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December 1
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Oldest African American vote
Air Canada strikes
What counts towards GDP?
Legal term for ambiguous clause interpreted strictly
Where do White Men find their Asian Wives?
Famous black Americans named after famous whites
Metropole Hotel, Belfast
Midrash Citation Help?
Trilingualism in Pakistan and India
Robin Hood's king
When/ if science proves there is no god or that god is not necessary
Windows or open square on boat?
December 2
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Illustration identification
Stations of the Cross at Pájara
Nothing
Story about a child who enjoys pain
Women allowed to study in Portugal
What is the difference between "Christian Fundamentalist" vs. "Conservative Christian" vs. "Christian Right"?
Specific Walmart Profit Margin Question
A little incident in the library
December 3
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Taiwan (ROC) presidential debate
Black people of Pacific
Israeli fighter pilots tested when young?
Brideshead Revisited reference
Contribution of Eating to Cholesterol Levels
Ulster Protestants and the Great Famine
Greater Toronto Area politicians of visible minority background
LGBT adoption and lack of male/female role model
International law - military action against Iran
Who did Poe read?
Reply of the Sultan to the Zaporozhians
Why is the United States Constitution so short?
December 4
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Names of wars in the USA
Buongiorno ?
Why do so many Europeans hate Gypsies so much?
GK question -- Business , Brands, companies
List of 1996 Supreme Court of Canada decisions in Wikipedia
Tui Manuʻa Elisala
Monotheism & Old Testament
Was there any attempt to link Constantinople to the myth of Rome's Trojan origins?
Why academics don't contribute to Wikipedia
Were Monaco or part of Switzerland ever part of an Arab caliphate?
December 5
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Last woman hanged in thew UK?
Budget cuts and "creating efficiencies"
plush version
Yugoslav navy
Christmas tree
December 6
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World War Three
Stalin speaking Georgian
I need to find the cheapest community college in Kansas.
Josef Bühler's foot
Other name on the second term's ballot
December 7
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Gay stereotypes
Royal republicanism
1990 Canterbury vs Wellington
When is consent given to be governed?
Do you need faith to live?
December 8
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Languages of Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland
Partial globe
Syria vs France
Ottoman Sudan?
Demographics South Africa
Difference between generic and brand-name guidelines for biologics
Afghanistan time
December 9
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Germanic people nations Roman Catholic and Protestant
How to write well
TRADOC trine
Tui Manuʻa Elisala
What type of military equipment did the Qing use during the Opium Wars?
monarchs of Arabian Gulf
Looking for Moroccan princess married to Lebanese
Black man speaketh with forked tongue (X-Factor)
Empress Dowager Bo's tomb
December 10
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Question Moved to Languages Desk
1930 Census Cook Co, Illinois, USA
Liberal Party of Canada counterparts
Saudi Arabian Airlines headquarters
republican party vs democrat party (US)
December 11
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Grand OLD Party?
Interest on gold accounts?
Peru/Fujimori bio
Thomas Nast and His Terrifying Santa
Gender of Indian River Names
Andrew Johnson and overthrow plot
biography of an artist
History of DC Voting Rights
December 12
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Japanese mythology
Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee Painting
Pro-islam Parties in Europe
Casualties among USCT during ACW (regarding casualties among white troops)
Building options reccomendations
GK Question
African leaders
Who Built the Pyramids?
Muslim empires Europe
Elevating a principality to a kingdom
December 13
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Mayan inheritence Customs
Help in identifying antiquity
December 14
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How are aerial victories recorded?
Wikipedia and calendars
UK Pension Pot
Wad Hijam in Sudan
Being easily offended
December 15
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Animal representations of countries
Military monuments in 18th century British India
IQ test for research purposes
December 16
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Camila
Bank and Credit Union
Converting from musical notation to SI units
Zju-27, Zu-27 or Sic-27
Wearing a tartan
European monarchs relating to Queen Elizabeth II of UK
December 17
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Quote
Dream dictionaries
Buddhist schools
Charles IV of the United Kingdom
December 18
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Human Relationships
Attention span
Munich, Tennessee
UKIP multiculturalism
The most intriguing quotation in Genesis
Is there a reason why monotheism is so popular in society?
Why the English Wikipedia is racist in some articles?
December 19
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Stolen credit card used at USPS
USA presidential veto override
memories of a bygone business
Street number required for defunct Belfast pub
Languages of the Jeberti
Variability in crime rates
Nazism and Occultism
Atheism in a novel
Kingdom of Imereti
December 20
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Why'd it take so long for books (codex form) to be invented?
Detectives series Scandanavia England Netherlands Belgium
Louis XIIII
Pyongyang Overwhelmed with Grief at Demise of Kim Jong Il
Name origins
to know about humanity and sexual questions
Convicting John Doe
Bharatiya Janata Party Khalistan movement
Pro-violence murals in Northern Ireland
Teeny tiny books
Arguments for Anti-Homosexuality
December 21
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Who was the first child born into a European family in an American Colony?
Letter Zyu
Looking for info on painter Lauritz Holst
North Korea
religious beliefs concerning man made perfumes
Sex offender's "the talk" with neighbours
MLA citation style
That half trillion
December 22
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Economic questions
Christian converts
citations
Quest plot
Word for Male Orgasm in Pre-Tudor England
Norman D. Hill
New Mexico birth certificates
December 23
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Religious divisions: leadership vs dogma
Who will become president of the United States if....
Was Henry Ward Beecher colonel in an USCT regiment ?
What significance does voter registration have in the US, and is your registration public?
December 24
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Anonymous Authors
James Cook's feather cloak(s)
Der Holle Rache
December 25
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Count Ciano
Arguments against 'religion provides support' or 'religion provides a sense of community'
Democratic roosters
When was the regency?
Hawaiian Islands
Last British royal to die abroad before Diana
Elizabethan fiction and the Reformation
December 26
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Haughty Byzantines
mystery novel dealing multiculturalism
Scandinavian mystery writers
Psychology textbook recommendation
Westernmost naval battle of the American Revolution
Which Earl of Northumberland?
December 27
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About US Congress
How popular is the emperor in Japan?
How did the descendants of Cain survive the flood?
Sir Arthur E Turner-Thomas VC KG
Parents who left their children behind in the care of family while moving to another country
female scholars of Islam
Afro-Latin Americans slavery
A taxable value of two geld units
Mayan Civilization and Technology?
December 28
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French Revolution with New France
US Congress
Police stealing soda in Hilltop Mall
What's it called?
Islamic Africa empires
Conspirator in the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand who later became a WW2 Tito partisan?
Named air battles
December 29
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Would anyone kindly explain how North Korea even OBTAINED Detroit iron?
Imprisonment and voting rights
US President vs. US Congress
Bedroom window
Amadeus
Bosnian election
December 30
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US government
Rebecca (novel)
ISBNs
Louisiana Native Guards in Pascagoula (09-4-1863) :?
Cut-up technique
Towns which are surrounded by larger towns
December 31
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Repercussions of Huguenot
Old editions of Old Farmer's Almanac
Did William A. Wallace write his onwn memorial address?
From any well-known business (offline and on), what can we get for free (or a good discount) on our birthdays?
Source of a Quotation by Dietrich von Hildebrand
India-China border
US Congress (predictor)
Accessible Translations