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December 1
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Romanticism: Literature
Who is the author of this painting? / Unrecognizable signature
Did America ever get it's 'garden hose" back?
Why the black population is still growing in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Christmas
Marius, or The Fugitive - in English?
Stalemate in World War One
Wilderness years
Anjirō
What kind of dough to use?
Frederick the soldier
painting as a response to flowers
Socio ethnocentric
An Allegory
Seasonal quiz help
December 2
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Can someone write me some poetry
The Potato and France
Catholics under Elizabeth
Ratification of international treaties by France
Fair use
Switzerland military
Rendition by US Authorities (non terrorism cases)
Problems in the aboriginal communities??
Franco and the fugitives
Baghdad in Afghanistan?
December 3
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findings map that shows northern european tribes reach into england and ireland
Mad monarchs
Kosovo
Rabbi Kook and the Shemittah year
Ireland from a historical point of view
John Maynard Keynes quote on tedium of stock-trading
Swiss wars
Taifa and Almoravids
Medical/Cosmetic Tourism Lawsuits
Reading comprehension - Harry Potter
December 4
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Russian Music
Name of artist for Blood Money cover art
George Sand
texas native american tribes
Catholic Saint and the Holy Spirit
Analysis of Emily Dickinson Poem
"A Charlotte Zolotow book"
French failing
Chinese Belief
Why war?
first generation entrepreneurs
Oh hell, I just screwed something up!
Assurance
What role did Caeso Malleus participate in for the Second Punic War (about 200 BC +/-)?
Alexsander Eiduk
Can someone explain this video?
Need a German type name for a German shepard puppy
Entering Heaven -
Cromwell and parliament
Hanafuda cards
Hindus wearing Karakul caps
Is this right?
December 5
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Somalia Arab League?
Removal of church/god from public education system
Tom Driberg
Article about the Mongol Invasion of Persia is needed
Movie Based on Tolstoy Book
Urban Warfare in world war one
Divorce in the UK
Near death experiences and heaven
Origin of Government
T. Roosevelt letter to Edwin Arlington Robinson
SS recruitment
Indemnity payments during the Russian Civil War
Beowulf
One child policy and Islam
Tanks
Leprosy in Europe
military as an alternative to prison
Tkachyov and Lenin
December 6
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Gabroo
A name from Beckett/Berio
Does any work by Marx or Lenin desribe Communist society?
Cold Chills / "Heilige Schauer" or "Holy Shiver" in German Romanticism
Kalizi, Assyria
Sign languages
Famous last words
Tudor poor
Serving military officer should hold a political office. Any supporter?
stamps -- north rhodesia, pre-independence
War spy doll maker
Generation Y
Muhammed
rectangle flag of nepal
Fernão Mendes Pinto
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Syphilus in Europe
Nationalist objectives
Relient K and homosexuality
Executions in the Past
December 7
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Jesus as a given name
UK Scale in Maps
One Spartan
Weird historical coincidences
Shipping drama set in Bermuda
Art of Lighting
Dutyless Daughters
Caligula's horse
Leopold III
Looking for the title and artist of a French painting
Impact of Terrorism
Historians and travellers from antiquity
Christmas Pudding
Economics book
More music like this?
December 8
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Ghost story
The Catholic Church's position on the undead?
Romanticism:music
What is the USA equivalent of the UK Companies House
English Inn Signs
F. Saunders
Mazarin and Machiavelli
The Two Tenors
German invasion of Russia
Danger! kidney beans!
Business research in the US, starting with owner name.
Lifestyle//Literary style of the 1800's...
Study of Lighting
Government regulation of the economy
Philip of England and Ireland, disowned unlike the Orangist William
Germans in England
December 9
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What do MBA's do ?
Scottish and German colonies compared with the Anglo-Irish and French, in North America
Mysterious felony
Louis XIV
Kant, Schopenhauer and the Will
Anglo Catholic?
Slovenian Liberation Front
Relationships with Jesus
What is "The porheron statement"?
Mary Tudor and Edward the Sixth
Darfur conflict
The Second World War in America
Zheng He ( Author's)
British state opening of parliament
A strange Irish custom?
American citizens and Puerto Rico
December 10
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Masque of Anarchy
Throne speeches
The Alamo
George Brown College General Science and Arts Schedule Arts
Reconstruction and its results on former slaves
Interfaith sex in medieval Europe
Jeopardy quiz show
Russia at the end of WWI
Identifying a piece of music
Art
Leagal or not leagal? That is the question
Kierkegaard and third-best
Waterloo and after
Mass Suicide
December 11
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Emancipation laws in Texas
International Literary 1992-2007 Prize winner or nominees
3 types of Hajj
A Doll's House questions
Buchner and atheism
european explorers
Future imperfect
Art and urban regeneration...
Italian partisans
What are Christmas in Sweden?
Victorian occupations
Story of Civilization by Will Durant
Cold Chill or Holy Shiver
December 12
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Has George Bush ever met Osama Bin Ladin
Smallish Countries
Mechanism design theory and environmental regulation
Napoleon and the Marseillaise
Question appearing on my final
Jean Pierre Pellissier
The health of FDR
Montaigne on memory
Charles Edward, Duke of Coburg
What's My Sign?
How are judges assigned in the Los Angeles County Superior Court?
