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August 1
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- Why didn't Europeans die from a lack of immunity to diseases in the new world?
- Business question: Joint parenthood for companies?
- Pilgrimages, succession, infighting
- Kronos's palace vs. Valhalla
- Charles I of England's "tyranny"?
- Flat caps & baseball (cricket too?) caps
- Why is Berkshire Hathaway stock so expensive and who buys it?
- Thailand
- Bohemond I of Antioch
- Profit is not a four-letter word
- Wagner's Das Rheingold
- Locating an old rail line
- Divorce Rate among Christians and Atheists
August 2
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- An earth without humans
- The name
- Methodism = Puritanism?
- British Isles diaspora studies
- Avignon Papacy & Counter-Reformation Catholicism
- Austria vs Prussia
- relatively recent Japanese short-story collection with S&M themes
- Legislators mass resign and recontest?
- Roman Senate assembly
- Crusader military order ethnicities & the Reformation
August 3
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- Henry VIII's dual titles and powers: precedent?
- Should athletes taking Stimulant be banned from competition forever?
- Dover, Connecticut
- Himmler speech
- Slave owners after abolition
- Acting as a national leader
- Rosencratz and Guildenstern in Act 2 Scene 2 of Hamlet
- Serbian coat-of-arms identification
- Army's traditional use of American Indian tribal names for its helicopters
- Royal veto in the UK
- John Kufuor's graduation
- Judaen monarchy
August 4
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- Agricultural maps of England & France
- American Cities
- History topics regarding Shanghai, China
- Ordinary buildings in Ancient Greece
- WWII
- The Plantagenet Inheritance
- The Culture of Privacy in Britain
- 90% of content is created by 10% of editors
- Death of one person = death of the world
- THERE IS NO INFORMATION ABOUT COPAS FARM , LONDON
August 5
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- Permanent budget bills
- Granville Roland Fortescue
- Religion, Succession and Monarchy
- Marginal valuation
- Independence and Recognition of Countries
- Why are different, seemingly disparate political views (seemingly) correlated?
- What novel was this?
- Sales of the Bible versus sales of the Qur'an
- Non-hearers of information
- Lucius Aemilius Paulus Macedonicus#Family life and descendants
August 10
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- For people to be train to be a nurse
- Occupation of former royalty
- What do you call temperature sensitive cloth/embroidery/manufacturing...?
- What's the term for using something as a tool outside intended use?
- Sexual abuse: trauma in adults and children
- Information about Evan John, author.
- study of racism in young children
- Alexander Dubček - western propaganda about this once leader of Czecheslovakia?
- What have the eastern terrorists got against the west?
- Where did the wealth of the British royal family come from?
- $ from a cow
- Royalty
August 12
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- Starting a political consultancy in India
- Purpose of cylinder at back of Renault FT-17 tank
- Jewish homosexuals adopting children
- Select Retail Holdings Limited
- Do non-Christians children have piggy banks?
- Marquis de Crecy 1800s
- collection of poems
- Split Duchies
- Value of a bee hive
- Working on my book again...
- How does SWIFT work?
- Oldest New Testament copy
August 13
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- Danish princes and princesses
- Meles Zenawi's skin so tan
- Satan, Lucifer and the Bible
- PRESIDENTIAL AND VICE PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION
- Less known cutting-edge authors from around the world
- Sri Lanka
- Blue Roofed Buildings
- Allied Bombing in WWII
- Polity IV and Freedom House
- Why does Paul Biya look so young
- More on US presedential succession
August 14
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- What's REALLY the oldest profession?
- US Social Security numbers
- Are poor people in USA really buying homes?
- What cartoon is this describing?
- Hideous mermaid image
- Why'd they rename it Dominican Republic?
- What was Hitler's opinion of Republicanism?
- List of Libraries
- Using debit or credit card in supermarket - how much info can they get about me?
- Agricultural Subsidies
- UK's action in Turks and Caicos Islands
- Is there really a TV news station?
August 17
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- List of Arts and Sciences
- Indonesian ballot paper of 1955
- meaning of ww2 japanese submarine designations
- Looking for a Captain Cook work
- Tracing the movements of George VI of the United Kingdom
- Terms of the lease of the New Territories, Hong Kong
- White vs. APL family
- islamic monks?
- Elections of Kenya and mozambique
- Does Congress (in the US) have a source control system for the actual words going into a bill?
- Mexican vs. white interracial marriage
- citing music
- Judaism Ethnic divisions vs. denomination
- Districts of West Bengal versus religion
August 18
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- North Americal Aboriginal Treaties
- Caucasian Eyes
- rotten vegetables at protests and theater
- Danish titles
- Logical fallacy: Good or bad based on who does it?
- Is there any religion where there are two good Gods?
- Ethnic groups of India vs. Buddhism
- Bangladeshi Buddhist
- Wikipedia sentient?
- 16th century
- Latin Language in Hieroglyphic Bible
August 19
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- Queen Rania of Jordan
- What novel was this?
- Order in the next ten minutes!
- Relations
- Social responsibilities
- Reasons Behind Structure of Names
- The first Women suffrage?
- Opportunity cost
- How would the Black Plague have impacted Native Americans, Australians?
- Map of Napoleon's trails
- white people to have a darker skin tone
August 20
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- Internal heirarchies in Venetian guilds
- Since popping over to Europe to save the day with the help of a smart, gorgeous sidekick isn't a viable career option . . .
- Siege of Petropavlovsk
- Pretending that an author is still alive
- How best to spend £1000000 to increase the sum of happiness the most?
- Can anyone identify this obscure anti-smoking parody song?
- Ten Commandments and Gentiles
- Bad person, who is a "Bad person"
August 24
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- taxing in US and EU for website based in India
- U.S. Social Security benefit entitlement for a former, non resident, spouse.
- General interest question: numbers of ministers in governments
- Questions about Georgian royal succession
- will this startup work?
QuestionThe Biggest- How many arts and sciences are there in the world
- WWI History question on Misc desk
- John 3:16
- Scholarship abroad
- Prison riot in Kentucky
- Ancient Greek Theater
August 26
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- Architectural style of church
- References for Winston I. Nunes
- Cutlery illegal for under 18 in UK?
- Legal status of public sex
- Unusual looking "hats" in pic
- Most important battle in history
- how similar are japanese culture and korean culture?
- Captured US soldiers during the Iraq War 2003
- Sociology of wiki
- The Mounties always get their man . . .
- Western dress code in Ottoman Balkan?
- The first theatre and actors in Estonia
August 29
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- Countries without legal recognition of marriage
- The pioneer (painting)
- Pakistani Politics
- Original philosophy texts to read by a beginner
- Prostitution in the old muslim world (pree the 1800s)
- Number of Iranians living in exile
- Not a question
- Joe Biden and the Little League World Series
- Indonesian tsunami museum