soviet Republic did not have its Communist Party?
- ...that the World War II idea of Polish-Czechoslovakian confederation was eventually discarded by the Czechs, whose leader chose instead to believe in the Soviet Unionpromises of alliance?
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- ...that politicians discuss the ways in which they and their families have suffered because of Oprahization?
- ...that deficit reduction, but differ in their changes to taxation, entitlement programs, and research funding?
- ...that 2011 federal election?
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- ...that the 1968 pamphlet Communistconspiracy?
- ...that the Beslan school hostage crisis and survivors of Agent Orange?
- ...that the Libyan opposition has embraced "Zenga Zenga", an Israeli-created auto-tuned song and viral YouTube video that parodies Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi (pictured)?
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- ...that Matt Taibbi's book Griftopia has been described as a "necessary ... corrective" to the assertion that bubbles are an inevitable part of the market economy?
- ...that in the book Net.wars, author Wendy M. Grossman attributes Internet conflict in the 1990s to culture shock from an influx of users?
- ...that former California Assembly Republican Leader and California Republican Party Chair Robert W. Naylor was editor of The Stanford Daily while he was a student at Stanford University?
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- ...that the secular republicanparliament in the Muslim world?
- ...that in world-system theory, sociologists debate whether two world-systemshave ever existed during the same period?
- ...that former Republican California State Senator Becky Morgan served on the Board of Trustees of both her alma maters, Stanford University and Cornell University?
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- ...that Caedwalla of Wessex conquered southeast England during his brief 7th centuryreign?
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- ...that the Workers Socialist Federation began as a suffragettegroup?
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- ...that co-founder of the Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association Mohammed al-Bejadi spent most of 2011 in prison?
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- ...that depending on a time and place, the same social movement may be revolutionary or not?
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- ...that Republic of China(Taiwan) uses in most international organizations?
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- ...that the medieval lifestyle and establish a monarchy based on the Scottish Jacobiteline?
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- ...that the Edwardian era vivisection controversy, led to massive riots?
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- ...that just before the Deutscher Volksverband were trained in sabotage by the Abwehragents arriving in Poland from Germany?
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- ...that Samuel B. Nunez, Jr.?
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- ...that although al-Qaida member Ayman al-Zawahiri has falsely claimed that Obama secretly "pray[s] the prayers of the Jews"?
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- ...that the Proletarian Revolutionary Organisation of Nepal proposed a synthesis of Buddhism and Maoism in 1977?
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- ...that in April 2009, Lim Hwee Hua became the first woman to be appointed a full Minister in Singapore's Cabinet?
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- ...that Roman embassies to China are reported in Chinese historical accounts from as early as 166?
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- ...that on the death of Governor George Madison, Kentucky lieutenant governor Gabriel Slaughter was refused the title of "governor" by a hostile state legislature and was referred to as "acting governor" for the duration of his three-year administration?
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- ...that China?
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- ...that the Second Malaysia Plan sought to restructure the socioeconomic state of Malaysia through aggressive affirmative action?
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- ...that when the mistakenly called the organization an environmental group?
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- ...that the 2013 United States federal budget may impose a 23% cut on the defense budget due to the Budget Control Act of 2011, according to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta?
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- ...that the controversial Iraq De-Ba'athification policy banned anyone affiliated with the Ba'ath Party from working in the public sector?
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- ...that during the proposed term limits for the country's leaders?
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- ... that 1968 Lebanese general electionwas marred by heavy rains?
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