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For WW1 & WW2 History Buffs

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Feb 12, 2021

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Am I the only one into this power melodic metal Australian band?

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Girl From Ipanema (1964)

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How has Music influenced Science, Mathematics, and Technology?

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Cue "The Blue Danube"

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Why STEM songs are so rare?

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May 7, 2021

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Railroad history - Conrail, it isn't quite dead.

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May 6, 2021

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Software to determine the note and its register

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May 2, 2021

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Notation for drum parts when scores were hand written?

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May 1, 2021

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Untranslatable words

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May 1, 2021

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Good piece on the two largest famines

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Apr 30, 2021

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Most indecisive battles in history

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Apr 30, 2021

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I suck at practical art tests, but am excellent at theoretical art exams

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Apr 28, 2021

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News Are there any other songs about Relativistic time dilation (beyond Queen's song '39)?

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Apr 26, 2021

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Animated "Chess"

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Apr 19, 2021

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This is a 3D model I made of the Edmund Fitzgerald great lakes ship

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Mar 30, 2021

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Inadvertent plagiarism

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Mar 28, 2021

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Directors and the first note of a piece of music

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Mar 23, 2021

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Sean Carroll podcast on Issues Related to Basketball Analytics

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Mar 23, 2021

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Nouns that exist only in the plural

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Mar 22, 2021

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Making Whiskey Quickly

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Mar 21, 2021

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Crabs are cancer!(?)

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Feb 26, 2021

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Why didn't ancient civilizations harness the power of electricity?

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Feb 22, 2021

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Why haven’t we given any other species the gift of language?

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Feb 21, 2021

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Cartoon strips that survived after their originators

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Feb 20, 2021

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Nobel Prize in Literature 1936 was awarded to Eugene G. O'Neil

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Feb 17, 2021

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Sounds of g and c in Romance languages (and some of English)

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Feb 17, 2021

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Bluestones of Stonehenge were Originally in a Monument in Wales

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Feb 13, 2021

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A Shakespearean Guide to Quantum Mechanics

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Feb 11, 2021

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Petition for NASA to name TOI-1338 b in honor of musician SOPHIE

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Feb 5, 2021

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Bronze Age or Iron Age? Age of Nebra Sky Disk is disputed

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Jan 19, 2021

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Any clues to the origin of this pic (cross section of teeth)

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Jan 2, 2021

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Looking for a good metaphor

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Dec 24, 2020

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Phrases customarily mispronounced - "want to" etc.

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Dec 13, 2020

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Here is a 3D model I made of the Mir space station

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Nov 30, 2020

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What are the approximate harmonic amplitudes for a trumpet vs flute?

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Nov 23, 2020

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How to unroll a 2000 year-old scroll

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Nov 15, 2020

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John Tyler was US President 1841-45. His grandson just died.

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Oct 29, 2020

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Geography of the shahnameh

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Oct 18, 2020

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Does studying Latin help in learning other languages?

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Oct 10, 2020

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Should "any" be followed by plural form of nouns?

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Oct 4, 2020

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Technology and the chronology of expressions

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Sep 28, 2020

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Augmented 4th, Devil's Interval

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Sep 22, 2020

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Article - The first measurement of a star's size

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Sep 18, 2020

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So is lactose tolerance not a competitive advantage for Indo-Europeans?

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Sep 18, 2020

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Le Sacre du Shred

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Sep 17, 2020

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More new vinyl records sold than CDs

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Sep 16, 2020

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Megalithic structures

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Sep 16, 2020

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What instruments do you play?

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Sep 16, 2020

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Longest piece of classical music changes chords today

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Sep 8, 2020

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Stonehenge Had Good Acoustics For Voice And Music

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Sep 6, 2020

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My 3D modeling skill progression from 2018 to 2020

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Aug 31, 2020

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Guy who could read letters, but not numbers

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Aug 31, 2020

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News Berija's victims to be made public by 2028?

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Aug 31, 2020

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Has all the Good Music Been Played/Copied/Completed?

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Aug 28, 2020

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Use of the singular "they"

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Aug 27, 2020

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How to pronounce Greek letters properly?

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Aug 7, 2020

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[Engineering use of English] transition/changeover/passing/transformation

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Aug 6, 2020

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What would it take to make a “true” universal translator?

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Aug 4, 2020

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History Resources (documentaries etc.)

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Jul 6, 2020

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Foyle's War, The Hide - cause of explosion?

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Jun 5, 2020

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House Burning Down

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Jun 2, 2020

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The word "won't" does not look logically formed

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Jun 1, 2020

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Use of the term "Spike"?

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May 29, 2020

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History or hoax? "D-Day Through German Eyes"

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May 21, 2020

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Did the South have a chance to win the Civil War?

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May 20, 2020

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A standard piano keyboard juxtaposed with a 'balanced' keyboard

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May 16, 2020

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Homo Sapiens in southern Europe, ~44-46K years ago?

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May 15, 2020

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The What-Ifs of history - vs personal theories and speculations

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May 14, 2020

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French expressions

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May 7, 2020

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Help Translate Interview About Grete Hermann

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May 4, 2020

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Modern history of diesel-electric and electric locomotives

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May 1, 2020

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John Prine dies from Coronavirus at 73

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Apr 16, 2020

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Is Neil Young just a grumpy old musician?

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Apr 10, 2020

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Artemis Fowl film about to stream

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Apr 7, 2020

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Is this really Mussolini?

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Apr 6, 2020

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Robert Hunter, Lyricist of Many Grateful Dead Songs has Died

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Apr 5, 2020

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AT-AT model V2.0

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Apr 4, 2020

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Dog Sounds in Other Languages

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Apr 3, 2020

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Problems with English

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Mar 29, 2020

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RIP McCoy Tyner

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Mar 17, 2020

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Lost ancient kingdom uncovered in Turkey

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Mar 16, 2020

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RIP Max Von Sydow

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Mar 10, 2020

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Movement contraptions that inspired Newton's 2nd law of motion

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Feb 29, 2020

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How to write a novel, given the synopsis that I had written?

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Feb 24, 2020

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Learning Spanish but for Moving to Quebec

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Feb 23, 2020

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Turkic Monument, Dongoin shiree steppe, Eastern Mongolia

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Feb 21, 2020

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Where were Gaddafi's female bodyguards during his final days?

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Feb 2, 2020

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Double dime - a speed limit?

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Feb 2, 2020

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Question: What % of white Americans have colonial roots?

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Jan 24, 2020

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Love Means Different Things in Different Languages

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Dec 24, 2019

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WW2 - D-Day - Real Footage in Colour

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Dec 18, 2019

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Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition

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Dec 10, 2019

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Babies Buried With Helmets of Other Children’s Skulls

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Dec 9, 2019

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Here is an interactive 360 degree panoramic photo of a 3D model I made

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Dec 5, 2019

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Poll

Which music do you dislike the most?

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Nov 24, 2019

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"Where No Hare Has Gone Before"

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Nov 10, 2019

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Seems That It's Blade Runner Day

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Nov 1, 2019

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I think this sentence in a children's book is grammatically incorrect

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Oct 29, 2019

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3D model I created of the largest steam locomotive ever built

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Oct 29, 2019

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Contradictions about definition/meaning of the word "hypothesis" -- please clarify

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Oct 19, 2019

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