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It's a Civil War history course, and it's superb stuff - I'm learning a lot. But...
In this episode, the lecturer is comparing "letters from the front" from the Civil and Iraq wars. He reads out a series of emails from an infantryman stationed in Iraq, then says, "that soldier was killed [...] by an IUD".
Uh... No, Yale history professor. Dictionary.com and MSNBC.com will help us out here:
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