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August 1
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- Why didn't Europeans die from a lack of immunity to diseases in the new world?
- Business question: Joint parenthood for companies?
- Pilgrimages, succession, infighting
- Kronos's palace vs. Valhalla
- Charles I of England's "tyranny"?
- Flat caps & baseball (cricket too?) caps
- Why is Berkshire Hathaway stock so expensive and who buys it?
- Thailand
- Bohemond I of Antioch
- Profit is not a four-letter word
- Wagner's Das Rheingold
- Locating an old rail line
- Divorce Rate among Christians and Atheists
August 2
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- An earth without humans
- The name
- Methodism = Puritanism?
- British Isles diaspora studies
- Avignon Papacy & Counter-Reformation Catholicism
- Austria vs Prussia
- relatively recent Japanese short-story collection with S&M themes
- Legislators mass resign and recontest?
- Roman Senate assembly
- Crusader military order ethnicities & the Reformation
August 3
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- Henry VIII's dual titles and powers: precedent?
- Should athletes taking Stimulant be banned from competition forever?
- Dover, Connecticut
- Himmler speech
- Slave owners after abolition
- Acting as a national leader
- Rosencratz and Guildenstern in Act 2 Scene 2 of Hamlet
- Serbian coat-of-arms identification
- Army's traditional use of American Indian tribal names for its helicopters
- Royal veto in the UK
- John Kufuor's graduation
- Judaen monarchy
August 4
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- Agricultural maps of England & France
- American Cities
- History topics regarding Shanghai, China
- Ordinary buildings in Ancient Greece
- WWII
- The Plantagenet Inheritance
- The Culture of Privacy in Britain
- 90% of content is created by 10% of editors
- Death of one person = death of the world
- THERE IS NO INFORMATION ABOUT COPAS FARM , LONDON
August 5
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- Lancaster (& Tudor) and York
- Best NYC Photospots
- U.S. Senate quorum calls
- Civilians on Apache AH-64D
- Salvation Army
- Personality tests in careers recruitment
- Qing Dynasty bronzes and the sabotaged auction
August 6
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- "At your desecration"
- Woman in the Catholic church
- Critical thinking and logical thinking
- Constitutional Requirement(s) to Stand for Election to the Office of the Vice-President
- Falerii
- adoption in 11th-12th century Judaism
- unemployment numbers
- Ratio of mean average and median average incomes
August 7
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- Execution Reactions
- What was the name of the Republican Hispanic Supreme Court nominee?
- Lieutenant Zumwelt
- product testing
- deity
- corruption
- The health effects of prayer
August 8
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- What if there is no majority and minority???
- Luxembourg's electoral system
- God's apprentices
- Theory of getting rich
- Divorce in ancient Rome
August 9
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- Permanent budget bills
- Granville Roland Fortescue
- Religion, Succession and Monarchy
- Marginal valuation
- Independence and Recognition of Countries
- Why are different, seemingly disparate political views (seemingly) correlated?
- What novel was this?
- Sales of the Bible versus sales of the Qur'an
- Non-hearers of information
- Lucius Aemilius Paulus Macedonicus#Family life and descendants
August 10
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- Non Bourbon
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:O%27DowdArms.jpg
- Racism Israel
- The influence of birth and sexual order in large families
- exact location in North Carolina
- Maureen Mwanawasa
August 11
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- For people to be train to be a nurse
- Occupation of former royalty
- What do you call temperature sensitive cloth/embroidery/manufacturing...?
- What's the term for using something as a tool outside intended use?
- Sexual abuse: trauma in adults and children
- Information about Evan John, author.
- study of racism in young children
- Alexander Dubček - western propaganda about this once leader of Czecheslovakia?
- What have the eastern terrorists got against the west?
- Where did the wealth of the British royal family come from?
- $ from a cow
- Royalty
August 12
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- Starting a political consultancy in India
- Purpose of cylinder at back of Renault FT-17 tank
- Jewish homosexuals adopting children
- Select Retail Holdings Limited
- Do non-Christians children have piggy banks?
- Marquis de Crecy 1800s
- collection of poems
- Split Duchies
- Value of a bee hive
- Working on my book again...
- How does SWIFT work?
- Oldest New Testament copy
August 13
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- Danish princes and princesses
- Meles Zenawi's skin so tan
- Satan, Lucifer and the Bible
- PRESIDENTIAL AND VICE PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION
- Less known cutting-edge authors from around the world
- Sri Lanka
- Blue Roofed Buildings
- Allied Bombing in WWII
- Polity IV and Freedom House
- Why does Paul Biya look so young
- More on US presedential succession
August 14
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- Danish titles
- What sort of photographic processes are these?
- Best investment
- Cross-party voting in US federal elections
- Opposition to health care reform in the US
- olympic cities
- Robert Mugabe suspect of killing people?
August 15
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- Islamization in Ancient Mongolia
- Church use of popular music
- Abdoulaye Wade's famous shaven head
- What is the difference between empiricism and mechanistic materialism?
