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Tusi discovering laws of planetary motion before Kepler?
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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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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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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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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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Is the pronunciation of 'where' in English commonly heard as 'w+schwa'?
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Music Identify this old film sampling in this song
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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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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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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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Long-lost star catalogue of the astronomer Hipparchus
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So is lactose tolerance not a competitive advantage for Indo-Europeans?
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How Did the Proto Indo-European Language Influence Modern Languages?
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How to never make a mistake with the object of a verb?
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Music Equal temperament vs instrument harmonics in music
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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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Is It Would Pronounced with a Schwa in English Speech?
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Linguistics: tense and lax 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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Farmer looks for hammer, finds gold and silver in Hoxne, Suffolk
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Spectral characteristics in linguistics
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Lingusitics The Tragic Fate of Baltic Finnish Languages
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Art Who are Tartars? William Dalrymple Quotes
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History 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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Music 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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History 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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What is the ideal balance of consonants and vowels in a spoken language?
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History "The Lightning Tamers" (Nonfiction history of science book)
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History The Curious History of Jaywalking
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Lingusitics Is English a Soft or Harsh Language for Communication?
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Here is a 3D model of 13th century French cathedral that I made
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History What are some must-see ancient history documentaries?
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The Mysterious Disappearance of a Revolutionary Mathematician
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Art Line Dance Swing Shim Sham at Carnation Plaza Disneyland
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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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History Science and Public Policy: an Interesting History
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Art How the Earth Was Made (or Evolved)
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News Is Write Me a Unique American Linguistic Feature?
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John Adams' Last Words: Fact or Fiction?
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How Is New Technology Transforming American Football?
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Video demonstration of playing an invisible piano
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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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Sean Carroll podcast on Issues Related to Basketball Analytics
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How did the alphabet evolve over time?
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US Forest Service, National Forests, and The Big Burn (1910)
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Music Vote: Which musical artist would you choose?
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John Prine dies from Coronavirus at 73
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History What Makes the Kansas Museum of History in Topeka a Must-Visit?
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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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How can I effectively display different types of worker coverage on a map?
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