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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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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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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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Animated "Chess"
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MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Music, and.... SPIDERS!
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This is a 3D model I made of the Edmund Fitzgerald great lakes ship
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Inadvertent plagiarism
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Directors and the first note of a piece of music
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Sean Carroll podcast on Issues Related to Basketball Analytics
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Nouns that exist only in the plural
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Making Whiskey Quickly
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Crabs are cancer!(?)
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Why didn't ancient civilizations harness the power of electricity?
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Why haven’t we given any other species the gift of language?
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Cartoon strips that survived after their originators
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Nobel Prize in Literature 1936 was awarded to Eugene G. O'Neil
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Sounds of g and c in Romance languages (and some of English)
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A Shakespearean Guide to Quantum Mechanics
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Petition for NASA to name TOI-1338 b in honor of musician SOPHIE
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Bronze Age or Iron Age? Age of Nebra Sky Disk is disputed
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My daughter's first music single....'Confined'
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Any clues to the origin of this pic (cross section of teeth)
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Looking for a good metaphor
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Phrases customarily mispronounced - "want to" etc.
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Here is a 3D model I made of the Mir space station
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What are the approximate harmonic amplitudes for a trumpet vs flute?
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How to unroll a 2000 year-old scroll
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John Tyler was US President 1841-45. His grandson just died.
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Geography of the shahnameh
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Does studying Latin help in learning other languages?
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Should "any" be followed by plural form of nouns?
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Technology and the chronology of expressions
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Augmented 4th, Devil's Interval
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Article - The first measurement of a star's size
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Foreign language translation help please, “have been around”
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Any Archers or people interested in archery history here?
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Le Sacre du Shred
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More new vinyl records sold than CDs
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Megalithic structures
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What instruments do you play?
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Another language question - where do you run from the world?
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Longest piece of classical music changes chords today
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My 3D modeling skill progression from 2018 to 2020
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Guy who could read letters, but not numbers
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Use of the singular "they"
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Philosophy and history forums recommendation
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Ah, another of these language questions....
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How to pronounce Greek letters properly?
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[Engineering use of English] transition/changeover/passing/transformation
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What would it take to make a “true” universal translator?
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