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May 1
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- Flags
- price of oil and value of dollar
- campaign finance
- Soviet military thinking
- Pigs in the mud
- Surprises in history
- Laundry poem
- is migration good for development?
- I was only obeying orders
- Murdered Hebrew prophets
- woman warrior who dyed herself blue
- Holocaust questions
May 2
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- Sheet Music
- Diversity
- Conservative conspiracy
- Kipling and Recessional
- How do you found a umbrella organization?
- Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale
- Josephine Butler
- What was the danger?
- Belly Dance
- Natural resources of Canada issues
- new year
- Tabandeh and Mahmassani
- Struggle between east and west
- Reaction to Sino-Indian war of communities in Singapore and Malaysia?
- Nicholas Rockefeller
- Catherine Parr
- Anarchism-arguments against
- Coat of arms prior to Henry II
- How are new militaries formed???
May 3
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- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's Family
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra descendants (desendientes)
- Mr. Martin/The Queen, Our Head of State
- Becoming beastly in order to fight a beast
- Plymouth
- Pope's villa bombed in WW2?
- Abbey Road (street)
- English Queens and puddles
May 4
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- British in WWI
- Evidence for Zoroastrianism as the One True Religion
- Tobacco deaths
- Atlantic Slave Ships
- RAF
- Epicurus
- Timing of start of working day around the world
- Science fiction novels with the word "Maze" in the title
- Pot Bouille
- Alexander I and universities
- archaeology
- A question regarding EU and provinces
- Paris, 1968
- people who became famous later in life (ie after 50)
May 5
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- Bhumibol Adulyadej
- The Tin Drum - Exactly What did Oskar's Mother Eat
- Shautaraw
- If I'm born with that ethnicity, I will be that ethnicity forever in my lifetime?
- specific name for girls who have black hair.
- Writing System
- the definition of TOLLYWOOD
- School
- EC law (moved from WP:HD)
- Dresden
- Status of Women
- French Socks of Long Ago
- Metal use in antiquity.
- crude oil consumption
- A picture of the world?
- Edward II and Gaveston
- Archaeology
May 6
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- Wars
- Filioque
- Gas price economics 101
- A picture of a painting from my dad which died in 1996.
- Voltaire's Third Letter on Oedipus
- The size of the atom according to the ancient atomists
- Next position
- British commanders negligence on the Western Front during the great war (First World War)
- plurals and group names
- Second Dutch War
- Opposite of personification
May 7
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- Anyone ever "speak now?"
- Clinton's vs. Obama's plans
- No Revolution in Britain
- List of United States Presidents by genealogical relationship
- Number of trains daily from Vienna to Magdeburg in 1889
- Anti-Defamation League Role in Great Sedition Trial
- Support organisation or information on rape victim compensation in Germany
- Other Minds
- What did Pablo Picasso think about Israel and Zionism?
- Themes in The Octopus
- The Crimes of Kaiser Bill
- Issues natural resources
- Literature
May 8
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- Conservative sociologists
- Afroamerries
- University
- Tin Drum 2
- Eva the Jew Hater
- Prisioners in the English Civil War
- Serving as Vice-President & Secretary of State Concurrently
- Aelia Capitolina
- Darkness at Noon
- Stalin
- GDP
- Painting, Art, Heralding the Dawn
- Crime vs. social phenomenon
May 9
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- data on international or global food prices going back 50 years or so
- Killing Theives
- Socrates and Buddhism or Taoism
- JC-1 H2 Literature set texts
- Famous Virginians
- Mosley's Mentality
- Wittgenstein and Schopenhauer
- Becoming a jew: the easy way
- Popish Plot
- Overview of 1700s-era naval uniforms?
- French Revolution
- Offer excludes Northern Ireland
- Best source for Ibn Battuta's travels
May 10
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- National Service League-United Kingdom
- Cultures/ groups forbidding or objecting to cutting hair
- Bad grades and grad school/master/PhD
- Annual economic growth rate
- Deaths in Medieval England
- Experience
- presidential nominees
- Gender Equality in Education
- Job interview success
- The mind in ancient Greece
- Why is Tsutomu Miyazaki still alive??
