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Homo Sapiens in southern Europe, ~44-46K years ago?
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Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
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Indo European words for "two"
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English pronunciation: it would
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Linguistics: tense and lax consonants in English
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Consonants in English
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This is a 3D model I made of a nuclear power plant control room
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Best Music Ever
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Relief of Complex Gamma Fcn — was this hand drawn?
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Farmer looks for hammer, finds gold and silver in Hoxne, Suffolk
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Spectral characteristics in linguistics
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The Baltic Finnish languages
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Recent history of measurement of 1 kg and other units
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Who are Tartars?
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History of the United States, Vol I, Charles and Mary Beard, 1921
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How would one remove ambiguity from these sentences containing "just"
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We Lost Another Great Icon of Music of the 1960's: Judith Durham
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Did Columbus know he had discovered America?
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What was the composition of ether according to the ancients?
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Parentese, Universally Conserved Adult to Baby Human Speech
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Dardistan, one of the world’s most multilingual places
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8 Vowels and 24 consonants
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"The Lightning Tamers" (Nonfiction history of science book)
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The Curious History of Jaywalking
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English is the soft language?
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Ancient history documentaries
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The Mysterious Disappearance of a Revolutionary Mathematician
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Line Dance Songs
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English consonants in careless speech
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Is it permissible to omit words like "that" in relative clauses?
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Can we omit some words in colloquial conversation?
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Science and Public Policy: an Interesting History
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How the Earth Was Made (or Evolved)
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John Adams' last words
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New Tech for American Football
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Video demonstration of playing an invisible piano
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Fusion of Western musical instruments
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What was Isaac Newton's real face?
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Scots and Scottish Gaelic forever
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Henry III gold penny found in Devon, UK
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Evolution of the Alphabet
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US Forest Service, National Forests, and The Big Burn (1910)
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John Prine dies from Coronavirus at 73
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Kansas Museum of History
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How is a bureaucrat chosen in your country?
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Major or minor -- Which do you find more pleasing?
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Difference between the words "material" and "matter"
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Popular physics: Boltzmann Brains and Sci-Fi
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Biphasics sleep patterns in pre-industrial England/Europe
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Bluestones of Stonehenge were Originally in a Monument in Wales
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Great Human Genetics, Language and Culture Podcast
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Question about irrationality and irrational language <moved>
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Map Colour Design Challenge
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Poetry in the world of Physics
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Wendy Carlos's Moog-synthesized classics
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Untranslatable words
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Rutland Mosaic, Roman history in UK
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Railroad history - Conrail, it isn't quite dead
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Do You Think Photography is an Art?
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Veteran's Day
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What are your favorite Musicals?
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Stan Herd
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Help identifying these early American Indian tools please
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"Bloody", a discouraged word to use in Britain
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Chez Hélène - pronunciation
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Hobbies of PF members
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Finding vs find
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Reject vs rejection
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'Working example' vs 'worked example'
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Powers of Ten
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Hardest common words for you to spell
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Good piece on the two largest famines
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536 AD - The 'Worst' Year in History?
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Why STEM songs are so rare?
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Why do these Literary Theory textbooks write 'differential', rather than 'different'?
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Methodology / Philosophy of Science
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Here is a 3D model I made of a large industrial steam turbine
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On titles of publications in earlier times
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Words Used Differently to Describe Wine
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Spelling reform in reverse?
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(BBC) Bolze is more than a just a language: it’s a cultural identity
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Has all the Good Music Been Played/Copied/Completed?
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Fake Set-ups for Internet Posts
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How did WW II planes with tail wheels taxi?
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AT-AT model V2.0
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Most indecisive battles in history
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Here is a 3D model of 13th century French cathedral that I made
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"Zorba The Greek" dance music - based on traditional themes?
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The English word that hasn't changed sound or meaning in millenia
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Girl From Ipanema (1964)
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Am I the only one into this power melodic metal Australian band?
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How has Music influenced Science, Mathematics, and Technology?
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Cue "The Blue Danube"
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Software to determine the note and its register
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Notation for drum parts when scores were hand written?
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I suck at practical art tests, but am excellent at theoretical art exams
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