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May 1
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- Which All Hallows was Knox offered?
- Social etiquette of coffee request
- U.S. General Aviation flight hours
- Hiding inside animal carcasses
- Viking (or Scandinavian) contact with Europe prior to the 8th century ?
May 2
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- Left-Wing populism in Europe
- ISIS and the Yazidis
- Suicides during, or as a result of, The Troubles
- Who stole Carl Weiss' body from his grave?
- Laurie Lee picked up by a destroyer
- Kim Jong-un
- Atlantic Award, Rockefeller
- Made in USA or Imported
- How do humans fulfill their biological functions during wartime?
May 4
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- No money = no marriage?
- Did the ancient Chinese explore and map out Siberia (North Asia)?
- L. Monaco
- How did humans travel before knowledge about other languages became readily available?
- Picture Post cover
- Government of North Korea powers on paper, regardless of practical reality
May 5
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- ATOS work capability assessment
- Susanovo-Mythen Circle
- Price stipulation before capitalism
- "Airplane Egg" got burned by cargo cult?
- American citizens with official titles of nobility or peerages
May 6
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- Under Hawaiian Skies
- Opposition to the Second Boer War
- Are there parts of the world where land is sometimes sold in circles?
May 7
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- Change in views of homosexuality
- Aboriginal Australians
- What expert considers democratic socialism to be part of libertarianism?
- A pound in England hundreds of years ago
- Artcraft Studio
- Stochastic discipline, a study of bread
- Operation Sovereign Borders, Donald Trump, & Media Coverage
May 8
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- Portuguese comb
- Wikileaks
- natural gas historical prices
- Equality and competition
- Cleopatra's language with Antony
May 9
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- Public Domain?
- Would anyone have found the 1899 song Telephone dirty?
- Puerto Ricans moving to the mainland
- Does Western Europe have something close to as bad as the Rust Belt?
- Why was Canada's Liberal Party so successful over the long term?
- Irish people sold into slavery
May 10
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May 11
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- Jean-Luc Melenchon Bernie Sanders? and Palestine state recognition
- When did the UK and US start to diverge when it comes to the first-day-of-the-week?
- History of the Israeli Supreme Court
- Sikh Hierarchy?
- Flag meeting
- Libertarian and anti psychiatry
May 12
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- Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
- Learning a programming language just got the libraries?
- What was the longest distance war between principals in history?
- Pannekoek
- Has there even been a jurisdiction that criminalized paying the kidnapping ransom?
- State legislature
- What took over the BBC's AM radio slots and when?
- Higher education in non-European settings
May 13
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- 10 years in Iliad and 10 years in Titanomachy
- Aki's affidavits
- Map help
- Government - what do they do?
- Bread, cheese, and milk and food combinations
- sports coordinations
- literate tribes
- Birthdays nine months after their parents
May 14
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May 15
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- White House photographers
- "Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?"
- Job designations named after people
- India–Bangladesh enclaves map.
- President firing FBI agents
- Young earth creationism in other Christian countries
May 16
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- Yeong Mui Cha
- Is the Linguistic Turn opposed to using mathematics and formal methods in explaining some aspects of reality?
- Specialist risk escalation in prince2
- Rifle in Expert Infantryman Badge
May 17
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- Appeals to the U. S. Supreme Court: availability/access of legal briefs to the public
- What stops Africa from redrawing the ignorant colonial borders that put rivals in the same country?
- Reading suggestions on American Civil Rights movement and Indian Independence movement?
May 18
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- publicly owned pets
- Why is there no large city at the mouth of the Susquehanna or Connecticut River?
- Saying a prayer before a meal by Christians and Muslims
May 19
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- Peel & Co
- NEXUS_(frequent_traveler_program)
- what do the numbers mean?
- Is Gibraltar a country?
- Does British TV news ever say Breenter or Bremoan?
- New York Times and Comey memo
- Slovak World War play
May 20
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- Industrial power rate
- What grows in the Fertile Crescent?
- Why do humans think they own pieces of the earth?
- Marriage abroad
- Occupation of Greece
- Quebec torture
- European countries becoming Muslim-majority countries
- Nigerian woman's surname
May 21
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- Snow White's characteristics
- military order bearing signature
- Meixi Archways
- Is the wedding ceremony or the marriage license proof of marriage?
May 22
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- Beyond combining all individual bibles into all - in - one now
- Manbulge
- Agricultural revolution and cats
- What decade is this wallpaper from, roughly?
May 23
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May 24
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- Election systems other than the US Electoral College where the candidate with the most votes can theoretically lose
- Olive tree history
- US warships port calls in China
May 25
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- style of inference
- Quite frankly, I'm plucking confused
- Famous Business Missed Deadlines
- How is Russia a developing country?
- Why do humans homogenize over time?
- US Navy vs PLAN uniform
- List of manufacturers with emission scandals
- Nomads
May 26
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- Living in poverty vs living self-sufficiently but away from large society
- Failure to wear caps?
- LGBT in Europe
May 27
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- Does the Speaker have to resign their speakership before succeeding the presidency
- Niihau lakes
- red coordinations
- Kitchen Cabinet (US)
- Grevinec
May 28
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- Zhou Yi (周顗)
- Instant wire transfer within the UK
- Internal exile from Siberia
- Recalling a dissolved Parliament
May 29
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May 30
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- British social class system
- What is a possible way my ancestors met (I made a DNA test)?
- Charles Samuel Stewart
- Early US crime records
- Dancer's "originated roles" in works by Choreographer X
- Sarah Palin mama grizzlies
- What G8/7/6 meeting had the most recently inaugurated full member?
- Why did some of the go governing bodies give Alphago a 9p rank while FIDE didn't make Deep Blue a GM?
- United Kingdom General Election, 2017