- battleship diplomacy
- The role of committee members in a small club
- Definition of the mind
- Essentialism and Enlightenment Tolerance
May 11
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- artist/painter A.F. Gerstmayr
- Guthrum II
- COPPA compliance
- Su vegetarianism, Fruitarianism, and dharmic religion.
- Historical understanding of static electricity
- Kent State and American Law
- Day saver for trains in the UK
- Pictish History
- Room of the house
- Finding progress of lawsuit, lacking news coverage
- Meaning of 'either'.
- Darius
- Art of our time
- Quote by Charlemagne
- SS Enterprises
May 12
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- How might an undefended Asante town in 1701 deal with a British landing?
- Why doesn’t Tarzan have a beard?
- Oppression
- The Ottoman Empire in the 16th century
- Cybernetic mind control
- Belgian Power
- British Naval power in the eighteenth century
- Noam Chomsky Books
- Why was I born to my parents in my town at a specific time?
- Classics
- Division Bell in Parliament
- Christianity and kosher foods
- UK prime minister
- Roadside Park
- "Ghost Account" phenomenon
May 13
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- Advantages and disadvantages diplomatic immunity
- 1931 to 1945 world map for allies and axis
- Myanmar/China response to disaster
- Identifying statues on the Albert Memorial's frieze
- Why (and when) did Britain's John Lewis Partnership start calling itself a co-operative?
- The size of the atom according to the ancient atomists
- How do i get involved in fighting poverty in Angola
- Ranks in 16th Century Venetian Navy
- Earliest mention of Lord in a religious context
- Sailing east: any poems, songs or nicknames?
- UK court-dress changes
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
- Norse Mythology
- What's the difference between "Natural Rights" and "Human Rights"???
May 14
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- Obscurantism
- Standby Power wastage
- Darwin and Eugenics/Social Darwinism
- Inquiry
- Allied Aid to Soviet Russia in WW2
- Name of the many-winged aircraft bicycle
- Vatican - UFO conspiracy
- Yunaitedo Suteetsu
- The Restoration in Scotland
- Locke and politics
- Inquisition
- What is meant by "toadstool casserole"? (Not as in food)
- POWs, international law, internment/repatriation
- renewable and non-renewable natural resources of Canada
- Economics: Government Deficit, Output &
- Iron Guard
- Gordon Brown as PM
- Difference between Total Population and Admin. Population
- Fronde
- List of states that remained independent throughout European colonization
- War finished on time
May 15
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- Madonna Video With Hot Sweaty Modernist Industrial Men As Cogs / Gears In Factory Setting...
- Medieval painting identifications
- Racists in relationships with people of colour
- annales history
- The British economy since 1997
- A weird thought : "Vegetarians kill plants".
- Banking services as a component of GDP
- Country or government without debt
- Prime Minister's Questions - No. 5
- Gambling debts
- Book on geometry in Islamic art
May 16
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- Greek Theatre
- Did Carl Stephenson (Leiningen vs the Ants) actually exist?
- Image Copyright question
- Need to know who painted this
- similarites and differences berween ethics morality and law
- The English Reformation-the Bollocks of Henry VIII
- Hindu Gods
- US army vs the world
- Philanthropy
- John Paulson and Henry Paulson
- Landlocked island nations
- What are Energy Trusts?
- newspaper Canada natural resources
- Proof
- Stocks
May 17
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- What if they hadn't refused a title?
- help
- Debate wiki
- York v. Lancaster
- Classical and Anti hero traits
- Tolstoy and Shakespeare
May 18
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- What happened to the buildings?
- Credit and supply elasticity
- Integration of foreigners
- Is it true that masturbation was illegal in the Nazi Germany??
- Getting fires lit
- British medals
- Why am I standing here instead of...there?
