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- To what extent does gross private domestic investment determine the rate of growth?
- Limbo (needs more definition)
- Subnational teams competing at the national level
- Great Cleveland Sickout -- are RNC delegates really required to vote?
- People and places
- Cebuano wiki
- UK Banks issuing MasterCard/Maestro Debit cards
- Birth and death Statistics
- Atlantis
- Front matter
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CondemingCondemning/Denying permission to make a movie- Are the remaining Republican Party presidential primaries still held if a nominee already has the required number of delegates?
- William Henry Dimond
- Physical Exemptions from Conscription
- Is Mexico willing to exhange land for Baja California?
- Battleships which never saw combat
- Ted Cruz' last week or so
May 5[edit]
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- What happens if a nominee for U.S. President is no longer available or interested after he receives the nomination?
- Ruskin's List of the Best Hundred Authors
- Esther Meynell - alleged Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury
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- Is HMNB Devonport still the biggest naval base in Western Europe?
- Project management
- Are warship battle honours considered heritable?
- medieval Hospitals?
- Impact of floods on rural medieval cities?
- Commercial viability
May 8[edit]
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- Historiography
- what did he do during 1939-1945 ?
- Why did Stanisław Mackiewicz went back to Poland?
- Corporate culture in non profit and government organisations
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- First knowledge of the Great Pyramid in the West?
- British chapel at Athens
- A street in Athens
- Is antivenin really 2,000 times cheaper in India?
- Immovable judges
- Is kohl popular in Israel?
May 13[edit]
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- Grave of Charlez Russel
- All-time total UK MPs
- Andersen (?) fairytale
- History
- Anglo Saxon Kings of England
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- Shares of stock
- Currency basket
- Perceptions of "the beginning of history" in England vs. the rest of Britain and Ireland
- When were totem poles first descibed in writing?
- Magyar raids in Northern France?
May 17[edit]
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- It's clearly a budget
- Elector system trouble scenario
- If a real priest, minister or rabbi played the same in a marrying scene?
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- If either of the front running presidential candidates were to die or become incapacitated before the general election, what would happen?
- Vice President of the USA - Question 1
- Vice President of the USA - Question 2
- Photos of August Natterer
- Who was W.G?
- Execution vs. suicide
- Psychology of gambling
May 21[edit]
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- Four mosques in St. Cloud, Minnesota
- Reason for Xiamen – Shenzhen – Seattle flight route
- Hijacking PRC airliners to gain political asylum in Taiwan
- don't get it...
May 22[edit]
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- circumvent the Jones Act by Hawaii/Alaska-Vancouver-Seattle
- What happened to the nightclub(s) in Russia where naked men swim in fish tanks?
- Has there ever been an external tariff?
- Can someone tell me why social people don't want to dance before midnight?
- Do drug addicts ever love the substance?
- Landscape Drama and Music
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- Price of a bottle of Coca-Cola in ~1916
- Benjamin Jowett's translation[s] of Plato
- Paul Stahl (soldier)
- Scenario
- Oxford University reforms 1854
- Leigh Hunt's speech impediment
May 25[edit]
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- Do transsexual bathroom rights come with a dress code or identity check?
- Male and female attraction to breasts
- Scorsese surname origin
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- how and why is the harmonic curve you see on the neck of a concert or Paraguayan harp, or the treble bridge of a piano is calculated.
- Secondary school-level reading lists