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September 1
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- The Libyan dinar
- What is a "lay theologian"?
- Trademark leaders
- Medieval women and personal liberty
- Planned economy
- Currency question
- Talon of Gold/Silver/Copper
- Shiva
September 2
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- WW2 bombings of cities
- The Paper Chase
- Libyans in support of US presence
- Making a Profit From the 9-11 Attacks
- Economics: a term for the point at which the overall market cap decreases
- States printing money of their enemies
- MFN status
- Why does nationalist populism work?
- What sort of (Polish?) military hat is this?
- Mercantilism vs protectionism
September 3
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- PROGRAM ON AMERICAN NEGRO AND SLAVE TRADE
- Disagreement over Childhood Mortality in Iraq on (Wikipedia vs Google)
- Strange political party in the UK from 15/20-ish years ago...
- Lined paper
- theoretical policies
September 4
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- Deliberately leaving the editorial blank?
- Sen-sex
- Kickstarter vs. ThePoint.com
- How money enters circulation
- Copyright
- The nurses of the mideavel hospitals
- Derivation of Buddhism
- Watery novels
- 2008 editorial about Russians and western racialist expectations
- Artistic depictions of Jesus
- Did John Milton have a photographic memory?
September 5
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- Image help
- Link: Declining number of new wikipedia editors
- Failed industries
- How Many Delegates in the 2012 Republican Primary?
- Warren Harding in the KKK?
- Being an ass
- Capital punishment in the US
September 6
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- Popular sport in Western Europe in the late 1700s
- Justifiable killing v. innocent bystander
- Art type and buy-in amount
September 7
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- Reference check for Commission (remuneration)
- Illustrating the legend of the Cave of Salmanica / Devil take the hindmost
- Is a legal decision a verifiable source?
- Have currencies based on commodity money suffered extreme inflation?
- transexual
- Guide to Parliament
- Size of UK EEZ and Scottish waters
- German newspapers
- apostrophe placing
- knighthoods
- Euro and the debt of others
- Effect of unconstitutional law
- Good place to look for converting to Judaism from a (desit/atheist)ish viewpoint
- about the pound sterling
September 8
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- French presidents Quebec independence
- tracking consumer price index and determining cost of living adjustment
- Writing a book-advice for teenagers
- Muslim prayer in space
- Muslim flags with Arabic characters
- Horseshoe ring
- Proverbial cartoons
September 9
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- Effect of repealed law
- how many pyjamas do people normally rotate?
- Ulster Volunteer Force and Ulster Defence Association
September 10
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- Supreme Court at Obama's jobs speech?
- PIGS (economics)
- Camille Flammarion's book on numerology, the Pythagorean
- Mychal Judge: name
- Free movement in the EU
- California property tax delinquent date
- African allies and enemies of Muammar Gaddhafi
- Elizabeth May
- Nazi Germany vs Germany
- Quebec politics ethnicity
- listing of jobs short of people
September 11
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- Question about communism?
- Libyan flag?
- Why isn't the date of Jesus' crucifixion or birth known?
- abuse of 911
- Last Queen of Rimatara
- Autism/philosophy/psychedelia
- Praise for competitors
- Indibilis and Mandonius - ancient Spain
- Ironworkers and window installers on One World Trade Center
- Country of origin of Northern Irish Protestants
- Nozick and racism?
September 12
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- Irish word óglaigh
- what do mba's know?
- The decline of Native American? And the discovery of America
- does America still have social mobility?
- People's Party in Europe
- national party in Europe
- "Current" ancestry
- COULD IT BE POSSIBLE THAT ATLANTIS WAS THE BIBLICAL GARDEN OF EDEN?
- A question about Forbes list of billionaires
September 13
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- 9/11 Memorial pools dimensions
- Slavery in France, Spain, Portugal, England, Netherlands and Italy
- Joint venture
- Was Port Durnford (Natal coast) named after col. Anthony Durnford ?
- Ten commandments
- Why do native tribes in Africa still exist?
- FLEC-FLAC (Angola)
- ACH Process
- A culture where only the corrupt rise to power
- French colonies
- The spread of colonization
- Final destination of Wikipedia?
September 14
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- most snobbish languages for an American to know and speak as a foreign language?
- Canadian provinces and US States
- Political parties of Europe immigration
- Is there a specific term for...
- Why are these American cities declining in population since the 1950s?
- Ancient Roman punishment
September 15
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- Official residence of the Premier of Ontario
- US-Israel relations
- Conservative and Liberal places of Bangladesh.
- Fasces
- The world a thousand years ago
- Transaccions in the ballpark of billions
- historical fiction
- UK riots - types of conviction
- UN's legal capacity
September 16
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- available employment not filled
- Philosopher who doubted physical world could hurt him?
- list of political criteria
- Psychodynamic's Article
- Is imperonating a federal agency a crime in the US?
- relative income
- where was the "Strictly Come Dancing" advert filmed?
- If God does exist, then why would God ultimately exist?
- English Law and the US based web-sites
- downs syndrome
- wristwatch fashion
- Why East Germany but not East Austria
- "Aynthing you say can and will(?) be used against you in a court of law"
- How much of TD Ameritrade is owned by its founder/family?
September 17
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- chinese immigration?
- Question about Leading Leisure Expert
- Question about the law
- Not exactly a spire...
