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May 1
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- Merovingian bloodlines
- British Army - Essex Regiment in 1944
- G SUMIT
- Ancient ruins- location and/or name?
- ancient indian quilt image search
- famous literary writers of the 16th century and before
- why don't jews eat pork?
- french women -- urban legend?
- The Mongols
- Children's Laureate
- Critques of Status in Anthropology
May 2
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- re: Robert Williams (psychologist)
- IIPA (Institute of Incorporated Public Accountants) Ireland www.iipa.ie
- Checking credentials
- does any country accept israeli citizens as their own?
- East European equivalent of "Frank"
- Legality of preventing sports fans of rival team to attend games
May 3
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- How to get displayed in an Art Gallery
- Bank interest rate
- finding out the year of publication
- Which Nowe Miasto?
- What is a criminal?
- california trespassing
- Emperor of the Franks
- squeemish ancient history question
- Best way to make money
- What would happen if New York was attacked with a nuclear weapon?
- Japan's religous demographic
- have any antisemites converted to judaism?
- Bootmakers to Kings
May 4
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- University Suicide
- Infinite Perception
- Mainstream bibles around the world
- Proto-Helladic period
- world heritage sites
- Projects marred by human rights allegations?
- Fact checking, educational system
- when was oral sex invented?
- Follow up based on findings from Tango's response above
May 5
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- Voletta Wallace
- Long Hair Merovingians
- NYSE and NASDAQ listed stocks
- Single superpower, single party
- When welfare in the US runs out
- Women and the internet
- Have I broken the law?
- Bridge types
- Stafford Hospital scandal, UK
- Strange fertility pattern of Anna of Bohemia and Hungary
- US foodstamps
- John Hersey's Books
- Great x ? uncle
- Renaissance handwriting
May 6
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- Monetary Reform Act
- UK hereditary peers
- Is Apportionment of cost necessary for control?
- Paintings in the White House
- Masters thesis or master's thesis?
- Michael Savage and Britain
- Heritage Month
- English libel law
- A bank with triple purposes
May 7
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- Elected official from a disenfranchised group
- Did the USSR ever use the term "New Soviet man"?
- Primary sources about the holocaust
- Gitmo detainees released
- Native Americans?
- Reasons For Opposing Slavery In The North?
- Manifest Destiny?
- What's this novel?
- Two Unknown Books
- "Ten Pound Court"
- cousin marrying
- GSP and past mayors
- English
- weighing and drying process
May 8
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- Subsidies instead of tariffs
- More on gender of internet use
- Islamic inheritance jurisprudence and will
- Cutting the hair during sickness
- Is Urdu a Semitic language?
May 9
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- French King/Duke of Aquitaine
- Nothing to do with the old or new Coke
- Muslim achievements
- Did the recent Euromillions lottery have a positive expectation?
- Websites that do stock market predictions using Collective Intelligence
- The symbolic significance of the 5th. of May in Chaucerian times
- The hazard rates for popular activities
- French passes
- Paintings in the White House 2
- What different ways can money be created in finance?
- Price of a cow?
- Bassoon Music
- Fed funds
- Trinity vs Hindu polytheism
May 10
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- Yemen's water system
- Which flag is this ?
- Arab Mulatto
- Footballs before the air pump
- Roman Catholic Church and IVF
- HIV and the U.S. Military
- Question about perception biases in art
- New and/or growing Markets
- Do animals have nationality?
- New Jersey Airports
- Music genre port city
May 11
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- Joe Wicks (not the fictional character)
- Do you know of any ancient Cossa's
- Old SCOTUS opinions
- Mystery bread deliveries
- The Mall, London
- driving
distancetime from Brussels to Paris - Institutions and people in developed Asian countries
- Pakistan and counterinsurgency
- Tracking down a Heinlein novel from one snippet of information
- FAMOUS GREEN WOODCUT-STYLE ARTIST
- Racism?
- In the humanities, what are the applications and benefits of a tree structure?
- Potok's Asher Lev sees Picasso Crucifixion work
- did the Pope give any reasons for Palestinians having a state?
May 12
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- Modern architecture
- More 1904 SCOTUS
- Sinhalese-speaking Muslims
- Penehupifo Pohamba
- Communism
- Churchill and national anthem
- Group of people mutally agreeing to will wealth to each other - hypothetical question
- Time line
- Turn of the century Italian painter
- Pope Pious XII
- Psychology "taking offense"
- Marriage Laws for Muslims
- WWII Slovenia
- Commoning and Community Building
May 13
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- Kings of Aquitaine
- Abdoulaye Wade's wife
- Denis Sassou Nguesso's wife
- Conservative/Green alliance?
- Autocracy and despotism - difference?
- Is there a name for this?
- Civil rights in Japan and South Korea
- Derek Bok Quote
- Words in the World
- Looking for building pictures
May 14
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- Zoological Society of London - Presidents and Secretaries
- Artefacts made by Jesus
- biblical question
- christian gods?
- gods mother?
- moderation
- can Americans do "illegal drugs" in places where they're legal?
- Aeroplanes and jurisdiction
- Is this wrong?
- Bank of England
- Non-resident Indians in Caribbean statistics
- Contradicting laws
- What article am I thinking of?
- Singularity
- English "legalese" meaning of assign (moved from languages)
May 15
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- Which ethnic group is the wealthiest in India?
- Which Christian denominations believe that evolution is compatible with their beliefs?
- WWI censorship (UK)
- Heir to the title of Duke of Suárez?
