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Post Your Favourite Classical Videos

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History Thanksgiving history - the story

  • Economist
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Which songs are stuck in your head?

  • Math Jeans
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Most touching poem, song, or except that evoked your feelings?

  • lLovePhysics
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News Have you checked out PhD Comic Strip yet?

  • G01
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History Where Did the Longbow Originate and How Does It Compare to Mongol Bows?

  • wolram
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History What is the Thracian legacy and where can it be seen in Bulgaria?

  • Astronuc
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Are most notable inventions derivative of military purpose?

  • LightbulbSun
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What is the significance of the Grotto of Romulus and Remus?

  • wolram
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History Galileo's impact on European history

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Byzantium, Byzantine Empire and Khazaria

  • Astronuc
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History What is the history behind Witch Balls and how are they made?

  • Andre
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History How will history judge President George W. Bush?

  • Loren Booda
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Which Image Represents "BUBA" and "KIKI"?

  • siddharth
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I Put a Spell On You - Screamin' Jay Hawkins

  • zoobyshoe
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Songs from TV commercials that you liked

  • ~christina~
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The Hooke Folio is now available online

  • Moridin
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Famous scientist break-ups (and possible reasons why)

  • Simfish
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How to Master Writing Zetas and Xis in Greek?

  • ehrenfest
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Checking historical trivia claims for accuracy

  • Astronuc
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Why non-native speakers use doubt instead of question

  • jtbell
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Van Halen with David Lee Roth (again?) on tour?

  • robphy
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The First Baby Boomer Collects Social Security

  • Ivan Seeking
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Are Dick Cheney and Barack Obama Really Cousins?

  • Ivan Seeking
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History Do shows like "Alien engineering" help or harm science education?

  • pervect
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News Robert Jordan's death and influence on fantasy readers

  • Evo
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Why do I misspell words I know correctly?

  • Ivan Seeking
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What should I look for in a first acoustic guitar?

  • Mk
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News How Much of an Effect did Gandhi Really Have On Britain?

  • loseyourname
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Thousands of hyphens perish as English marches on

  • Evo
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Who Were the Banjo-Whackers in This Classic Steve Martin Performance?

  • Math Is Hard
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Can You Hit These Notes? Talented Teenagers Sing and Play Beautiful Music

  • VietDao29
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Will You Watch Allison Krause and Union Station Live on PBS Tonight?

  • turbo
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Spanish for High School: English Definitions Quickly

  • Pre-AlgebraDude
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Is it possible to train the mind to have a photographic memory?

  • Werg22
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Is the Upper West Side in NYC Safe for a Weekend Trip?

  • Cyrus
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How Did They Camouflage an Aircraft Factory in WWII?

  • Math Is Hard
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Speaking italian by using a method that cia agents use

  • En_lizard
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Were ancient civilizations using pyramids as a form of GPS technology?

  • quantumcarl
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Can Someone Truly Master LaTeX to Replace Paper Completely?

  • Simfish
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Lingusitics How Do Music, Mathematics, and Descriptive Language Interconnect?

  • philawesomephy
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Recalling alphanumerical characters

  • Werg22
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News The costs of a cross country trip

  • Benzoate
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Corgi Comics Episode 11: King Corgi's Tomb

  • hypatia
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Lingusitics The Unintended Consequence of Language Translation

  • Ivan Seeking
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Tainted love -which version is best (least bad)?

  • arildno
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When to use hyphens in English?

  • Ivan Seeking
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How do we technically define emotion in singing?

  • Skhandelwal
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What is the term for thinking out loud in written form?

  • Ivan Seeking
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Queen Hatshepsut program on Discovery Channel tonight

  • Cyrus
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WTC 7: What Happened? Why Did It Collapse?

  • Moridin
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News A motorcycle ride through Chernobyl

  • Ivan Seeking
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Learning piano on a Yamaha digital keyboard without light-up keys

  • z-component
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Lingusitics Learning French or German through university courses without outside practice

  • JeffN
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News Road trip to Ohio to visit family

  • BobG
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What American accent do you have?

  • Evo
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Pre-historic humans, agriculture and civilization development

  • Fletcher
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What's the Best Gig You've Been to on the Fourth of July?

  • Schrodinger's Dog
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Is Proud of You a Song You Know?

  • KLscilevothma
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Archimedes Manuscript - The Palimpsest

  • Astronuc
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Unexplored ideas in Brian Wilson's music and legacy

  • wolram
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Dictionary Game: Explore the Uniqueness of Words

  • jiohdi
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News Were the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki terrorism?

  • cesiumfrog
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History Who Were the Boundary Folk in America's History?

  • wolram
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How do Americans and British people react to each other's accents?

  • ameriti$h
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History Hutchison on the History Channel?

  • moose
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How do I install Cantonese fonts on my computer?

  • JasonRox
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History History of Science to be re-written?

  • Cornellian
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Iron Age Figure Resembles Mickey Mouse - Uppåkra, Sweden

  • Ivan Seeking
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News What were the drawbacks of ancient Rome's sanitation systems?

  • Tosh
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What Are the Best 50's and 60's Songs for a Birthday Soundtrack?

  • fargoth
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Are the Dixie Chicks still standing strong against political backlash?

  • Ivan Seeking
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Lingusitics Is 3He:4He Ratio Redundant in Scientific Writing?

  • matthyaouw
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Did 1966 Predictions About 2000 Come True?

  • Ivan Seeking
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Why did European civilization flourish during the Little Ice Age?

  • Andre
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What musical patterns can be found in this mysterious code?

  • sanx
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News How many generals? Cannon Fodder?

  • denverdoc
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News Who Was Jack the Ripper According to South African Historian?

  • marlon
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News What Drives the Formation of Empires and Superpowers?

  • Rothiemurchus
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How Do You Pronounce Synecdoche?

  • Mk
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Is "from whom's point of view" grammatically correct?

  • Mk
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Nirvana LPs encoded at 200+ kbps MP3s

  • franznietzsche
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Why do people often stammer for words that begin with the letter 'a'?

  • Loren Booda
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Tribute to those lost at Va Tech.

  • Astronuc
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How Do You Start Writing Your First Song with Lyrics?

  • rhuthwaite
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Is Spanish becoming a necessary language to learn in the US?

  • Lisa!
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Will Hosting the Olympics Cripple Chicago's Traffic?

  • ZapperZ
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History Canuck history as Vancouver hockey

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What Are Common Gender-Neutral Names in Different Languages?

  • arildno
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Spell "Ay Yay Yay" in I Love Lucy

  • Physics is Phun
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A metal song that gives me goosebumps

  • ziad1985
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Unearthed English Terracotta Army by Hadrian's Wall

  • wolram
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Any Must-See Places in California for My Upcoming Trip?

  • AKG
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When Did the Sixties Really End?

  • George Jones
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Lingusitics Which Language Is Easier to Learn: French or Spanish?

  • En_lizard
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News Planning a California Road Trip - Advice Needed

  • EL
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History Two hour Disney World Special on History Channel 2PM ET

  • moose
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Why do certain songs trigger specific memories for us?

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