Disputes in History
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True or False? "President Ronald Reagan won the Cold War."
Filed under: History and Politics & Law
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True or False? "Queen Victoria personally intervened to omit lesbianism from the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1885."
Filed under: Relationships and History
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True or False? "Queen Victoria used marijuana."
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True or False? "Quirinius was the governor of Syria twice."
Filed under: History
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True or False? "Reagan substantially changed the direction of government."
Filed under: History and Politics & Law
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True or False? "Richard Nixon was born on the day of an eclipse."
Filed under: History
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True or False? "Ronald Reagan was intelligent."
Filed under: History and Politics & Law
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True or False? "Sarah Palin cost John McCain the 2008 election."
Filed under: History and Politics & Law
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True or False? "Slavery was a dying economic institution until Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin."
Filed under: History
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True or False? "Slavery was already on its way out when the Civil War started."
Filed under: History
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True or False? "The Africans who were sold to Jamestown colonists became indentured servants, not slaves."
Filed under: History
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True or False? "The astronauts took thousands of pictures on the moon, each one perfectly exposed and sharply focused. Not one was badly composed or even blurred."
Filed under: History and Science & Math
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True or False? "The Biblical account of Noah and the flood actually occurred."
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True or False? "The can opener was invented 48 years after the can."
Filed under: History
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True or False? "The condom is named for Dr. Charles Condom (1630-1685)."
Filed under: Relationships and History
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True or False? "The destruction of the New Orleans levee after Hurricane Katrina was deliberate."
Filed under: History and Politics & Law
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True or False? "The first observance of Father's Day was in Fairmont, West Virginia on July 5, 1908."
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True or False? "The game of 'golf' is an acronym for 'Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden'."
Filed under: Entertainment & Sports and History
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True or False? "The Irgun was a terrorist group."
Filed under: History and Politics & Law
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True or False? "The kilt originated in France."
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True or False? "The lost continent of Atlantis really existed."
Filed under: History and Science & Math
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True or False? "The name "Kangaroo" comes from the aboriginal word for "I don't know"."
Filed under: History
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True or False? "The no-fly zone in Iraq required large-scale attacks against its air defenses."
Filed under: History and Politics & Law
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True or False? "The oldest word in the English language is "town""
Filed under: History
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True or False? "The parachute was invented by Da Vinci in 1515."
Filed under: History
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True or False? "The pet ferret (Mustela putorias furo) was domesticated more than 500 years before the house cat."
Filed under: History
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True or False? "The photographs of Lee Harvey Oswald holding a rifle are forgeries."
Filed under: History
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True or False? "The recordings of Osama bin Laden since 2001 are authentic."
Filed under: History and Politics & Law
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True or False? "The Roman emperor Caligula made his horse a senator."
Filed under: History
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True or False? "The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows.""
Filed under: History