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Music Who is your favorite Jazz musician and what is your favorite song?
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Music Cover songs versus the original track, which ones are better?
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Favorite Mashups - All Your Favorites in One Place
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Likable AI Christmas Art
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Great ebass playing
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History Interesting anecdotes in the history of physics?
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Music What Happened to Talent?
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Extremely Weird Music
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Hermann Göring's Nuremberg Testimony
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History Biographies, History, Philosophy of Physics
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History Underwater Acoustics: Brief Historical Overview Through WWII
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Beware Fake History
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History For WW2 buffs!
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Aethelstan, King of the Anglo Saxons, first English King
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Music Today's Fusion Music: T Square, Cassiopeia, Rei & Kanade Sato
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How should 10 to be pronounced?
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A Trend That I Hate : Fake Video Dirt
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Hezingen, The Netherlands - deposits of coins and jewelry
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Music Talent Worthy of Wider Recognition
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Music Favorite songs (cont.)
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History Memorable quotes in the history of physics
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Synonym for troupe
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Against AI Art
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Can someone identify this, from some New Orleans piano music?
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Most Hard-Driving Music?
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The Great Gatsby
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History Going to the Catskills 1902
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Favorite photographers and photographs?
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Are clarity and clarification synonymous?
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What Does 'No Name Given' Mean on IDs and Its Cultural Implications?
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Songs that pay homage to deceased artists, no covers
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Why is the plural for moose not meese?
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The Chinese early experiments in Rocketry -- Do we owe them?
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Most Underrated Bass Player
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Music Why are ABBA so popular?
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Bronze age orientation
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Lingusitics Who writes this stuff? (Starship X article)
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Playing the guitar, the difference between being good and being a genius....
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RIP Chuck Mangione (84), Jazz Musician, flugelhorn, trumpet, piano
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Music Nice track
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Polish Trapezoidal Tombs Older Than the Egyptian Pyramids
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RIP Ozzy
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Interesting terminology and meanings - Letter Cases
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Music theory exam tomorrow - any last tips?
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Mad Magazine - A brief history
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Vocals to fall instantly in love with...
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Lingusitics I was wondering how English letters are standardized
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Adjustment for misadventures of an expected musician's performance
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The Ultimates In Funk
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Greek Mythology: Sisyphus
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Julian and Roman calendar names and month names & number
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History An old 1990's lecture by Hawking
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Origin of this phrase: "We shall see what we shall see..."
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Dance vs. Music
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How was tuning a piano done 50 or 60 years ago? (no apps back then)
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Shipping in 1942 (WWII)
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Metal, Rock, Instrumental Rock and Fusion
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Charles I & The English Civil War Documentary, and the Battle of Berestechko (1651)
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Thoughts about the US pronunciation of "margarine"
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Creative destruction examples
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Annie Potts
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Sociology: Why is self sacrifice an example of a deviant behavior?
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Music Melody ---> Chord Progression
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What happened to basketball brackets?
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What are your favorite Disco "Classics"?
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F.Y.I.
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An old-time smithy
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History of Public Education
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Art What is your favorite drawing?
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Unexpected Georgian-Telugu Resemblance
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Weird rhythm in this instrumental piece
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It gets worse the longer I look at it
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Music Returning to Live Performances
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Music Inexplicably liked songs
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Let's have some pun with chords E F# A B
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Origin of Indo-Europeans Found -- Lower Volga
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How did ‘concern’ semantically shift to mean ‘commercial enterprise' ?
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Music Wow -- Electric Violin
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Who Is the Most Underrated Rock Drummer?
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What's The Opposite Of Subtlety?
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Music What exactly is technically "off" with this rendition?
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Most Influential Physics PhD Thesis?
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History History is fascinating stuff!
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Looking for a source in Kierkegaard
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Methods for phonetic spelling
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Music How Does Queen's '39 Illustrate the Concept of Relativity in Music?
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How did ascrībō ('write') shift to mean figuratively 'impute'?
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Music Does anyone here like Will Wood / Will Wood and the Tapeworms?
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Musical resonance of a cylinder/tube with a hole in the center
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Music RIP Phil Lesh (84), Influential bassist & co-founder of Grateful Dead
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Music Is quantum physics easier than playing this guitar piece?
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RIP Quincy Jones
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Art How Can Sci-Fi Space Art Illuminate Science and Technology?
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History Who should have been the 4th laureate in the Nobel Prize in Physics?
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History Computer Revolution in 1983 Socialist Yugoslavia
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History The Ancient Lights of London
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"Third-party" for email but who is which "person"?
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Music Where are all the STEM songs hiding?
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Music Relaxation music for preppers and nerds .. 😉
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Lingusitics "In a couple of weeks' time"
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