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May 1
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Shanty town and slum
"Murder on the Orient Express" question
Popular critics of Internet communities?
Ancient Egyptian development pace
Software playlists
Male Mormon missionaries vs. female Mormon missionaries
May 2
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Best selling books
May 3
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Are we getting dumber?
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Saudi princes and all that
Connections between Isis (Auset) and Ishtar?
May 4
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"Government intervention" as a misnomer
Freedom charter monument kliptown
May 5
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The long arm of the victim
effect of gold influx,
Gold standard and redeeming the "physical" metal
How did Ireland become christian before Britain?
May 6
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Business speeches
Why don't many sports like accuracy?
Anyone know this novella/short story?
St. Leo of the Catholic Church
May 7
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non-profit fundraiser limitations
Full Day Kindergarten
Pope of royal descent
May 8
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"these dark Satanic mills" vs "those dark Satanic mills"
Jakob Lorber
About the 30-day SSI rule - could I just visit a US diplomatic mission once a month to get around it?
Preferring faith over personal evidence?
Crafter too good, King cripples him.
Funding PhD students
May 9
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Screaming at concerts
Resting place of Kings of Naples
Why is the Vice President not Acting President while the President is out of the country?
Why are SATs and ACTs at like 7 am?
Adriano fiorentino
May 10
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Carlist and the Pragmatic Sanction of 1830
Kangar paintings
Schools making kids tour hardened Correctional facilities
Anyone have access to the following Italian source?
UK Base rate vs lending rates
Venetian ceremonial galley of the 1700s
Who was David Murdoch referenced on page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_frontier#Prostitution
Female United States Navy SEALs
May 11
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Battle of Berlin footage
Wikpedia errors becoming an Internet meme: Peter Katin
Ray Kassar
Belligerents' diplomacy during WWII
Forty Martyrs
Ancient Peru
What is the real per capita income of the USA?
May 12
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Religions with inferior Creators?
The draft
Saint related superstitions
Why do I pretty much never get a tax return, no matter how much I make?
International Economic Commissions
May 13
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Any visible parts common to " Statue of Liberty" and "Eiffel Tower"
State borders in the USA
Makeup
Amending the U.S. Constitution
Legal question
Friend Of The Court
Water faucets
Pink Dollar generated in the United States
May 14
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Events known by different names in different countries
enquiry about the original book of Robinson Crusoe
Arbeitskarte work papers during World War II
What is the problem with a morphine overdose as a means of execution?
If gays had rights, thieves would have rights too
West Georgia, Alaska
Disability
Trying to find source of quotation - Foot family (British politicians)
Origin of law enforcement as a distinct occupation
Chinese history / fiction question
May 15
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why does being Jewish descent mean only through one's Jewish mother and not father?
May 16
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US President Impeachments
Oldest recorded voice of a president
May 17
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posters with similar causes
Jakob Lorber's personal life
how various instution promote culture in uganda?
What was the first state with a republic government system?
Public records / public information
London Auxiliary Ambulance Service
Queen Tuarii
May 18
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"SOCIETEY ENDRACT"
Tahiti queen journal illustre
Gigong and yoga
May 19
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Reliable biography of Nikola Tesla
A general blackout
Isidore Chesse
Corporate influence over politics in first world democracies
wondering about a strange sociology documentary
Three newspapers that dropped Doonesbury because of the Andy Lippincott story
May 20
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Long and short term U.S. Natural Rate of Unemployment derivations?
How do I not plagiarize myself
Rule Of Not Ruling Anything (Out?)
Australia
Global net worth
May 21
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American soldiers and American society's regard for them
Crucifixions with nails & rope
Nuclear powers joining the nuclear non-proliferation treaty
Phoenix Program targets / victims - "guilty" versus "innocent"
Patron saints
us senate
Battles where a small number of troops have defeated a much larger force?
May 22
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Henry Nott
Adam Benjamin photo
May 23
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Best Illuminati revival attempt so far?
Anybody know the history of music?
What is going on in Thailand?
Benjamin L. Marks
May 24
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London to Toronto and Toronto to London trips and Toronto to Birmingham
identity of a portrait
Chinese phrase
America, Capitalism and Christianity
Environment, Capitalism and the Christian Right
How to get archives of French newspapers?
Stone Mountain in Georgia
May 25
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List of wali called upon in tawassul?
Racism in pirate times?
Is there such a graph that displays different regions of political views that correspond to two variables: economic and personal freedom?
"Jerusalem" in Catholic churches
May 26
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René Gillotin, Portrait of Marquesan chiefs
what is the meaning of "fructus est fullonius"
Company debt collections
Did Elliot Rodger have a mental illness
Unanimous consent vs. 100-0
Largest bank
Question about the growth of Wikipedia
Hesse-Philippsthal and Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld
May 27
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Ranavalo Manjaka
Question about Chinese references to Indian monument
Literal gold diggers
American Legal System
Are there Jewish or Christian equivalents to Islamic sharia law?
Why is the Quds Force called the Quds Force
May 28
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Matching point sizes of different typefaces for visual size equivalence
Henry Adams
Term for a fellow disabled person
European peoples who attend school in America
Bias against people with disabilities?
May 29
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Serhiy Tihipko
RICHARD WRIGHT
Treason by another name, and the U.S. constitution
Banking hours worldwide
Stock market valuation
The Russian Provisional Government's Decision to Remain in WWI Being Influenced by the United States's Decision to Enter WWI?
Why aren't cards bigger?
May 30
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Not a cheese-eating surrender monkey
Scenic Route, Dalkey to dublin
Process of becoming a church member
Music notation question
Does playing chess make you smarter?
Majority owner of public company
May 31
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Inquiry into the conviction of David Eastman
Conversion to Judaism
William Little Lee
Indian toilets
Did the majority of the Chinese and Soviet populations endure Axis occupation during WW2?
Romans
Movement of Soviet infrastructure east of the Urals during the GPW
Homework
Longest tenure in a US House district
The Structure of Shakespearean Tragedy