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In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.
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A major development of this historical event was the publication of letters written to Henry McComb. It began when Thomas Durant and other stockholders organized a company under an existing charter which soon assigned contracts to seven trustees. The reputations of congressmen James Brooks and James Patterson and Vice President Schulyer Colfax were ruined when it was revealed that they had been given stock in a company run by Oakes Ames. FTP, what was this scandal involving a scheme surrounding the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad
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History

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It's not childbirth, but one god of this domain had a name mistranslated as "placenta king," and displaced an older god of it named Iah. During the Middle Kingdom, this domain was represented symbolically by a lake at Karnak, and by the youngest member of the Theban Triad, who was the son of Mut and Amun. One god of this domain allowed Kheru-Ur and four other new deities to be born from Nut after losing one seventy-second of his power, elongating the year by five days. This realm was represented by Khonsu, who lost a gambling game to Thoth. This object also corresponds to a body part removed in combat with Set. For 10 points, name this cosmic object which ancient Egyptians equated with the ripped-out left eye of Horus.
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Social Science

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Although the word was developed in the 18th century by the philosopher Johann Lambert to apply to the study of distinguishing truth from illusion, the philosophical movement associated with it did not develop until the 20th Century. This school believed that it is possible to obtain insights into the essential structures of perceived reailty on the basis of a careful study of concrete examples supplied by experience. FTP, name this philosophical school, inspired by the slogan "To the things themselves" inspired by its founder, Edmund Husserl
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Social Science