- Bangladesh student wing
- Christ killers
- Credit card merchant fees
- Dhabihah and hunting
August 16
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- What's REALLY the oldest profession?
- US Social Security numbers
- Are poor people in USA really buying homes?
- What cartoon is this describing?
- Hideous mermaid image
- Why'd they rename it Dominican Republic?
- What was Hitler's opinion of Republicanism?
- List of Libraries
- Using debit or credit card in supermarket - how much info can they get about me?
- Agricultural Subsidies
- UK's action in Turks and Caicos Islands
- Is there really a TV news station?
August 17
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- List of Arts and Sciences
- Indonesian ballot paper of 1955
- meaning of ww2 japanese submarine designations
- Looking for a Captain Cook work
- Tracing the movements of George VI of the United Kingdom
- Terms of the lease of the New Territories, Hong Kong
- White vs. APL family
- islamic monks?
- Elections of Kenya and mozambique
- Does Congress (in the US) have a source control system for the actual words going into a bill?
- Mexican vs. white interracial marriage
- citing music
- Judaism Ethnic divisions vs. denomination
- Districts of West Bengal versus religion
August 18
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- North Americal Aboriginal Treaties
- Caucasian Eyes
- rotten vegetables at protests and theater
- Danish titles
- Logical fallacy: Good or bad based on who does it?
- Is there any religion where there are two good Gods?
- Ethnic groups of India vs. Buddhism
- Bangladeshi Buddhist
- Wikipedia sentient?
- 16th century
- Latin Language in Hieroglyphic Bible
August 19
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- Queen Rania of Jordan
- What novel was this?
- Order in the next ten minutes!
- Relations
- Social responsibilities
- Reasons Behind Structure of Names
- The first Women suffrage?
- Opportunity cost
- How would the Black Plague have impacted Native Americans, Australians?
- Map of Napoleon's trails
- white people to have a darker skin tone
August 20
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- Education system in Bangladesh
- World Trade Center site
- Scipio the younger death (129 BC)
- Economic state of Britain, circa 1965-68
- Mass murder in Ancient Rome
- us life expectancy by quartile?
- Dancing about architecture
- Uganda and Senegal election
- Displaying flag
August 21
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- hair care during WWII
- Anselme Lavigne
- Should religion be separated from the Humanities Reference Desk?
- Napoleon's burial arrangements
- No survivors of Unit 731?
- Historical woman
- Greek orthodox church
- Image - story behind it
August 22
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- Entrepreneurship/business question: the success of iTunes
- Truths which are allegedly created by opinions about what the truth is
- War Declarations
- Focus on premarital sexual relations in Abrahamaic religions
- What is a "scripture reader"?
- Cum Natura Humana
August 23
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- Internal heirarchies in Venetian guilds
- Since popping over to Europe to save the day with the help of a smart, gorgeous sidekick isn't a viable career option . . .
- Siege of Petropavlovsk
- Pretending that an author is still alive
- How best to spend £1000000 to increase the sum of happiness the most?
- Can anyone identify this obscure anti-smoking parody song?
- Ten Commandments and Gentiles
- Bad person, who is a "Bad person"
August 24
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- Success at University for Private and State School Pupils
- Vasily Zaitsev
- Islam in the Kings of Georgia
- Libertarianism and inheritance law
- Falcon
- Globalization
August 25
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- taxing in US and EU for website based in India
- U.S. Social Security benefit entitlement for a former, non resident, spouse.
- General interest question: numbers of ministers in governments
- Questions about Georgian royal succession
- will this startup work?
QuestionThe Biggest- How many arts and sciences are there in the world
- WWI History question on Misc desk
- John 3:16
- Scholarship abroad
- Prison riot in Kentucky
- Ancient Greek Theater
August 26
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- Direct reports VS Functional reports
- Cook vs. Lewis (1951), Canada
- Role and status of women under the Franco regime in Spain
August 27
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- Malvinas Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean - Territorial platform of Argentina
- Oldest active law
- US Civil War
- Turtles and Elephants
- tort law(english)
- Pan Am Flight 103 Question
- Weird date in a contemporary document
- Black people's birth rate & big households?
August 28
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- Architectural style of church
- References for Winston I. Nunes
- Cutlery illegal for under 18 in UK?
- Legal status of public sex
- Unusual looking "hats" in pic
- Most important battle in history
- how similar are japanese culture and korean culture?
- Captured US soldiers during the Iraq War 2003
- Sociology of wiki
- The Mounties always get their man . . .
- Western dress code in Ottoman Balkan?
- The first theatre and actors in Estonia
August 29
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- Biblical misquotes (article: Rabbi)
- california labor law
- Crypto-atheism and Christian denominations
- panerotic
- British Patriotic Song
- How exactly did Dr. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa obtain U.S. citizenship?
- Belgium Family Law
August 30
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- Countries without legal recognition of marriage
- The pioneer (painting)
- Pakistani Politics
- Original philosophy texts to read by a beginner
- Prostitution in the old muslim world (pree the 1800s)
- Number of Iranians living in exile
- Not a question
- Joe Biden and the Little League World Series
- Indonesian tsunami museum