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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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Month lengths in the Gregorian calendar
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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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Anyone know that the Olivia Newton-John was Max Born's granddaughter?
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Lingusitics The Tragic Fate of Baltic Finnish Languages
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RIP David McCullough, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian
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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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Is the Aurora the Same Ship That Sailed to Helgoland in 1972?
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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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Cuban Missile Crisis, the Russian Side of the Story
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What is the Purpose of a Semicolon in a Sentence?
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What was Isaac Newton's real face?
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Scots and Scottish Gaelic forever
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Endurance22 Mission Finds Shackleton's Endurance Wreck: Proof of Preservation?
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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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Old road trip: Along the (Soviet) Russian border
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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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The Myth of the Greeks -- Did they steal from Egypt?
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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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Lingusitics Great Human Genetics, Language and Culture Podcast
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Lingusitics Question about irrationality and irrational language <moved>
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How can I effectively display different types of worker coverage on a map?
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A Question About Pronouncing Weird Words
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What was the significance of Lecompton, Kansas as the territorial capital?
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How Can Physics Be Expressed Through Poetry?
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Wendy Carlos's Moog-synthesized classics
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History Rutland Mosaic, Roman history in UK
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History Railroad history - Conrail, it isn't quite dead
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Art Do You Think Photography is an Art?
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Veterans Day: Should We Move It To Another Date?
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Art What Makes the Art of This Kansas-Based Artist Unique After 30 Years?
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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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What is the correct pronunciation of Chez Hélène from the 60s CBC TV show?
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Music PF Members' Hobbies: Music, Sports & More
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Understanding the Difference Between 'Finding' and 'Find' as Nouns
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Reject vs Rejection: Understanding the Difference
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'Working example' vs 'worked example'
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Hardest common words for you to spell
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Why do words and mathematics seem to have different levels of complexity?
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Good piece on the two largest famines
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History 536 AD - The 'Worst' Year in History?
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Differential/Different Adjectives: A Non-Native English Speaker's Quandary
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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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Lingusitics Ah, another of these language questions....
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Is pronunciation reform the key to a fully phonetic alphabet?
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Lingusitics Learning Target Language with Mother Tongue-subtitled Series
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Lingusitics (BBC) Bolze is more than a just a language: it’s a cultural identity
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Music Has all the Good Music Been Played/Copied/Completed?
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What is the Difference Between 12:00 AM and 12:00 PM?
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Are Instagram Theme Parks Shaping Our Perception of Culture?
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How did WW II planes with tail wheels taxi?
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AT-AT Model V2.0: Improved Design and Detailing in Blender
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History Most indecisive battles in history
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Art "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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