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December 1
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World's oldest religions
Indian International Students
classical music song
In the 'Muslim Demographics' video, a popular youtube video, where does he get this piece of information?
Reproduction rates in the EU countries
Divorce rates in the USA
Succession to the British throne: Protestant descendants of Catholics
Legality of using someone else's unsecured network in UK
Purpose of swim trunks inner netting
December 2
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Borough vs County constituencies
Did they or didn't They ?
SCi Fi Book involving unaware humans
Question moved from article space
Legal status of illustrations depicting pedophilia in Canada
Soldier who kept a diary during the Napoleonic wars?
Ordering employees to lobby Congress
French poet who taught for a while in a village school in England?
Regarding Canadian law and bankruptcy
Language use by world leaders during meetings/summits
Trends of black and white couples
Hindu chant in Indian Jones and the Temple of Doom?
Peace Corp updated
Natural-born life
December 3
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Dean Koontz Book
How people look up information
infant skeletons found in well between convent and monastery.
Osama Bin Laden's Gun
national geographic nature movies
December 4
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Can someone please explain the context of this Dawn article
Popular minimalist design style
Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen's religion
Three groundbreaking SF stories
What was that beautiful Taste ?
George Washington member of an Scandinavian society in Philadelphia around 1760
Larry K Fish
December 5
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Christmas in the Finnish Orthodox Church
The remotest places on earth, or in mainland Britain
Marcus Livius Drusus children flock
German citizen
No Derivative Works
Museums in Chelyabinsk, Russia
island
December 6
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Polynesian expansion
U.S. Public Law
albert henry prime minister of cook islands 1965
John J. Farrell (Lord Mayor of Dublin)
Why are highways named after police officers who died in the line of duty?
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold - Gay couple?
December 7
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What happened to the Hitler Diaries?
Shakespeare's non-masterpieces according to Bloom
Prayer
US Supreme Court case temporal overlap
Copenhagen climate change conference
Symbol identification?
What are my rights? What would most likely happen?
Otto Graf Lambsdorff
Decimus Junius Silanus (Consul 62 BC)
What is "magisterial Protestantism"?
God guiding people
the humanitarian imperative
Ed Koch
December 8
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Uknown Painting
A question from the ad/business world
Ancient Roman tribe Lemonia
International phone numbers
When Hu Jintao meets African Leaders oversea
December 9
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Bengali folklore
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Cruel and unusual punishment
Australia & New Zealand Navy against Japanese Whaling?
Teaching technique for young adults
early Congolese bishop
Pompey
Critisms of John Kufuor
The perfect defense against capital punishment?
Illegally collecting unemployment in the US
Coronation of Richard II of England
Confessing upon hearing Not guilty verdict
December 10
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Car manufacturers in Bangladesh
Correlational studies?
Pradeshiya Sabha in Sri Lanka
First science fiction literature
rednecks and reverse parody
Lead sentences in Nationalism article
December 11
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Why would a nondisclosure agreement be governed by Texas?
Emulating Greek pottery
Skilurus
Translating trademarked names
Philosopher brought out of retirement
Homosexuality in the United States of America
Papua New Guinea in Southeast Asia
What is the significance of a sun with a face?
December 12
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Elections for filling casual vacancies of Australian senators before 1977
county commissioners on fateful day
Albert VII, Archduke of Austria
any connection
The Gravestone with the Bloody Hand
What did Amerigo in 1497
Why did Susan Sontag call the white race the cancer of humanity?
December 13
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Just a few quick questions about musical notation
Credit Default Swaps and Argentina
Where can I read latkes, latkes good to eat online?
Inflation-adjusted data on GDP per capita
Legislation passed by one house of Congress but not the other in current session?
the german fatherland
Odes (Horace)
Sherlock Holmes copyright
We have the "Island of Great Britain" ... so where is the "Island of Little Britain"?
Medicare part D penalty
Similarities between ancient and modern Greek
Updated websites for intellectuals?
Ends, ways, and means, in the military etc
Incestuos marriage in old Europe
North Pole
December 14
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Julius Caesar
Why is corn still subsidized?
Territorial evolution of Russia
Tommy Lynn Sells Execution Date?
Works of al-Biruni
English translation
Corned beef
Red + green = Christmas colors
The Bordeaux Diligence
Question about 9/11 conspiracy theories
pumpkin soup
Regent if Scottland in the 1540s
What is a "Special Envoy to the Prime Minister"?
Railway mileage (UK) 'zero' points.
