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Lulu KC

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3. This made me curious so I looked it up

Reply to ProudMNDemocrat (Reply #2)

Thu May 23, 2024, 10:49 AM

May 2024

I thought Haiti won independence long ago, which it did, in 1804. But I'd missed the part about not finishing paying off its debt to France until 1947!

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This made me curious so I looked it up Lulu KC May 2024 #3