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September 1
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September 2
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- Grave candle or lanterns
- Third-party interference in diplomatic immunity
- Nothing known about the man who ended WWII?
- Early child welfare charitable institutions
- The importance of environmental conservation and animal rights in non-White cultures
- Organized crime
- Emma or Ælfgifu
- Another diplomacy question
September 3
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- Earliest British queen consort to have worn a crown
- Can plastic surgery substantially alter someone's appearance?
- Greetings
- Do Spartacus (TV series) represents the reality?
- Do schoolchildren in the developed world, 21st century, learn how to write letters or send e-mail or both?
- Viking boat launching
- Viking ship gargoyle
September 4
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- home prices in the us
- Lietchenstein
- Discrimination against people on the basis of how they smell
- financial projections
- French revolution death
- red baiting/lavender baiting
- German or American insignia
- Are Catholic priests allowed to consume delicacies, sweets, and spicy foods?
- Charles II of Navarre
- Cutting in movies and literature
- Where do Catholic priests live?
- I forgot the name, help me please
September 5
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- "Collectivism"
- Comparison of loyalism and republicanism in British Isles & North America
- Society Islands
- Biography of Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Bin Saud
- Most powerful governor in the U.S.
- Le Figaro
- Question about Mr. Ernest E. Evans
- Can a legal system be so perfect that you never ever convict an innocent guy?
- Mysterious symbol on bottle top
September 6
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- John Maynard Keynes
- national guidlines
- Country with most sports events won at the World Championship level
September 7
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September 8
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- Poetical testament
- Causing death maliciously and legally?
- If evolution doesn't exist ...
- Is North Korea so poor and under-developed because of communism?
September 9
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- Question regarding the Tower of Babel myth
- Crashed airliner - airline name and logo painted out
- Tolkien and poverty
- 18thC Head dress
- Did Hitler offer to deport all the Jews in Occupied Europe to the Soviet Union?
September 10
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- Does anyone here have a subscription to Time Magazine?
- If Jesus died for our sins...
- Private schools vs. public schools
- Songwriters whose work is in the public domain (UK)
- German Togoland
- Deer in Wales
- The Copeland Gang
September 11
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- Defense against rape accusations in India
- What sentence could William Ruto face?
- Imperial Roman Army Picture Error
- What now for Thompson and De Blasio campaigning?
- human guinea pigs
- Hindi literature
- How much money goes into the Roman Catholic Church every year?
- Grandchildren of Henry VIII - supposed daughters of his son Henry FitzRoy
- Russian Beauharnais
- Who saw Christian art?
September 12
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- National Flower of Germany?
- Names that used to be considered stereotypical for black Americans
- Evangelical School of Smyrna
September 13
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September 14
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September 15
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- Plank length
- Good parenting?
- child abuse videos
- A textbook of Jewish rhetorics?
- Scotland post Independence Referendum 2014
- Buying a barrel of oil
- Muslims and Arabs' Hatred of Jews
September 16
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- How can I work property rights for something ?
- Pads
- Mass executions of the poor
- Did Hitler have any retirement plans?
September 17
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- Did the Germans fight back at Dresden?
- Transsexuality: do psychoanalysts get referral bonuses?
- Do Indians love or hate the Gandhis (Indira and Rajiv)
- Racism among Europeans?
- Trip to New World
September 18
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- 13, Duncan Street, Houndsditch
- How predictable are divorces?
- Oldest residential building?
- Talmud Schottenstein Ed. Text in all upper case type
- Sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly
- List of territorial disputes
- Quebec history
September 19
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- Buying stock in unemployment?
- Borders in Oceania
- How is pastoral care different from helping people with emotional-spiritual concerns?
September 20
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- Translation
- Spartans Helots
- 'Role reversal' in political thought?
- Legal question: Would Charlie Harper's daughter have a claim to his estate?
- Misogyny article - section on Judaism
- Karen Carpenter's Voice
- Pre-modern poetry containing time travel or other worldy beings...
September 21
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- White poverty in America
- Population Gap
- How many (notable) Roman Catholics and ex-Roman Catholics are also researchers/scientists using embryonic stem cell research?
September 22
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- Psychology, religion, political views, and occupation
- When could the default on the US debt limit take place?
September 23
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- Languages
- Individual prior to society and vice versa
- Ukraine and Belorussia at the UN
- Justice delayed is justice denied
- Literary influence over French Revolution.
- Spiritual vs. __________
- Some statistical / financial questions
September 24
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September 25
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- Positions of the worlds religions regarding the morality of bringing the dead back to life.
- Does anybody know what was the fate of this boy?
- The Sanhedrin
- William Calley, My Lai Massacre
- What proportion of the time do Christians, on average, devote to God, Mary, or the saints?
- Constructive vote of no confidence
- Lyndon Johnson's inaugural parade
- The Medicis breaking Machiavelli's arms
- Why do people vote?
September 26
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- Georges Darboy
- Bullying in schools
- Any well-constructed studies on premium costs under the Affordable Care Act?
- How do you <something> two contradictions?
- Map about ages of consent in the world: Peru and Spain correct?
- how can guys see toilet seats?
September 27
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- how are short positions closed when markets jump on open?
- High risk group
- The Young Turks - An offensive name?
- Squat toilet demonstration
- Give me examples of the Five Points of Calvinism or TULIP
- William-Adolphe Bouguereau - Work Interrupted
September 28
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- Totalitarian ideologies
- Story about Enyclopedists who devise a fictional island that becomes real
- Please identify this French classical musique
- In subject "Greeks"
- What gives value to non-dividend paying stock?
- Police State
- What are the real chances for change in gay rights in Iran with President Hassan Rouhani?
- What was the first U.S. health insurance plan to exclude coverage for autism and why did they do it?
- Nirvana and the end of the world
September 29
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- exact moment for pictorial meme
- Age of High School graduation in Colombia
- technical question on microeconomics: why don't more people use personal buyers (micro economics question)
- Bari and Rossano
- French books for beginners
- A rug "made by Alecto" . Alecto ? ...
- Corporal punishment in schools
- Is BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit District) considered to be a government agency?
- Identification of a manuscript
September 30
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- Identify this British WWI Quote
- Russian War on Chechnya
- Why do people think that death is bad?
- New York county judges
- Very Early Chinese Capitalism
- "80% of religious persecution"
- Government shutdown - Explain it to me like I'm 5..
- I Need Help Finding Whole Deutsche Bank Report for its Population Projections