December 15
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Yazoo City Mayors
Movement of the sun and moon around the sky
Literature question
Success
Pre-Islam religion in Arabia?
Georgia's Death Row
Christmas movies during WWII
Constitutional rights + same-sex marriage (not a math equation :)
December 16
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Naughty James Gillray prints
Digital theft
Photograph of Rabbi Yosef Zemelman of Przedecz Poland
Richmond Formulae.
Geography question
How to explain invalidity of this syllogism?
For white peoples to have a dark brown skin
insurance info question
Pirate Latitudes
Help me find a Poe essay
December 17
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Unacceptable and acceptable
Where's the fallacy in this?
Summary Book on the Roman Empire
Biggest buildings
geography question
DJ Hero & Copyright Law
Earth Changes II
Geography question
Abraham Lincoln
When was she regent?
Jefferson Davis
December 18
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Socialism & the US
Jury nullification
Where is Kupfermühlen Bay?
Desecration of portraits in Iran and Islamic law
December 19
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uk law.....a need to inccrease sentences.
Why doesn't the USA invade and capture Canada?
Peru's my question
Product
How many Southeast Asians in India?
Actuarial data determination
December 20
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Concerning an East German flag designed to be hung vertically
Abstract Expressionism cartoon
Lethal injection
Christiane Wilhelmine Luise of Solms-Roedelheim and Assenheim
regent franco
Search and rescue dogs in Thanksgiving Day Parade
"a life is worth anything"
The role of birth control and foreign aid in the fight against world hunger
Ram Bahadur Bomjon
Democracy question
December 21
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African Tribe With Bright White Teeth & Eyes...
Map request
Classic Science Fiction recommendations please!
Word for the unintentional stealing of ideas?
Intelligence service of Jordan
December 22
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Archduke Ferdinand assassination
Geography question
Judaism and Death
How did Athens benefit from the discovery of silver in the mines at Laurium?
Parme and Plaisance
Pindus Principality
Obama and Schmidt
December 23
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Concentration camp Wester-Faengle
Cooking polenta
Polish-Czech Border
Milling dandelion seeds? (And other flowering seeds of umbelliferae ]]
a weird question from a first time poster
Growth
Beit Chabad in Mumbai (Bombay) India
Dutch ship timber
Does India provide citizenship to foreigners?
December 24
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In the USA, are there more White female-Asian male relationships, or are there more White male-Black female relationships?
japan feudal era chronological chain of events
What books should high school students read?
December 25
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Merry Christmas
Deprivation of political rights in China
Sets of conditions seen as indicative of stock price rise
xmas msg
Who writes the Royal Christmas Message?
Does the Queen ever sing?
DaVinci's "Last Supper"
December 26
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Princess of Girona
Marrying in Washington
Ancient Roman tunica
Hitler's badge
Law against comparison shopping as depicted in the film Holiday Affair
Age of Jesus
December 27
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us congressional districts
property tax
Marxist Internet Archive
Hitler--India--Subhas Chandra Bose---questions
Geography question - another
December 28
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Technical term for "part of the story" (drama)
Are these essential features of Gnosticism?
Question about the Portuguese Estado Novo
There's a word for that, but I don't seem to know it...
Hitler
Geting out of the US
Mineral Rights
Arrows vs musketts
Counterfeiting
Cleves and Soissons
Biological family of Jesus
Name of a certain Korean food
German PhD
Second wisest man in England
December 29
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Declining an Honorary Degree
serial killer
what did a typical Tongmenghui / Chinese republican revolutionary look like?
Photograph from Algiers 1899
Do animals have nationality / citizenship?
Purchasing music: profit breakdown
December 30
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Statute of limitations and extradition
World citizenship
Person with most citizenships
French Guiana and the freedom of panorama
Inverted price elasticity of demand
EUROPEAN HISTORY: THE IMPELLER
ANCIENT EGYPTIAN HISTORY
The Wire and the Life and Death of the American Stevedore...
Jerome's De Viris Illustribus translation
Anti-empiricism in medieval thought?
Why can't America make homosexuality legal in Afghanistan
man shaking hands with woman
December 31
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Truth or myth about reading ability
Which Eutropius is this?
Some clarification for the wikipedia article on Christmas.
Copyright exceptions
Geography Question
Obama asks moms to return to school
Exchange Rates in Germany 1930
Why isnt the European Union regarded as a country?
Why is Russia still so heavily involved in space despite a comparatively low GDP?