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Post Your Favourite Classical Videos
- JasonRox
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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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Is Van Morrison's Voice Fading? A Review of His Recent Performance on ASL
- turbo
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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
- dontdisturbmycircles
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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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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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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
- Smurf
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What is the rare clip of Enrico Caruso and Titta Ruffo recording together?
- arildno
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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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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?
- Ivan Seeking
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