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British pound and friends
Jewish perspective on the failures of rebuilding the Third Temple
Were there any pro-segregationist black people in the southern U.S.A?
Turkey, censorship, emigration, Europe
April 2
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Can money buy better lawyers and an advantage in lawsuits in US?
1960s baseball scores
Qualifications for Salvation Army goods and services?
Wicca ethics
April 3
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Mass shootings outside of North America, and also non-American shootings where the perpetrator committed suicide.
Beard in mohamedans
Citing a German Margrave
Elizabeth II and Israel
English
How old are American baby boys circumcised?
Additional references for "Middlesex" novel page
April 4
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Free Books about the 1919 Paris Peace Conference Which Were Written by People Who Attended This Conference
Law: Licensing
Nurse's cap
Women kidnapped to Saudi Harems?
April 5
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Federal driver's licenses in the USA
History of British Summer Time dates
Memoir of Soviet General in Southern European Theater
Is the white population of South Africa increasing?
April 6
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Last Surviving Person Who Attended the 1919 Paris Peace Conference Question
A novel about a kid and his Triceratops
Unsure about whether this is original research
Investment Performance
Immigration restrictions on Russians ?
April 7
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Drive a rare car, see lots of rare cars?
How much assimilation?
How many Southern Baptists are Fundamentalists?
Looking for the exact peer-reviewed article...
Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Mizrahi, Kaifeng, etc.
Announcement of Final Hungary Election Results
April 8
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How did people view nature before the Enlightenment?
Women during menstruation in antiquity
April 9
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What are the oldest large football, cricket and (non-horse) track venues in use? Say 25K+?
Why are standing sections "a thing" in developed countries?
What is the oldest surviving contemporaneously dated artefact?
Fighting with Demons
Why do Protestants view the Catholic church as the whore of Babylon, but not the Orthodox churches of Eastern Europe?
Former Catholics marrying UK royals
April 10
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roshan padvi
The prices of items often end in 99 cents.
Full text of GI Bill (as of 1944)
Grimms' Fairy Tales
Selling food in the USA
List of popular contemporary fiction
Rate of China's population in growth in 1960
April 11
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Conflict of interest
Fancy French Hotel with Ballroom
Contacting author of article on Martinus Sieveking
Could a state church baptize someone for secular reasons?
White American culture? Is there such thing and if so, what is it?
comparison by design
April 12
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What does these Symbols of tattoos mean?
Does it make sense to pay your employees more, so that they can afford your products?
April 13
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Why should a company care about its own share price?
"We" in Islam
The Rosary
What happened to the British Ambassador in Germany after declaration of war by Great Britain in 1939?
Sources for "North Carolina locations by per capita income"
Selling weapons to both sides in a war
King Alexander & Queen Draga's Serbian assassins
April 14
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medical power of attorney for my adult disabled child while I am out of the country
Psalm 72:3
Roadkill
Do non-Jewish White Americans ever hold ethnic weddings?
St. Patrick's name
British Cabinet: attendees and members
What is happening here?
Trying to identify a painting
Post-World War II Aims of Britain and France in 1939-1940
April 15
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Criticism and possible further development of the Modernization Theory?
Knut Hamsun's Nobel medal
April 16
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Hatta and Dubai
Mid Atlantic states geography
April 17
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Could the Egyptian pyramids have been painted on the outside?
Russell Senate Office Building
Ice cream and beer consumption versus income
Examples of LGBT Christian evangelization
Trying to remember a short story . .?
author Jill Churchill
Difference between "Irreligion" and "Atheist/Agnostic"?
WHAT IF IT NEVER HAPPENED
April 18
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Inauguration day falls on a Sunday
What happens with the bail money?
Formologics?
Pentecostal Parenting
April 19
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Do Japanese people have special beliefs about being beheaded?
Frank Hird
April 20
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Coffee, tea, or alcohol.
how much profit do mobile manufactureres make?
Religious prohibitions on the celebration of birthdays and holidays
Active Financing Exception and CFC Look-Through Rule
Is it racist for someone to call themselves white Canadian/American of European ancestry?
April 21
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Circumcision
Need help finding a short story
Where does confiscated money go?
Paid editing
"Law and Gospel" and 16th Century Western European Christianity
poetry
April 22
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biographical details of Jakob Lorber
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
History on Author & Occultist Donald Tyson.
Currency Exchange
Why do Hare Krishna adherents view Buddhism negatively?
"Outreach Ministry"
The other timeline of ancient history
April 23
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Polk's Declaration of War
Which is more commonly used: Myanmar or Burma?
Uncertainties in opinion polls
April 24
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Patron saints
UK House of Lords age minimum
Age of consent spain - wrong information in wikipedia
Definition of Viking
Scottish/Irish currency
April 25
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Franklin Pierce
Suggested retail price
Bovine Tuberculosis
April 26
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Correlation between leadership in the workplace and social skills
Bismillah - Bohemian Rhapsody
Saga of sci-fi novels (of the same author) about a cosmic war between centuries-old creatures (probably thousands of pages)
April 27
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Would this count as a primary or secondary source? (anthropology master's thesis)
Canadian version of national crime victimization survey?
Political direction of national socialism
United Kingdom a federalistic state?
Is this map accurate?
music similar to Miserere mei, Deus
April 28
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Request to add photo of eminent Economist
Russian Air Force
Post-World War I Plebiscite (Referendum) Requests Which Were Rejected
Syrian Civil War
Basdeo Panday
Is blue hair a "thing" in England for older women?
Corporal Punishment
April 29
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Mailer/Behan punch-up
Anglo-Saxon exiles after 1066
John Bedford Leno
April 30
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short story identification
Diplomatic immunity and firefighters
Combat footage
Notable members of the British Home Guard in World War II