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October 1
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How many black African immigrants in India and China?
Blacks in South America
Economics research
5 most important dates in classical antiquity
monks walk
Afro-Arab
Presidential nominee
When did Indians start moving to England?
Architect
Plato and Aristotle on Knowledge
teosophy and root races
October 2
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Psychological self-treatment
Nigerian press
Dass local government
Open meeting vs closed meeting
¿ Is “ textual ” copy of the Bible ?
October 3
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uncommitted ohio voters
Hawaii Prepaid Healthcare Act
Treasury_security#TIPS
Titanic (1997 film)
Indigenous patterns throughout Central America
Chinese in Africa
Pyramid
Islam fasting and activities
What is this symbol?
Back issues of Irano-Judaica ?
If two gay consenting adults have sex in KSA, is it illegal?
Baron George Wrangell
October 4
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jocasta
The Man Who Liked Dickens
Affair of the Diamond Necklace question
David Gisser
Sistine chapel ceiling - classification requested
McCain as Maverick
October 5
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Today's bailout verses the 1929 depression
English Consumer Law
London railway station logos
is there any user with astrology and magick knowledge?
Why isn't this little girl....
Election of 1824 electoral college
book a rabbi carries
October 6
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New Photographic Genre (style), undeclared, as such, anywhere...
Short story called "The Mnemone"
Political careers
companies for $0.99c
hindu
Politics and Tribalism
Clock painting
Afro-Desi
October 7
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Existing Gulags?
Industries open to the world to compete in but utterly dominated by a region or cultural bloc
Treasury bonds' risk
Offline information
Proof of address
do violinists get callouses the way guitar players do?
fly"s eye dome
When was the last time Michigan voted for a Republican presidential candidate?
politic in USA
Searching for an article on the problem of bearerless names
Need reference re: Aroostook War
October 8
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Opinions
Zhuang people
2008 Thai political crisis
Swaziland's Territory Claims
Pashtun
Baloch sindhi film industry
Cults
what makes a new edition of a book?
The Electoral College
Senators Obama and McCain, after the election
Chinese reform
Napoleon
October 9
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date formats around the world
Hummanities homework!!
I can't find the damn website!
Canterbury Tales
Why Asian Women & White men?
October 10
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Austrapolithecus
Russia/Georgia conflict
Unusual, ribbony necktie thing
Creative Commons question
Collateral damage of fixing the financial system
President and VP boarding the same plane
countries with the least discrimateion? [discrimination]
Highest Stock Price
If Palin's elected, what happens to her governorship?
Painting of George III
October 11
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Why the Japanese Navy didn't occupy Hawaii in World War 2?
Looking for a quote allegedly by Bertrand Russell
law
Causes of death in royal families in history
In defense of poor women
Nazi Germany map, confused
October 12
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Michigan online high schools
Titanic
October 13
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UK Citizenship
What does a 0.5% lowering of interest mean?
Modern use of pirate flag (Jolly Roger)
Alchemical Image Query?
Does the term Neo-Hinduism have any consistant meaning?
October 14
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Building of the Parthenon
Remedios Varo painting
Hal Bevan Petman
Looking for an image: Badge of the House of Windsor
British finance rescue
Credit default swaps
World Population by Gender
Economics
WW2: European collaboration with Third Reich Germany/Austria
October 15
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St Paul's Cathedral blueprint
Vincent Van Gogh quote
Archeology: Mega
reagan, ronald
who is this guy?
Origins of a phrase: "Like ships in the night"
LAND RIGHTS AND THE RIGHT TO VOTE!
Nature of Opinions (I am not asking for an opinion about something)
Poet Gilbert Maxwell
1920's Marriage Laws
If the President and Vice -President are dead...
Presidential "Candidate" or "President Elect" Succession
October 16
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Is China's political system robust enough to withstand the global financial crisis
UK Banking problem ... solution
President and Vice President nominees
What determines the value of money and is there a safety for capitalist economies from the hoarding of wealth by the wealthy?
October 17
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Roanoke colony
Fire Alarm
What did John Wesley thought of the French Revolution?
Plato's and Aristotle's schools
Prediction in the Social Science
India Today
Sueing for Peace
Subsidized Housing
October 18
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How long since the Chicago Tribune endorsed a Democratic nominee for President?
