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French: "S'il Vous Plaît" Direct Translation to English
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Help Translate Interview About Grete Hermann
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Music Is Neil Young just a grumpy old musician?
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Art Artemis Fowl film about to stream
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Is This Really Mussolini with My Great Grandfather?
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Music Robert Hunter, Lyricist of Many Grateful Dead Songs has Died
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History RIP Neil Peart, Greatest Drummer in History
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Lingusitics Are Animal Sounds in Different Languages Accurate Representations?
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Lingusitics English Language Struggles: Overcoming Problems
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Remembering Jazz Legends of the 60s
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History Lost ancient kingdom uncovered in Turkey
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RIP Max Von Sydow: A Great Swedish Actor Passes Away
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Movement contraptions that inspired Newton's 2nd law of motion
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How to write a novel, given the synopsis that I had written?
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Learning Spanish but for Moving to Quebec
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Turkic Monument, Dongoin shiree steppe, Eastern Mongolia
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History Question about the history of mathematics
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Where were Gaddafi's female bodyguards during his final days?
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Is Double Dime Really Code for a 55mph Speed Limit?
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Lingusitics Love Means Different Things in Different Languages
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WW2 - D-Day - Real Footage in Colour
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Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition
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Babies Buried With Helmets of Other Children’s Skulls
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Here is an interactive 360 degree panoramic photo of a 3D model I made
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History What are the most important physics publications in history?
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Music Which music do you dislike the most?
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Can 3D Modeling Bring Classic Star Trek and Looney Tunes Together?
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Seems That It's Blade Runner Day
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I think this sentence in a children's book is grammatically incorrect
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Hypothesis: What Does it Really Mean?
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Goodbye Mad Magazine: A Tribute to a Generation of Cynics and Satirists
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Who Were Sir Isaac Newton's Rivals in the Scientific World?
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History Searchable museum of American history
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Any Fans of CBS's Sunday Morning?
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What Secrets Will the Oseberg Exhumation Reveal?
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Did the Germans have a chance to win World War II?
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Minkowski & Einstein: Hyperbolic Geometry Breakthrough?
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GEB: Exploring Douglas R. Hofstadter's Strange Loops
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History Do ancient names persist in modern culture?
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History History's First Science Experiments - Comments
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Want to relax and be happy? Listen to Death Metal
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What is the Origin of the Term 'Prism'?
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Music Evolutionary Benefit of Odd Music Rhythms
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Lingusitics Pet Peeves of your native language
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Livestream AI Generated Death Metal
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V-words, f-words and the advent of softer foods (cooking)
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Terminology question: "so-called"
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Lingusitics How Have Dynamical Systems Approaches Influenced Contemporary Linguistics?
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The origins of European Megaliths
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Ready to Master the Charango? Get Yours Today!
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Insights An Introduction to the Traditional Abacus of China and Japan - Comments
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How Does Logic Evolve in Human and Animal Psychology?
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1982 MIT Pranking of Harvard-Yale (American) Football Game
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Are Steam Punk Lamps the Next Trend in Lighting Design?
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Word of the Year 2018: Toxic & Its Impact
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What Historical Sites Can You Explore Through 360-Degree Panoramas?
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Oldest Ship Wreck Found in Black Sea
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News Brazil's National Museum is Destroyed in a Fire
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Music Pre-Roman Musical Instrument Found Near Rome
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News New massive Mayan site discovered in Guatemala
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Music Understanding Music's Irregular Octave Divisions
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Art Bridge Art -- Sundial Bridge at Reading, California
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Placement of adverbs - "only" and others
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Oldest Public Library of Germany found in Downtown Cologne
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No wonder English is difficult for new learners
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History Drought in Ireland Reveals Ancient Henge
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Stanley Kubrick Photos from Before he did Movies
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Skull Rack and Towers found in Mexico City
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Did Stonehenge Builders Use Pythagoras's Theorem First?
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Lingusitics Koko the sign language gorilla has died at 46
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History History of Nuclear Weapons -- Lisa Meitner's role
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Boccherini cello concerto, mostly by someone else
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Lingusitics English language -- difference between "serious" and "careful"?
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Gate to Hell found by Archeologists
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Himani Bannerji's "The Other Family"
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Answering phones "talking" vs "speaking"
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Lingusitics Having more than one mother language
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Art Santiago Ramón y Cajal Art Exhibit in NYC
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Is Ain't a legitimate word in today's language debate?
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Quick question about the medieval period?
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Discovering Everyone's Favorite Band(s)
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Lingusitics Language pet peeve -- mano a mano in Spanish
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Music Listening to Corelli's Christmas Music for the Holidays
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What gear do electric guitar players prefer and why?
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Is it possible to have structures older than 500,000 years old
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Art Are art and science bad friends?
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How did Robert McNamara's 100 megaton bomb stay hidden from the public eye?
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How Did Planck Relate His Radiation Law to Maxwell's Equations?
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Music Tom Petty: Music Icon & Rock Legend RIP
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Art My Video Art (fractals, video feedback loops, etc)
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How easily earn advanced degree, any humanities
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Who Named America? Surprising Facts About Its Origins
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Art Can Equations Be Aesthetic Art?
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Old English Rune Poem Translation | Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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History Very interesting article on ancient tablet
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Find the Building: Solve the Clues & Show the Map!
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Art Hobby Lobby smuggles thousands of Iraqi artifacts
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Music Some street music .... this guy is awesome
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