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Music Talent Worthy of Wider Recognition
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Why weren't there lynchings in New England in late 1800s & early 1900s?
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Strong belief - Martian Boogie related to "Feelin' Good" of Little Junior's Blue Flames
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Wooly Bully
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Why do we spend so little time learning grammar in college?
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Tone Bending On Synthesizers
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Music Today's Fusion Music: T Square, Cassiopeia, Rei & Kanade Sato
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An "Untranslatable" Word?
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Tenor Sax
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Most Hard-Driving Music?
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Music What Happened to Talent?
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Raucousness In Music
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Rock and Roll Keyboard Players
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Some Realistic AI Animations That I Like
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History Most Lucrative Criminal Act Of All Time
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History Apollo 11 or Sputnik 1 - which was more significant?
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Music Songs that pay homage to deceased artists, no covers
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Likable AI Christmas Art
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History For WW2 buffs!
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A Trend That I Hate : Fake Video Dirt
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Extremely Weird Music
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Hermann Göring's Nuremberg Testimony
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Beware Fake History
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How should 10 to be pronounced?
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Antique Pocket Sundial
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Against AI Art
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Can someone identify this, from some New Orleans piano music?
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Favorite photographers and photographs?
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Ferris Eugene Alger
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Bronze age orientation
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Playing the guitar, the difference between being good and being a genius....
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RIP Chuck Mangione (84), Jazz Musician, flugelhorn, trumpet, piano
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RIP Tom Lehrer (1928-2025)
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