- Legal math
- Little girl married with an old man
- Philosophy of Censorship
- HIDDEN HISTORY: Where is there evidence of black Americans in the Philippines, Guam and/or Wake Island between 1940-1945?
- UK Pub laws
- Operation Marylin
May 19
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- Female history photographer
- Sunken ship in the Thames
- Muftis
- Drugs in the Middle ages.
- Indian Muslims
- Arab world under Iran
- The Bodhisattva
- Current riots in South Africa
- MPs
- speak truth to power
May 20
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- Dog Training Equipment
- John Doe
- Is the USA a "State Sponsor of Terrorism"?
- Origin of this quote
- Self-identification
- International Wire Transfert exchange rate
- Yukio Mishima's grandfather
May 21
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- What is cultural assimilation?
- Patterms, motifs and xxx
- President Sfeir ?
- Quote about rhythm in the arts other than music...
- Maitlands and the crown
- France and Hanoverian succession
- European Left Pro-Iran ?
- Smoking in Public vs. Kissing in Public
- Work as a librarian
- Jesuit Power in Washington
- Gibbon on Apollonius of Tyana
- Loaning your campaign a few million
- tax avoidance
- World Heritage site?
- Distribution Restriction
- Ravel had three arms?
- Russian religion before Christianity?
May 22
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- OPEC/economics question
- youtube etc
- In the UAE you would be executed if you publicly say "I'm gay"?
- Murder?
- i Want an 3 page article on topic 'Birds-Feathered Friends,
- Nineteenth Century China
- How many generals in German Army in 1939
- Secular schools
- What is the largest number for a monarch/Pope in history?
- David Ricardo
- North Yemen
- Check on copyright status of a song?
- Calle Ocho artwork
May 23
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- Who is KANZO?
- The three jewels
- Arab league
- U.S. and Michigan child custody laws
- fostering
- Identity documents in the United States
- Trying to find a Greek sculpture
- Category for "Monotony"
- What poem am I thinking of?
May 24
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- knowledge of candidates
- Pinching and Dreams
- Who are these chicks?
- Identify font?
- art style
- Rumour painted full of tongues
- Plato and Buddhism
- author
May 25
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- Maronite Christians
- Date pronunciation
- Shigechiyo
- W
- If Barr were to carry the state of Georgia..
- AFTER AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
- playing musical instruments without looking
- knowing the law
- Fed backed real estate scam?
- Establishment of a British nationality
- Escape to Palestine
- Watergate's meaning
- let fools contend
May 26
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- Model and methodology
- Tenth century Byzantine policy to the caliphate
- SARS morbidity rates
- Organised crime
May 27
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- "Back up our battleskies!"
- Paradox?
- Foreign policy of Libya
- Allusion too obscure?
- Australia
- The Aswan High Dam
- Longest post-presidential career?
- Fundamentalist Mormon Women
- What are these architectural grids?
- Origins of credit card size?
- Latin American nationalism
May 28
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- Paul Nicklen Art
- dominating force
- US Air Force Distinguished Service Medal
- DHL company in Malaysia
- My religion is between my god and me
- inherit the throne
- Romani/Gipsy brass band music
- Are there social movements using wikis? And how?
- What is the name for the study of the history of printing / writing / the book?
- What is the Marxist Scientific Method?
- Historical Religious Flag
- Meaning of the name Pen Argyl , and the people who founded the town .
May 29
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- Name for belief about acquiring attributes
- Voodoo?
- Tin Woodman
- Who is this writer?
- Relation
- Question!
- Simple Question .... Long answer
- Gold State Coach
- Pear and Fig dish
- Secret codes in france WWII
- Governments & bank accounts
May 30
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- what are these buildings
- The River Nile
- Walibri's strange custom
- Is there a website with the names of clothes?
- Eastern Europe and Cluster Bombs
- Australian Experience
- Christian beliefs about life after death
- Child-in-Common
- early 20th-century Scandinavian criminal
- cremated remains found in a box