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September 1
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Insanity defense
Price of sarcophagus setup like Tutankhamun's.
Music
September 2
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Grave candle or lanterns
Third-party interference in diplomatic immunity
Nothing known about the man who ended WWII?
Early child welfare charitable institutions
The importance of environmental conservation and animal rights in non-White cultures
Organized crime
Emma or Ælfgifu
Another diplomacy question
September 3
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Earliest British queen consort to have worn a crown
Can plastic surgery substantially alter someone's appearance?
Greetings
Do Spartacus (TV series) represents the reality?
Do schoolchildren in the developed world, 21st century, learn how to write letters or send e-mail or both?
Viking boat launching
Viking ship gargoyle
September 4
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home prices in the us
Lietchenstein
Discrimination against people on the basis of how they smell
financial projections
French revolution death
red baiting/lavender baiting
German or American insignia
Are Catholic priests allowed to consume delicacies, sweets, and spicy foods?
Charles II of Navarre
Cutting in movies and literature
Where do Catholic priests live?
I forgot the name, help me please
September 5
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"Collectivism"
Comparison of loyalism and republicanism in British Isles & North America
Society Islands
Biography of Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Bin Saud
Most powerful governor in the U.S.
Le Figaro
Question about Mr. Ernest E. Evans
Can a legal system be so perfect that you never ever convict an innocent guy?
Mysterious symbol on bottle top
September 6
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John Maynard Keynes
national guidlines
Country with most sports events won at the World Championship level
September 7
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Help me
Name that book
What type of fallacy is this?
September 8
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Poetical testament
Causing death maliciously and legally?
If evolution doesn't exist ...
Is North Korea so poor and under-developed because of communism?
September 9
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Question regarding the Tower of Babel myth
Crashed airliner - airline name and logo painted out
Tolkien and poverty
18thC Head dress
Did Hitler offer to deport all the Jews in Occupied Europe to the Soviet Union?
September 10
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Does anyone here have a subscription to Time Magazine?
If Jesus died for our sins...
Private schools vs. public schools
Songwriters whose work is in the public domain (UK)
German Togoland
Deer in Wales
The Copeland Gang
September 11
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Defense against rape accusations in India
What sentence could William Ruto face?
Imperial Roman Army Picture Error
What now for Thompson and De Blasio campaigning?
human guinea pigs
Hindi literature
How much money goes into the Roman Catholic Church every year?
Grandchildren of Henry VIII - supposed daughters of his son Henry FitzRoy
Russian Beauharnais
Who saw Christian art?
September 12
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National Flower of Germany?
Names that used to be considered stereotypical for black Americans
Evangelical School of Smyrna
September 13
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Slander
Oldest spitfire pilot and 'still living'
A church that doesn't preach the gospel?
September 14
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Search NYTimes Best seller list by author or title
Counties in Australia
September 15
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Plank length
Good parenting?
child abuse videos
A textbook of Jewish rhetorics?
Scotland post Independence Referendum 2014
Buying a barrel of oil
Muslims and Arabs' Hatred of Jews
September 16
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How can I work property rights for something ?
Pads
Mass executions of the poor
Did Hitler have any retirement plans?
September 17
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Did the Germans fight back at Dresden?
Transsexuality: do psychoanalysts get referral bonuses?
Do Indians love or hate the Gandhis (Indira and Rajiv)
Racism among Europeans?
Trip to New World
September 18
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13, Duncan Street, Houndsditch
How predictable are divorces?
Oldest residential building?
Talmud Schottenstein Ed. Text in all upper case type
Sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly
List of territorial disputes
Quebec history
September 19
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Buying stock in unemployment?
Borders in Oceania
How is pastoral care different from helping people with emotional-spiritual concerns?
September 20
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Translation
Spartans Helots
'Role reversal' in political thought?
Legal question: Would Charlie Harper's daughter have a claim to his estate?
Misogyny article - section on Judaism
Karen Carpenter's Voice
Pre-modern poetry containing time travel or other worldy beings...
September 21
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White poverty in America
Population Gap
How many (notable) Roman Catholics and ex-Roman Catholics are also researchers/scientists using embryonic stem cell research?
September 22
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Psychology, religion, political views, and occupation
When could the default on the US debt limit take place?
September 23
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Languages
Individual prior to society and vice versa
Ukraine and Belorussia at the UN
Justice delayed is justice denied
Literary influence over French Revolution.
Spiritual vs. __________
Some statistical / financial questions
September 24
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When did British monarchs stop authoring the speech from the throne?
September 25
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Positions of the worlds religions regarding the morality of bringing the dead back to life.
Does anybody know what was the fate of this boy?
The Sanhedrin
William Calley, My Lai Massacre
What proportion of the time do Christians, on average, devote to God, Mary, or the saints?
Constructive vote of no confidence
Lyndon Johnson's inaugural parade
The Medicis breaking Machiavelli's arms
Why do people vote?
September 26
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Georges Darboy
Bullying in schools
Any well-constructed studies on premium costs under the Affordable Care Act?
How do you <something> two contradictions?
Map about ages of consent in the world: Peru and Spain correct?
how can guys see toilet seats?
September 27
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how are short positions closed when markets jump on open?
High risk group
The Young Turks - An offensive name?
Squat toilet demonstration
Give me examples of the Five Points of Calvinism or TULIP
William-Adolphe Bouguereau - Work Interrupted
September 28
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Totalitarian ideologies
Story about Enyclopedists who devise a fictional island that becomes real
Please identify this French classical musique
In subject "Greeks"
What gives value to non-dividend paying stock?
Police State
What are the real chances for change in gay rights in Iran with President Hassan Rouhani?
What was the first U.S. health insurance plan to exclude coverage for autism and why did they do it?
Nirvana and the end of the world
September 29
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exact moment for pictorial meme
Age of High School graduation in Colombia
technical question on microeconomics: why don't more people use personal buyers (micro economics question)
Bari and Rossano
French books for beginners
A rug "made by Alecto" . Alecto ? ...
Corporal punishment in schools
Is BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit District) considered to be a government agency?
Identification of a manuscript
September 30
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Identify this British WWI Quote
Russian War on Chechnya
Why do people think that death is bad?
New York county judges
Very Early Chinese Capitalism
"80% of religious persecution"
Government shutdown - Explain it to me like I'm 5..
I Need Help Finding Whole Deutsche Bank Report for its Population Projections