- Do cats think?
- Personal correspondence/letters - archive/history
- Correct name for leather belts without holes (clothing)
- World War II artillery of the United States
- Grover Cleveland's grandfather
September 18
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- Prime Minister of Canada Jean Chretien and Middle East
- Turkic people diaspora
- Orillion Bastion
- VC by balloting?
- Literacy rates
- Why are numbers written in the five (5) format?
- New ways to make money for those in financial straits? (Disability = hard to employ)
- Buttons, buttons.
- Why doesn't capitalism work?
- What is the ESTA good for?
September 19
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- Dr. without dissertation around the world
- Coal miners in gilded age at United States?
- How much has black flight contributed to the population decline and urban decay of many American cities since the 1950’s when compared to white flight?
- does anyone know any jokes like this?
- Electricity Pylons
- Earliest certain celebrity endorsement in history?
- Animals and the New Zealand Māori
- Survival rate of US government programs that kick in in the next administration
- President's Voting for Candidates
September 20
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- Bill O'Reilly and Vietnam,
- The UC Irvine Muslim students
- Jean-Bedel Bokassa
- What does "unrewarded genius is almost a proverb" mean?
- History of pornography
- Secret US intelligence budget
- human "breeds"
- Most incumbents ever
September 21
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- John Kalymon
- Who Funded the 'No to AV Yes to PR' Campaign in the UK?
- MAG or MUG
- Israel
- reductio ad absurdum, a logical fallacy?
- Right wing Irish republicanism and left wing Ulster unionism
- MMP & Overhang Seats
- Destinations per airport
- Questions on Non-Disclosure Agreements
- VP of the US
- Railroad workers in gilded age in US
- Chiropractic in Medicare
- Outcry stopping an execution in the US?
- Would a 6'3", relatively strong, 252 lb and aggressive white male in his mid-twenties be likely to be raped in an American prison?
- Where to find companies whose stocks trade on more than one stock exchanges ?
September 22
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- British Empire & Colonies
- Palestinian state
- The illegitimate children of noblewomen
- Why are the states of Alaska and Hawaii usually ignored?
- Was Feudalism bad?
- Battle of Cartagena (209 BC)
- Ancient Egyptian religions
September 23
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- Chardin's students
- Use of Last Post to signal armistice?
- Special Operations Executive
- Sabbath navigating
- Sabbath lighting
- Heir to the Irish throne
- Congressional Net Worth
- faces
- Neoclassical sex?
- X-rated constellations ?
- Palestinian statehood application
- College dating; sociology; hookups vs relationships
- Copyright Law
- Prison account
- unanswered questions
September 24
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- Singing terminology
- Average age that politicians were elected
- List of Constituencies of Netherlands, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Switzerland, Norway
- looking for maps
- Еще Раз-Путин?
- what are actors who appear in porno films but don;t have sex in the film called?
- Why does North Korea seem to be so obsessed with its military?
September 25
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- H. B. Martin
- Publishing Editorial content on my blog.
- Destroying the USA's Economy
- Dictionnaire illustré de la Polynésie, sous la direction de F. Mercerau
- 2 questions about sign language
- Pornography in different cultures
- Archaeological finds Roland de Vaux from Qumran
- PRC's and Russia's borders
- South American pictures
- How to find the original study or studies...
- End of the recent US wars in Iraq
- Nazi insurgency
- Drinking on Thursdays
- ancient war mechanism meaning of "engines"
- Taiwan Language Census
September 26
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September 27
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- Searches of US citizens at the border
- Mechanics in pre-industrialisation society
- nagar panchayat
- Christian College of America
- Why are there more taxicabs in Manhattan than in the other New York City boroughs?
- Russian term limits
- Elementary study guides to Metaphysics?
- Can a region from a foreign country join the USA?
- Priestesses of the Greek and Roman gods
- Mormon high
September 28
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- The Ukraine
- The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates
- Fiction and fantasy genres.
- Elf
- Protection from stock dilution
- computer displacement
- Why is North Korea so mad at the US and South Korea if it was they who started the Korean War?
- What time is it
- Suspended sentences in Japan
- Degoyification, or How I learned to stop schpitzing and love the Chickpea.
- "Aborted" Chinese invasion of Taiwan
- Vietnamese written language before Chinese influence
September 29
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- date of birth
- Palestinian conflict
- Far-right politics in Africa
- Crime prescription
- Africans in Belgium
- Indonesian Muslims in the Netherlands
- Myth of choosing a husband by his feet
- Fraud and Common Knowledge
- Common currency, uncommon debt
- Books similar to...
- Why are Alpine regions so rich?
- Argentina nickname
September 30
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- Bear Flag Revolt
- Economic inequality and racial tension in China and America
- What 19th-century ethnic hat is this?
- Political rivals in UK, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands and Belgium
- assassinated archbishop of Paris
- 2 questions about Philip Kearny
- Species facti
- Money Order
- Who was the first to stand at the South Pole?
- Works on the attitude of Islam towards modernization
- Black horseshoe ring
- Why is America claimed by some (maybe many) Americans and even still by some non-Americans, based from my personal experience overseas, to be the greatest country on earth?
- Hauntings in Ireland
- Karl Rove and his involvement in the group "Concerned Citizens of America"