Library Records
What is this a reference to?
collect data on India's current account balance, capital account balance and forex reserves for the period 2001-2006 and list the major features
First photograph
US demographics by state
Jack Kerouac - "On the road" - looking for a quotation
Foreclosed land
Decline of science fiction?
How much money does a porno website make?
October 19
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Prime Minister of Israel
Estimated Living AND dead world population as of 2008?
hindu religion
Origin of quote
women in public life
Judicial
Investment Trader Weekly Report
Iceland has gone bankrupt -really?
Kiwanis Club International constitution and bylaws
poverty
Can USA Democratic or Republican Parties expel members?
October 20
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history of the lily as a symbol
The Chosen quotation
Obscure George Orwell question
Painting of a girl
VAT
Grounding/justification for human rights
Hereditary peers
Heavenbound?
October 21
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Finance - Rights and Warrants
Latin initials
Copyrighted music in non-commerical media
Japanese Americans During WWI
Okinawa Dugong v. Rumsfeld
Cemeteries
Childrens Book Title
New Hampshire dates for voting since 1776
ROBERT CLARK -NAME CHANGED IN 1958 IN N.Y.C.
Candidates from former American states
BET telethon
October 22
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"Joe the Plumber" airtime
Re: Which historical Pharaoh would be a possible candidate for the one Yu-Gi-Oh! makes mention of.
Dating Australian girls
Identification of national dress?
Who was the first pope to wear glasses?
Short story about man dying on the moon
Scala cronicas
Insider trading & credit crisis
When will the result of the 2008 Presidential Election come out?
Oath making and the need to speak
October 23
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Double negative law terminology
George IV - date oddity on map
American elections?
Inflation in Britain
US President and Vice President not allowed on same plane
What's the title of a newspaper called?
The Buddha
Invention
what had the greater total sum effect on human civilization?
October 24
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Size of US debt under Republican presidents vs. Democratic presidents
Politics of Japan and UN Security Council Reform
Indios visiting Pedro II of Brazil in 1898 photograph
Village Cry Gysin photo
history of gurmukh singhwala
Biblioteca Reale
electronic publishing
the difference between fencing and swordsmanship
Jorg Haider
Ulster County Gazette
October 25
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Swordfighting representations
China, India, Japan and Russia
Such Sweet Thunder
Bangladeshi Buddhist and Christians vs. politics
Eastern European human appearances
ex-USSR city name changes
kichener
Can anyone here tell me anything about this photograph?
Statistics For Ministry Burnout after Bible College/Seminary
If a president resigns, why does he submit his resignation to the Secretary of State?
Did Cicero Really Say This?
October 26
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Now for something my friend and I disagree on...
Did Enoch Really Die ?
Obscure mythological question
Sagacity
English professors and felonies
Flag
Diwali and Durga Puja
October 27
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Michel Suleiman iftar party
US Presidential elections
Longest lived minister
Newspaper endorsement party switches in the United States presidential elections
Military Strategies in Feudal Japan
Six Story Types
Religion - Buddhism
Alaskan Independence Party
Is Mary Jesus's mother or wife?
Magic 60 for US Senate filibuster
October 28
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Coporate Social Responsiblity
Aid for Microsoft in Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008?
How does a share dividend make shareholders better off?
Canadian and American human appearances
men sexual behaviour
The ACTUAL English "Throne"
Hazara People
Afro-Desi
U.S. between WW1 and the Cold War
US Export Control intent
What is a person?
Massacre of Glencoe - the song
Five minutes of fame... in 1700
October 29
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Statue on the Zeil in Frankfurt Germany
Chair not allowed to vote?
Always 4 years between US elections?
Wearing motorcycle helmets inside shops (UK)
The daily lives of people in history
Lilith Fact or fiction?
Volkswagen
tag British news presenter and politicians are wearing at the moment
October 30
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the lords prayer
Willian McGonagall
Asian to White Racial Transformation
Abraham killing an Idolator
Lying in polls
The legal importance of a comma
October 31
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Enjambment
Homosexuality
Sierra Leone Civil War
Yet another US election question
UN
Baby slapping
Halloween, an adult holiday?
Coca-Cola
does someone know about this book
President
Did an American soldier ever kill a Russian soldier in the Cold War?