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October 1
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October 2
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- A Sexual Odyssey: From Forbidden Fruit to Cybersex
- Ebola transmissibility
- Greek mythology question
- Mythology and Religion:
- Queen Elizabeth II and her different realms
October 3
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- Arc of Life
- Immigrants in Russia
- Patton quote
- Order of the seven days of the week vs. order of the seven Ptolemaic planets
October 4
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October 5
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October 6
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- Jimmy Dore said that a study determined that cops (when they were younger) were either bullies or were bullied
- Public domain in the UK
October 7
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October 8
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- What counts as a "native language" or "native speaker" in a bilingual household?
- Numbering of English kings
October 9
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October 10
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- Humor identification
- Election of the Philippine Senate through Panachage
- How/why/when did "European civilisation" become the global default?
- US Presidents, having won only a minority of states
- Names of the Drekkanas, and/or other decans
October 11
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- Sci-fi story about life-forms from the Earth's mantle
- What was the form of village government in Imperial China?
- Poverty and resource rich countries
- Is the slogan "We are the 99%" trademarked or in the public domain?
- How can you possibly be libertarian and socially conservative at the same time?
- Lesbia - Clodia
- OECD and Romania, finding data on economy
- David Roediger, editor of The Little Red Songbook, compilation of Wobbly songs
- Diminished capacity to consent and sexual assault
- Marxist Theological Dialectic
- How successful were ostiaries in keeping non-Christians out of the church during the Eucharist?
October 12
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- Why isn't the US in the Inter-Parliamentary Union?
- EU's CEFR English Profile availability and licensing
- When, Where and Who ?
- South America
- James Francis Edward Stuart
- Study and practice of modern medicine in China between 1940-1985?
October 13
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- Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof
- Distances in Orange County
- Stock Market Investment class
- Is the name "Citizen Four" a reference to anything?
- Kwaggaberg
- Painting seen in a TV episode
October 14
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- Free buffalo
- Do I want to move to Milton Keynes?
- Vehicle towing/recovery industry (A history): South Africa
- Economic, social, and cultural rights
- Blood types and how it relates to race and ethnicity
- Pollution and privatization
- Police Driving Through Red Lights
- "Blind Corporation"
- Error needs fixing
- Scopus-archived journals for ethnomedicine article
- Age at which an IRA / Roth IRA is started
- Were African Americans allowed to vote in the 1960 US Presidential election?
- MJ's ambulance
- Development of neopaganisms in a post-Christian environment and ancestor worship
October 15
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- Gothic short story with lady in white
- Pluralism and distribution of power.
- Museum of Berlin
- murderers and communion
- Is it true that Singapore is the only surviving citystate in the world?
October 16
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- possessives
- Question about WW1 and WW2.
- Is Jane Eyre a Quaker, or is she Quaker-like?
- Are Jewish converts who happen to be transmen circumcised?
- I have a wiccan question
October 17
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- Why are horoscopes drawn backwards?
- Is a nurse allowed to date a (former) patient's child?
- Albert Pearse
- Comparison: Movie '300' with 'Da vinchi code' Book
October 18
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- Cavalry
- Historical name
- Did segregation in the 1950s America affect Asian-Americans and Asian immigrants?
- "Poor people (in 1st world countries) are poor because they are not aspirational"
- Regarding Rabindranath Tagore
- Goodwill (accounting)
- Did Chisso executives really go to jail?
- WW1 Question (I think)
- 'Living on air' fairy tale
October 19
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- Does Confucianism fall under Secular Humanism?
- Mediatrix of All Graces
- Anonymous sources and journalism ethics
October 20
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- Easter Island: Historical Low Temperatures
- Old Chinese object
- History of the motto of the Royal Society
- Khwarazmian dynasty and "work unions"
- Difference between a Credit Union and a Building Society
October 21
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- England expects that every man etc. Why not Britain?
- Peirce and Bergson
- Why does the CIA World Factbook consider South Africa a developed country which by their definition means 'high income or 1st world' economy?
October 22
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- Question about Iliad and Odyssey
- Ben Bradlee and the Iran-Contra affair
- Is there death sentence for first-degree murder in Iraq?
- Bren Gun
October 23
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- West African burial practices
- drunk Shakespeare scenes
- Jewish early childhood ritual
- Pluralism and Politics
- Celtic painting
- Problems of literature
- How many people are secular and atheist in the Western sense of the term in East Asia?
- Intra-NATO war
October 24
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October 25
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- Hop on - Hop off cruising
- Caliphate after Ottomans
- First European to set foot on modern-day USA
- How much formal logic and mathematics would you have to study if you focused on continental philosophy?
- Heaven and Hell: Judaism
October 26
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- Viewers?
- MADELINE O'MALLEY
- Sodom and Gomorrah considered from the obvious, down to Earth, atheist view?
- Bill Gates' philanthropy partly to keep litigation against Microsoft at bay
October 27
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- Ida Scott's singing teacher
- Gambling with other people's money
- Value of French livre in mid-17th century
- Lion, Falcon and the Wolf/Jackel
- Is there a time boundary between a new religious movement and an older religion?
- Have there been attempts to secularize Christianity?
- Domesday Survey Map
October 28
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- Israeli ministers Mizrahi sephardic 1948
- Muslims and the Koran
- Panda are Tibetans
- New York Times West Side Plant
- Account registry of Louis XIII's household
October 29
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- third largest diplomatic mission
- ISIS recruits
- Social class just prior to the Communist era in China?
- Talmudic (?) quotation
October 30
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October 31
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