The Balkans and their language
Escapes from the Soviet Gulag
Malaya and Indo-China
On how one addresses saints
Philosophical concept
December 13
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Industrial Revolution
Mediaeval Royal Descendents of the Byzantine Emperors
Zheng He
Did Germans in WWII believe they were fighting a defensive war?
Mary
Italian wars
Suez Canal Sculptures - Two Monumental Harpies - Sphynx-Like Women
Driver's licenses
Cranford
Another Soviet question
December 14
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Will to Power
Philip, King of England
A true story?
Mohammad Ali JInnah VS Mahatma Gandhi
Army of Paraguay
Thoughts
Find a Book
Super Furry Animals
Who wrote this bit of verse?
Petain the defeatist
December 15
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Equivalent before the invention of computers
Did George W. Bush hit his father?
Why is there no Engelist or Engelism?
Credit card security
Latin Empire compared to Holy Roman Empire
Wagner a Nazi?
King Billy
December 16
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Financing the revolution
HIndi and Tamil
Belgium
Source for this verse about Thermopylae
Is knowledge over-managed? Evaluate the accuracy of this statement
Templars in England
Plead the 5th
Oldest person to be referenced
NAFTA and Customs duty for shopping in US
What is the current duties?
Defending the empire
War Writing
Old Swiss Confederacy
Are Hegelians bound by the Categorical Imperitive?
Pound sterling
December 17
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how would you draw a gondolier
The Rise of Western and European Civilization
Today's equivalent of one pound sterling in 1978 in Britain
Doggy story
Kinship terminology
First Naval Victory?
German Names
Tale of Two Cities - question about sequel(s)?
(Very) Christian names
Headlam and Christian Socialism
Constitutional Law
USA Presidential Candidates
Henrik Ibsen
December 18
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A few questions about world trade.
Tamo tigers?
Industrial Revolution
Karl Marx Young and Old
Examples of Conflict/Irony in "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
Is cream cheese and lox kosher?
Plate armor worn during the American revolutionary war and napoleonic wars
British constitution
Modern swords?
Cultural Relations
Differences between abaya, burqa, and jilbab?
Sex scandals
Christians?
December 19
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Ancient Greek architecture
Where did it come from?
Bible
American colonial contact and discovery films
Quatre-cent vingt et une (hope I got this right)
Napoleon's downfall
Nazism / Hatred
Valeri - Curious about Latin Translation
Mad all his life
Cultural Diffusion
Looking for study or news item about zoning in Los Angeles that is hurting food consumers
December 20
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Cosmetics and culture
Fine arts
Use of logaritms in economics
GRE in the UK
Nazi voters
What did the Marxists get right?
More on the crusades
Domestic life in Georgian England
December 21
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Countries
Hair dyeing and straightening cost
Parents Rights
Theories about Values and Ethics in Youth Work
Livy in english
Lasting legacy of our greatness
novelists getting published in C17 Europe?
Captives in the war of the kingdoms
December 22
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1964 World's Fair
Bob Considine
Jahangir nanak
What is the income range for middle, upper middle and upper classes in America?
Looking for source of quote.
Sole Proprietorships and Partnerships
December 23
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Mistakes in Holy Books and Proving Religions False
Fox on Barbados
Hamilton and Montrose
the promised one of Islam and the Seal of the Prophets
Italian army in WW2
Cruelty reduced disposal
December 24
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Bourgeois charms?
Why do Canadians shop in US?
The Iron Guard
Why was simi banned?
explain process of putting up a picture for explanation
American Indian Declaration of Independence
what is the commercial law?
December 25
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Six Questions To Norman Mailer
Looking for a photography project about a modern second coming.
Angels
December 26
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Smallpox erradication and the soviet union
Angela Lansbury - Contact Information
250 pages book prize winner and finalist
Music video I saw
December 27
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Re Angels and wings or no wings.
Names
Harrods
[Latin] Is the link the work cited? Is it worth linking?
Joe Keeper
Marie Antoinette's children
Civil war in Pakistan
Eating the Salad with his Fingers -- famous person who defies etiquette and the sheep who follow... (SOLVED)
Louis XIV at war
December 28
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UNAM student population
Aesthetics, etc
Somebody wanna decipher this site for me?
Governing Structure - officers - ranks of British Raj, East India Company
watercolour artist possibly spanish
Charisma in U.S. Presidental elections
Bombardier Q Series
Joshua Gianavel
Napolean and the 1812 invasion of Russia
December 29
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Looking for pics - help
logrolling--has anyone heard of corrupt dealmaking betw.public defenders and
GDP in the 70-s
Asaish - Kurdish secret police?
Textbook use in the US
What Dutch painter signed with "ploos"
Bangladesh provincial government?
DMV in south carolina website
December 30
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Thought experiment
Sonata in G Major (Haydn)
Men's Penis size
Undercover cops...
Postcodes in Upminster
Androboros
December 31
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Where do/did Yugoslavia's external and internal borders come from? When were they first drawn? By whom?
Elam, Pennsylvania
The Guaraní people and the Jesuit Reductions PRIMARY SOURCE
W. German coins: just for W. Germany or for all of post 1990 Germany?
Is all economic regulation "socialism"?
William Bunce - At the Battle of Trafalgar
Benazir Bhutto's manner of death