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Questions

When a man died in ancient -------, the females in his family would smear their heads and faces with mud and wander through the city beating themselves and tearing off their clothes.?

When ---------- president Juan Per?

When Franklin D. Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945, ------------- became the first U.S. president to take office in the midst of a war.?

A 41-gun salute is the traditional salute to announce a royal birth in ------------.?

A devastating ------------- epidemic in 1822 left New York City with 16,000 corpses and no readily available space for burial.?