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August 1
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A law-related question: what's the difference between a motion and a pleading?
Youngest General
Religion vs The Truth
Manifest Destiny (Sea to Shining Sea, Westward Ho!)
2010 Census Bureau on ancestry, apart from race and also racial classification
Freedom of panorama
Canadian secession from America
Where's London?
(UK) Coalition pledges
more specific ancient roman questions
August 2
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newspaper souvenirs
Forts
who am I?
Zhang Yi
Pomander
Bradley_Manning's access to information
how many American troops are still..
what percent of the area of Earth be Europe?
Is it true...
August 3
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Shakespeare and Italy
Whence "Incest is best"?
Question about attention whores
Flag or emblem of Ancient Egypt
Were The Indigenous people, the Taínos, farmers and hunters?
Book question
Colonel Grantham
Stealing Power
Can Romans be considered Italians?
August 4
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"Frazer River"
Where's The Stream
United Countries of America
Automaton and law
Why is San Francisco such a popular destination for French tourists?
Lies of the U.S. federal government to the American people
estates-general
Bells and smells
August 5
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Orwell quote
Question on serial killer Herbert Mullin
Rosary beads
British Prince
Thomas L. Blanton
Availability of blood for cooking
Why was the British Empire just a kingdom?
August 6
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Descendants of John of Gaunt
Justifications for peacetime promotions in the military?
16 districts of Bangladesh
British vs. U.S. Table Manners
Am I not God speech
what english word expression
Difference between total capitalization and market capitalization
Films showing elms in the English landscape
Black African Canadian Population
Berlin Wall and "Peaceful Coexistence"
Winter burials
Jesus
August 7
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Ockham's razor
Winding up a failed state
Article on Comparative Geography
August 8
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Do humans have a natural language?
18th century Anglophone accents
Is this womb envy?
American Revolutionary War
Unnamed sculpture
August 9
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time frame between Numbers 21 and 2 Kings 18?
Questions on the plot of the Literature text: Richard iii, Shakepeare. [1]
Can a nation state aquire ownership by way of adverse possession?
Perjury in court
Traditional Depictions of Witches and Wizards
What is the stereotype for the people in the North, East, West & South?
geneology of king david
Il duce, Silvio
Unknown territory
August 10
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What is a city in which...
Streibel or Striebel?
how did Jesus convince a billion people he's the messiah?
Social values as to respect to mother and father: Western vs. Eastern
World Health Organization Structure
The Dream of Gerontius (poem)
August 11
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Jeremy Bamber
Perpetual virginity of Mary
Something like Netflix for books
Did Hiltler do anything good?
England's National Day?
Sculpture identification
August 12
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Faith
Western attempts to "destabilise" USSR
SAT vs ACT
school
inception
difference between medieval SURCOAT AND TABARD?
August 13
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St. John of the Cross
Religions without written texts
Irish Military Logo as Lyre With Shield?
were there any advanced ancient cultures that left no traces?
Sir Percy Blakeney's Title Confusion
Legal question
August 14
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North York Federal Ridings Canada
Consecration of Nero
"... Alienated from... " in 17th century English history
Question about miscegenation
Free Movement, Work and the Schengen Area?
Some questions from someone not that knowledgeable in economics.
RANKS WITHIN THE CHURCH
where can I read John Wayne Gacy's petitions from death row
Name change after Hajj?
August 15
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Is this Mongkut or Chulalongkorn?
Revisionism
Stop signs
prenatal influence
Abraham Lincoln
St James
how divorce will affect childern?
World War One and the Russian Revolution
U.S. county borders
Hugo metaphor
August 16
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related by marriage
Carrier Strike Group: the exclusion zone
link between Octavia Hill and Frederick Leighton
Husband/Wife teams in politics
Persian 'Ustad' (teacher)
Expulsion of the moriscos
Car used for bombing FLQ
more than dual citizenship
Can you identify this picture from my poor description, please?
