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About how many immigrants were on the Titanic?
All that I can find is that the majority of the 709 third class passengers were immigrants. Was it the vast majority, or nearly all of them?
Would there have been any immigrants in second class?
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Australian Immigration 1945-present
I have been wondering for a while and have always wanted to know about Australia's immigration history, my main question being:
Why has Australia accepted many migrants from 1945 to the present time?
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Suffragettes vs. Einstein
A long time ago -- either when I was in school, or via some documentary -- I learned that Einstein had to face a public immigration hearing in 1933 [edit: probably it was a naturalization hearing in ...
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Why did so many Italians emigrate to Argentina?
On 13th of March, 2013, archbishop of Buenos Aires, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, became new pope of Catholic Church. He was born and raised in Argentina with Italian origins.
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How would Eastern European emigres have traveled across Eastern Europe to Warsaw in the early 20thC?
I was looking back at my grandmother's voyage to America, she made the trip from Zbaraz in the Ukraine through Warsaw and then on to Gdanks and through steerage class to the New York. I know she took ...
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