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philwelch
on Jan 11, 2012
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Foxconn workers threatened mass suicide for their ...
Oh yeah--France actually did abandon their American colonies during the Napoleonic Wars. Haiti had a revolution and Napoleon needed money to try and conquer Europe, so he sold Louisiana to the United States.
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