Stray cow problem in India
"I knew he was a Commie because he didn't drink"
WWII
Federal System
August 17
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White paper on indians
Odd canal layout near Holland River
Anglicanism, John Calvin, the Bishop of Rome and George Fox
Baptists & Quakers
Confusion with the first few statments of the Tractatus
First-past-the-post system in Canada
Stray cow "problem" in India
Someone running for state senate office a notable person to write about?
Turkish Embassy Incident
August 18
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9-1-1 on a cell phone
Imperial Valley, CA
August 19
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Hero
John Jacob Niles
Nazi Ovens
"Evidences for biblical accuracy" questions
Passports from Cameroon
Eugene Peterson's The Message
meaning of oshan caste in india (punjab)
Roger Clemens
August 20
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why did mike myers and Robin Ruzan divorce?
American search and rescue dogs
Weiyang Palace
Australian election count television?
Leaving Berlin mid-1945 - going where?
Blimp/Zeppelins
Shakespeare's Sonnet 12
PLA Woman
Gini coefficient of a commercial entity
August 21
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When did basic human society begin? Can that even be defined?
directions towards the debate
Is it harder to get laid if you have few friends?
cars in St.Pierre and Miquelon
Straw Dogs
August 22
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Building Identification
History of Shepherd's Crooks
Austro-Hungarian Studies at university in the UK
Saddest Oscar film
(not a request for legal advice!!) legally, will two women get in trouble in sweden if they collude to defame someone by inventing rape stories but then abandon the same when the jig is up?
Logic train
on what date did the reason for invading Iraq switch from being about their WMD to their freedom?
August 23
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Gold and silver are money...
Electronic form of negotiable instrument
Knights/dames who have sex changes
Mogadishu & Mercer Island - how would the residents feel about each other's cities?
Population
Plaque near William Wallace plaque in St. Bartholomew Hospital in London
August 24
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Piano Music
Greatest English-speaking orators of the 20th Century?
Shakespear
Barry Ronge
Compare and contrast the state governments of Virginia (USA) and Victoria (Australia)
1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak
History of France, 16th century
Children's Science Fiction Collection
August 25
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Racist French law?
Stray Cow "Problem" in India
2010 China National Highway 110 traffic jam
brief wherein Nike argues the right to lie.
Hard-boiled detective novel with an amnesia story within the story
Fiction about controlling people with language
Election campaigns of people with gimmick names (intentional or not) or just strange names
What Science Fiction Novel Is It?
Who is this princess?
Is social class about income and wealth, or about education and behaviour, or perhaps a combination of both?
Red flag above London GLC building
The freedom/seclusion of royal women in ancient Greece
American Indian Facial Hair
Word process a novel?
August 26
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slaughterhouse 5 and The Things They Carried
Modern Day Grand Tour
Separation of Church and State
Chilean Miners
UK Tax Law
Trying to remember the name of a book...
The thirty-two types of personality
August 27
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jewelry from gulf oil disaster
Heir presumptive of Thurn and Taxis
Credit card questions
Are there any Africans with only African ancestors?
rice paper block print
Where in the world for the best standard of living for the least money?
1066 - victory or defeat?
Jogging Kilburn, London
Fictional medals for a WW2 military themed website...
New Netherlands
August 28
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Crime in Denver
Hitler as a Surname
Crusades
Creation of Pashtunistan and consequences for NATO
killing
We need Peace, no ?
Human Height Over History
August 29
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Who painted the iconic "The Sad Clown" painting?
1907 pogrom in Poland
mma fighter
Highly classified US government information — only for the president?
Rawsons
Wills' letter to Lincoln
Strange colon
Joseph Ratzinger "subsequent illness" during Wehrmacht service
English language with most speakers
August 30
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Historical population continent statistics - these seem highly suspect to me
U.S. National Defense
Patent - General Question
Pledge of Allegiance
Medieval distillation of perfume
August 31
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Proving file sharing in court
2010 census info
Drug Cartel organizational structure
GDP deflator question
Christian apologetics in the early 16th century
A Walk over water
Distribution of oil/aid money ....
Abbey of St. Juste
Isn't it Against Wikirules?
fishing
Flag colors
Dante and physics
Historical dominatixes
For Whom the Bell Tolls