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January 1
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- Christianity, America, and Capitalism
- Christianity, America, and Capitalism (cont.)
- "Rigged" U.S. Presidential Elections
- Which is the city up side down on the map at 1:13 in this music video?
- Aristotle and acoustics
- Is praxeology dependent to mathematics and formal logic?
- Polish Armoured trains in Britain
- Prussian King turn German Emperor
- Pride
January 2
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- A book by Rabani Mauri, 1532, de Clericorum institutione et Ceremoniis ecclesiae:
- Anencephalic Infants and Citizens
- Is Ordinary language philosophy a philosophical school of thought or a philosophical movement?
- Did a billiards player commit suicide because of a fly?
- Gateless public transit
- Source for quotation
- Conducting and musicianship
- British citizens, House of Lords
- equal capital gains taxation theory
January 3
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- French Revolutionaries
- How do Encyclopædia Britannica verify their contents?
- Secular Humanism and Communism
- Communism and Socialism
- God and the Devil
- Same social class or different?
- All the Heinrichs in the Reuss family
- Name for that effect: personality test alredy biased by the person's self-assessment?
- Origins of the spoiler warning
- Friedrich Nietzsche quote
January 5
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- Hair and grooming in historical Venice, Italy
- Relation between William Perry and Matthew C. Perry
- Classical vs. medieval armies
- Once King Abdullah dies, can a young Prince become King?
- Famous actors, musicians or artists who have received the Order of Canada
- Catholicism, priests, and reproduction
- Democratic elections where one party wins all the seats
January 6
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- Atheism and the Devil
- Nontheism, the Devil, Good, and Evil
- His Dark Materials, God, the Devil, Good, and Evil
- Older name for the "Korean peninsula"
- Reginald Brentnor
- 3rd, 4th and 5th and other largest Bangladeshi Americans
- Alternatives to London ca. 1900
- XKCD comic
- What medal is Alexander wearing?
- 2012 Inflation Data release?
- The "only two cars in Ohio" story
- Why do flight attendants insist that in case of crashing into the sea you open the lifebelt once you got off the plane?
- Is it true that god is present ?
- Jonasson
- Same-sex marriage and the persecution of Christians
- Primary Education in the United States
January 7
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- Drawing conclusions from the wrong experiment-fallacy
- What trivias about Tokugawa Ieyasu is verifiable?
- Pastafarian Minister Honorific?
- General studies
- Colonization of the Americas as a good thing
- Columbine High massacre
- Did Jesus have a family name?
- proportional representation party list why not full
- Was KwaZulu a monarchy?
- What is the concept in political science or philosophy that speaks about the political autonomy of a private property and what is the technical term for that?
January 9
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- What is the status of the legal dispute between HarperCollins and Open Road?
- Sharia in specific area of Muslim majority nation
- Are prisoners' brains extracted in Security Prison 21?
- Completely stumped.
- First RAF 'kill' of second world war
- I'm wondering why there is no patent on financial instruments?
- The very first dilly bar maker
- Israeli election
- Religious conversion
- 1st and 2nd largest Bangladeshi, Arab, Somali, Iranian, Afghan and Turk communities in United Kingdom
- Lambastide
- Belief-oriented religion vs. Tribal religion
- Trillion dollar coin and Matthew Yglesias
January 10
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January 11
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January 12
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January 13
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January 14
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January 15
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- Marquess of Reading
- Proving common sense
- Europe's taxing artists
- Palmistry of Tokugawa Ieyasu: can it be verified?
- OCD
- Mapping of the entire earth
- London bombings during WW2
- Finding Forrester
- Milk, bread, sandwich, winter weather?
- Religious schools in Christianity, Hinduism and other religions
- Thinking of fiction in terms of how it was created
- symbolic gesture at NCAA football game
January 16
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January 17
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January 18
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January 19
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January 20
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- Searching for origin of quote about armies going to war over pieces of land not big enough to bury the dead
- What kind of Fiat?
- Economic value of a phd
- Crime and otakus in Japan
- I've got blisters on my fingers
- Percentage of disabled people in the UK accessing the countryside annually
- Bank of Montreal questions
January 21
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January 22
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January 23
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- French laws regarding police, riots, and crowd sizes.
- Hohenzollernsche Lande
- Origin of work
- A poem that is at first gentle but then becomes transfigured, dissonant.
- French Probate
- History of processed carbohydrate
- Same articles in a different media
- Outgoing Pres. Clinton briefs Pres. Geo Bush about al-quaeda
- How many Secrtary of States have been grilled after an attack on Americans in foreign countries
January 24
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- Roy Raymond (businessman)
- rival package companies with smaller aircrafts
- Being attracted to / impressed / fascinated by the incomprehensible
- Copyright law UK
- Projecting Americanism abroad -- standard of living
- Weird video of hostage
- sleeping in two cycles
- circumcised
- Ancient Somalia & Macrobia
- Based on what did the Canadian PM say this?
January 25
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January 26
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- Nations with free tuition?
- Cheapest colleges for a Kansas resident
- Legitimate or scam?
- Could some tell what the following Italian Surnames mean: Collura D'alfonso Deniro Milano Pacino Ciccone?
- bonfire commemoratives
- Historical prices of iron compared to other goods
- Typical starting out of convicts arriving in Australia
- History Question: what are some famous before 17th century Lesbian couples listed in history? Also have any lesbian couple remains ever been found?
- Corbreuse census around 1944
January 27
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January 28
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- Programme for International Student Assessment
- Why does Hollywood depict American twenty-somethings so poorly?
- These wretched times of ours
- Pre-fire buildings in Chicago
- Age of Consent versus Orientation
- Is my country, Japan, the strongest ally of the U.S. in Asia?
- Algeria hostage crisis and Japanese citizens
- old train designs/pictures
- Waterloo painting
January 29
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January 30
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- How to find how many translations a book has?
- Modern-day descendants of Julius Caesar
- Alleged proposed constitutional amendments
- Is it possible to reconstruct a currently spoken language (grammar, vocabulary, phonology) given it's parent language and sister languages?
- Copyright status of WW2 propaganda poster
- Rechtsfähigkeit/権利能力 (Kenri Nōryoku)
- Is a Governor General a commander or not?
- Divorce rates in places and times
January 31
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