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Lingusitics Are early withdrawals from a Roth IRA subject to penalty and income tax?

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Help identifying a Bruce Springsteen song from a video

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Lin Yu Chun Sings Whitney Houston's 'I Will Always Love You'

  • cronxeh
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What happened to the crew of the Mary Celeste?

  • Ivan Seeking
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Lingusitics Effective Strategies for Learning a Second Language as a Scientist

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Enhance Your Strengths or Improve Your Weaknesses?

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History Is Scientific Progress Linear or Exponential?

  • Nusc
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Lingusitics What is the Role of Metaphors in Cognitive Linguistics?

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Films and Videos of Historic Events

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History Metamacrohistory (The meta is only there to annoy you.)

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History Is Texas Reshaping American Education with Conservative Textbooks?

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News What to do on an 8 hour plane trip?

  • Math Is Hard
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The first transatlantic telegraph cable

  • waht
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Major Weapon Advancements Made During World War 2

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Comparative analysis of historical events (1600-1900)

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What were some of the largest jackrabbit drives in Kansas?

  • Ivan Seeking
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What were the ancient temples in Peru used for?

  • wolram
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How Were the Massive Stones of Baalbek's Temple of Jupiter Moved?

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Translate Word Puzzles as Complete Sentences

  • HawkLogic
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Why do historians use BC and AD notations?

  • Rajini
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Place the State Game - Challenge Your Kids!

  • Evo
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A Night Out with Tim Minchin: Ready for This?

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History America History between 1877-1990. Need something science related.

  • um0123
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Songs with the word woman in them

  • Math Is Hard
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Learning hand percussion: djembe, darbuka, and udu

  • Dembadon
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What Instrument Is Featured in This Song?

  • Stratosphere
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Why the English Adopted the Latin Alphabet

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History Why is Jesus Often Depicted as White?

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Did Hitler personally kill anyone besides his dogs?

  • Smurf
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Is Learning to Write with Both Hands Worth the Effort?

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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How do you say "You are beautiful" and "I want to kiss you" in Hindi?

  • kexue
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Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale

  • Pupil
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History Looking for history of candlelight vigils

  • Newai
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Greatest scientists who never won a nobel prize

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Where Do the Original Words in PIE Come From and Why Do Languages Diverge?

  • Char. Limit
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How do you pronounce Michio Kaku?

  • murshid_islam
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Songs so difficult that they should only be done once

  • Ivan Seeking
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Tim Minchin's song If I didn't have you

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'Energy' - is it an adjective or noun?

  • Nickelodeon
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News Were the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki justified?

  • noblegas
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About ancient ruins- missing blocks and stone?

  • Newai
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I heard a great song by Linkin Park recently.

  • Char. Limit
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How many words-per-minute do you read? Online test.

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The Chimney Song lyrics and discussion

  • Evo
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IPA choosing correct pronunciations of words

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Help Identify Unknown Song: Piano/Synth/Organ Riff

  • kenewbie
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That's one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind.

  • Richard87
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Does a quotation after a colon need to be an independent clause?

  • finebykris
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History Warriors and Lock N Load on History Channel

  • Evo
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How can I improve my handwriting on whiteboards?

  • Pinu7
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How did Ed Witten learn physics without an undergrad physics degree?

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History How to use mathematical equations to predict people? History of equations?

  • 27Thousand
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Lingusitics Why I hate the english language.

  • Neo_Anderson
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How were the Egyptian Pyramids Built?

  • extraordinarygirl
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Was the French Revolution preventable?

  • kks23
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Is Bob Dylan's Songwriting Enough to Justify His Status in Rock Music?

  • gravenewworld
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Soviet female fighter pilots of the Second World War

  • Auron
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Galileo's fingers discovered in Florence museum

  • jtbell
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How you were accepted into college during the preindustrial era

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Should Bill Wilson have won the Nobel Peace Prize?

  • Neo_Anderson
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Lingusitics Learning to comprehend a foreign language.

  • Jimmy Snyder
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Beethoven's 5th as Bar Graph Animation with Instructions

  • WiFO215
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Making rho and p distinct in handwriting

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Plural form of acronyms like CERN

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News Where I was when the Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989

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Large mud building in Lejre may be Viking cult site or beer hall

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News How Did Ted Kennedy's Legacy Endure Despite Controversies?

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Lingusitics Why is English spelling inconsistent with pronunciation?

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Was the Battle of Agincourt as One-Sided as History Claims?

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When the Mona Lisa was stolen from the louvre museum in paris in 1911

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History History Channel' Universe Series - What went wrong?

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Explanation for the Depopulation of the native americans

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Mam talent II episode discussion

  • Borek
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Lingusitics How Can I Translate Thai Fridge Specs to English?

  • pixel01
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The jousting accident that turned Henry VIII into a tyrant

  • Auron
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Who were the first humans in Native American creation myth?

  • wolram
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Lingusitics Can You Solve the Automata Language Problem?

  • vectorcube
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Who Really Coined the Quote on Time's Necessity?

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Fighting through anti-war protests to enlist in the Navy, October 1969

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Art Can We Make History and Dance Together on October 25th?

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Which Country Tops the 2019 Human Development Report Ranking by UNDP?

  • Monique
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Lingusitics Why Do Some Words Have Different Meanings in Everyday Language and Science?

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Lingusitics Good Foreign Language for Physicists

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The best online English dictionary?

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Songs with street names in their titles

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Roman toilet found (and an amphitheatre)

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News What exists in the theory of descriptions?

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Your Favorite Tune of The Week (02/10 - 09/10)

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Detroit's decline: how much has really changed since the 1980s?

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News The Man Who Might Have Become Sultan

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Finding the Right Writing Solution for Me

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What did the Maya actually predict about astronomy?

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History Recent archaeological discoveries in Mayan caves and cenotes

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Fragment from worlds oldest Bible found hidden in Egyptian monastery

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What is photographic memory and can you develop it?

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How Has Camm's Bar Survived Since the End of Prohibition?

  • Ivan Seeking
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Lingusitics How did early humans think without language?

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Prehistoric Butter Barrel Found in Gilltown Bog, Kildare

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