- Regent of Monaco at the French court
- Identification in Britain
- Aung San Suu Kyi popularity
- Western hemisphere politics
- Annual review of operations / management report
- World War Two Weapons
May 16
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- articles on Ireland economics
- Accidental leaks
- Coats of arms
- Utah Lieutenant Governor
- Administrators of Zilla Parishad
- THE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN MOVIE
- Who is this woman?
- Terminator franchise
May 17
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- updates on shooting suspect
- "unit pricing" in retail markets, esp. Grocery stores
- Draw duel
- Atheism, Evolution, Human Nature, and Capitalism
- Old Man River
- 21st century monarchism
- How to contact an author
- Vatican pornography
- cemetary
- Researching my MP, in the UK
May 18
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- Minsk Historically
- "It is illegal to rob police cars"
- name of a modern country
- Name that tune
- Armed civilian v. cop
- Church talk...
- Novel about woman who thinks cary grant is god
May 19
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- latest baggage updates
- Dangerous Animals in South Korea
- Modular part-time university courses in the UK
- what percent of Europe's jews were killed in the Holocaust?
- Harvard Referencing query
- Why don't Baptists celebrate Ascension Day?
- deflation & inflation
- Who's the artist? What's the name of the painting?
- Parimutuel betting
May 20
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- Translation
- Request for a mathematical term name
- Orthodox Bibles
- Atheism, Evolution, Human Nature, and Capitalism (cont.)
- Politicians and nudity
- Monastery on top of rock pillars in Asia?
- Can someone with a common surname be of Jewish descent?
- Economical crisis = business school crisis?
- Pursuit of low inflation one of the causes of the economic crisis?
- history recomendations for non native speaker
- The man with the rifle shoots...
- mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup of Stone Age peoples?
- Behavioral modernity and Great Leap Forward?
May 21
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- Robert Mugabe's siblings
- Symptoms?
- Difference between Compatibilism and Pessimistic Incompatibilism
- Identity of murderers/criminals
- Buddism in theWest: most common sect
- Modernisation/Westernisation and political spectrum
- Europhile Socialists?
- Relationship between "Mosaic" (tiles) and Moses (Biblical Prophet)?
- Landscape
- Straight ticket voting states
- Largest Empire Ever
- Listing the "virtual/emotional parent" in a wedding program
May 22
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- paul Biya's first wife
- Arduin of Irvea's wife
- Utilitarianism and Human Nature
- Disclosure of expenses of British Members of Parliament
- European Hockey Skate Manufacturers
- Bills Signed Into Law By U.S. Presidents
- Bharatiya Janata Party Buddhism Zoroastrianism Jainism
- Wikipedia's use of the GFDL
- does anything you whip pass the sound barrier?
- List of Big Brother / Police State developments in the United Kingdom
- What is this mask called?
May 23
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- Inconsistency in the European title of (hereditary) "Prince"
- Lalla Salma of Morocco
- Language of Haakon VII of Norway
- Roman mosaics pattern
- Picture containing 3-D objects
- Art
May 24
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- Startup banks get pledges
- canteens and cafeterias
- Race question?
- Baron and Count
- Australia
- rejecting the Nicene Creed
- Like political compass - but for EU parties
May 25
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- Jeremy Bentham and Human Nature
- Running museum joke in letters to The Guardian
- art history
- Byzantine crown jewels
- Coronation of Byzantine Emperors and Empresses
- Kongeluns (?) in Denmark
- Biblical prohibition of fornication
- Doubling Polonius and Fortinbras
- Lawyer trade mag
- Finding county-level US census data for 1960, 1970, 1980 and 1990
May 26
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- Mini Monkey in Amber
- Music Website
- What does an introductory logic class actually involve?
- Finnish Sniper - WW2
- Conflicting rights
- Tiananmen Square protests of 1989/The Internationale
- post-WWII Disarmourment Cartoon
- gold coins again
- 'Dug-out' officer
- medical condition from beauty procedure
- Book title....
May 27
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- Daniel Arap Moi's wife Lena
- Government departments non-profit?
- Wrong pilot credited with Bf 110 first flight
- Supply and demand
- Human resource functions
- Being raped in the subway
- Personal Royal Mottoes (UK)
- history
- Galloping Major scandal
- Financial Times front page for 1993 Bishopsgate bombing
- Ahmad Tejan Kabbah's second wife
May 28
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- Did WWII tanks ever resort to physically pushing enemy tanks?
- Ernest Bai Koroma's wife Sia
- Does anyone care about the big picture?
- Salma Kikwete
- Que Sarah Sarah?
- Learning to sing
- Election results in Sweden?
- Rapture
- Address of Emmy Rossum
- UK Councillors/local councils by party
- The title of a book from my childhood
May 29
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- U.S. Spelling Bee & participant race
- North Korean Infantry - Main Weapon
- Which Buddha Statue ? (done)
- Marcus Favonius date of birth
- What is the contribution of coal (percentage) to the total energy consumption in Poland?
- Cabbage
- Abatement
- Which was worse the First or Second Red Scares?
- Ancient Documents
- Jewish hymn
- Hello
- Black Death quote
May 30
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- Myrna Colley-Lee
- Earth's Other Satellite
- Any other famous latin phrases like "carpe diem"?
- Canada GM Car Clearance
- Section 3 of the 25th Amendment under VP absence
- Ruben's "History of Constantine the Great" series
- Giveaways and antitrust
- What is right and what is left?
- communion faux pas?