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Did Anahita's parents practice Zoroastrianism or Armenian Christianity?
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What are your favorite cover bands?
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History Why Did Ancient Greeks Excel in Sculpture but Not in 2D Perspective Art?
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Why was "No 1 (Royal Red and Blue)" able to sell for $75 million?
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Art What makes Japan's synchronized dance culture so astonishing?
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Amazing 19th Century Ice Ejection During Northwest Passage Sail
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Music Music Single Release - 'Life Before Death'
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Is This the Most Significant Gold Discovery in Norway's History?
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Why do we feel the need to type in all caps for acronyms?
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Music Some music pieces same/similar from the same artist
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Meaning of "selling war surplus groceries" in historical text
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What is the legal significance of using multiple synonyms in a legal sentence?
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History Recent history of measurement of 1 kg and other units
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Relief of Complex Gamma Fcn — was this hand drawn?
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Recommended Books for the Inquisitive or for the fun of it
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W. Jason Morgan, First Plate Tectonist, Dies at 87
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300 Silver Coins of Danish, Arab and Germanic origin found
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History Antequera - Ancient stone monument in Spain
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Randy Meisner, Eagles Founding Member, Dead at 76
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Lingusitics New Hybrid Model for the Origin of Indo-European Languages
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Olivia Newton John: Travolta's Love Interest & Tragic Passing
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How Did Sinéad O'Connor's Voice Capture Both Anger and Beauty?
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Excellence On Obscure Instruments
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Music Fusion of Western musical instruments
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So, anyone up for a game of quantum chess?
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In the definition of "look on", what does it mean by "stated way"?
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Searching for the Word for 100,000,000: Googleplex & Beyond
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Your thoughts on the Lord of the Rings series
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Is there a word for this? The means become the end...
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What does the phrase "Mined to the ground" mean?
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Welcome to try my digital designs
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Is Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon Still Relevant After 50 Years?
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Music Music I Can't Tolerate: Pet Peeves Revealed
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Major or minor -- Which do you find more pleasing?
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With ChatGPT, is the college essay dead?
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History What was Daniel Ellsberg's impact on American history?
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What is the meaning of the word Avoke? (English meaning)
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The Hacker Max Butler charges (several questions)
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News 3,000+ year old sword found in Bavaria, Germany
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Napolean's disaster and European chaos (1808-1814)
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R.I.P. Tina - A Tribute to a Beloved Friend
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History Where did ancient civilizations get their supply of iron?
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Question: What % of white Americans have colonial roots?
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Music What are your favorite Musicals?
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Iron Maiden's "To Tame a Land" question
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Is Galileo's Famous Quote About Heaven Lost in Translation?
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Where Did Andrew Jackson Really Come From?
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Tusi discovering laws of planetary motion before Kepler?
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Playing Video Games in a Language You Don't Understand
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Did the Mayans Use Chocolate as Currency?
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Biography of Marie Curie as Graphic Novel
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Music RIP Terry Hall: Remembering the Specials' Impact on British Music
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Do English Unstress Syllables Use Creaky-Voiced Sounds for Lower Pitch?
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Dardistan, one of the world’s most multilingual places
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Music How Can Quantum Entanglement Be Explained Through Metal Music?
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Dick Fosbury who invented the Fosbury Flop has died at 76
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News Berija's victims to be made public by 2028?
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The Big Lebowski: 25 Years of Cult Classic Hits
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History Were Rahu and Ketu considered true planets in ancient times?
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Poll: Database Mini Project of an Ancient Civilization -- Which One to Choose?
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RIP Wayne Shorter: Jazz Great Passes at 89
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Which key or scale? Dm, Gmaj, Cmaj, (maybe with B-flat-maj)
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The Scientist as Hero - or not
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When to hyphenate and when not to hyphenate?
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Translation software use in threads
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Lingusitics Did people in antiquity comment on word similarities across languages?
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Clothes designed to trick facial recognition software
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About the pointwise or distributed form of matter
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Ballet Performance | Ravel's Bolero
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Lingusitics What is the Easiest Spoken Language to Learn?
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English is not normal, says John McWhorter
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Art Can Mixing Different Styles of Dance and Music Create a Perfect Blend?
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What Was Clockwise Called Before Clocks Existed?
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Improve English Speaking: Blending Sounds
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Contractions in English: Adj + Noun
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Norway archaeologists find 'world's oldest runestone'
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Origin of Annona: Etymology & Sanskrit Meaning
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I remember some recent year events earlier than it is now written
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RIP Pelé (82) - Edson Arantes do Nascimento
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Is the pronunciation of 'where' in English commonly heard as 'w+schwa'?
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History Modern history of diesel-electric and electric locomotives
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I want to understand Wagner's Parsifal
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Sound Varieties: Rules for Varying Ranges
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Looking for a good grammar checker
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How does the glottis affect stress and unstress sounds in English?
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Tera and Tyra: Similar Marvels or Different Monsters?
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How to Make Voice and Voiceless Sounds
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Who was Sponsian? Roman Emperor?
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Can anyone translate this German for application to University of Hamburg?
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Medieval manuscripts discovered in church in Mediaș, Romania
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What Does the Russian Word Poshlost Really Mean?
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3D model I created of the largest steam locomotive ever built
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Music Stonehenge Had Good Acoustics For Voice And Music
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Where did Lincoln give his Gettysburg Address from?
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Rare gold coin from 1420s discovered in Newfoundland, Canada
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History History Channel - Recovery of part of Space Shuttle Challenger
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Consonants in English: Pronunciation Differences
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"A little consideration will show that...."
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