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As no presidential<span> candidate received a majority of electoral votes in the election of</span>1824<span>, the U.S. </span>House of Representatives<span> votes to elect John Quincy Adams, who won fewer votes than Andrew Jackson in the popular election, as </span>president<span> of the United States.</span>
Well one reason is that it was to divide Berlin from 1961 to 1989.
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