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February 1
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Agency ranking private schools in Mexico
Two similar men?
Contemporary realist painter: series of paintings of young adults partying
What plantation did this person live on before the Civil War?
Non-judicial agreement
Viking boat construction
February 2
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Machine-gun firing squads
Who is the celebrated "Rudpiki"?
Creativity and Innovation
Global Economic Inequality and the Law
Capitalism and Anti-Communism in India
February 3
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UN parade with US troops from Korean conflict 1952
Copyright assertions by dead people
Could Woody Allen be indicted?
Jack Cornwell VC shell splinters
Wealth and Divine Reward
America, Australia and Secular Republics
February 4
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Nellie McClung
article help
Oliver Sipple
Name of a painting (and artist)
February 5
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Private surveillance questions
Benemerent Metal
End of inheritance estates
Is this legal the way this guy is filming this "drug addict" in Vancouver?
Olympic sports
Health insurance and employers
February 6
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Jus solis vs. jus sanguinis principles in running for president in the U.S
Citing and Reference
2 notes played at the same time question.
Ads
Receiving immunity
Anyone ever actually been found and rescued thanks to their Breitling Emergency watch?
February 7
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Wealth, Justice, and Superpowers
Origin of surname
"It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness" origin
How do you plead?
What is the The Percy Anecdotes?
Percy's anecdotes and pay for Scottish soldiers
Who was the first female Lutheran pastor?
Orignin of surname Or Shahar
America, Republic and Empire
February 8
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Environmental Impact of Christian Countries
gay organized crime mafia?
"Marriage is promised" What does it mean
What lies ahead? request for horoscope)
Looking for books
Trade Unionism in Banking in India
February 9
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Woodrow Wilson
"Final Solution"
Travel times in 1870's New England
February 10
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Music Kaetlyn Osmond skated to in the long program today?
Identifying a fairytale/fable
Probability and Law?
Buloburde = Bulo Burto ? (Somalia)
Which competitions has Italian classical saxophonist Mario Marzi won?
OED definition of "Scientific Method"
Reasons for the one parent requirement minimum in jus sanguinis citizenship?
February 11
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What's the battle flag of the Confederate States Army?
Indian name complexity
Pseudonymous authors who keep/kept their identities secret for unknown or undisclosed reasons
First convents in Ireland since the English conquest?
February 12
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Portugal in Africa
Who crowned Henry V?
Anne Seymour Damer and the Walpoles
winter olympics nations that have snow
Closest spot to equator to regularly get snow ?
How many people had personal computers with Internet connection in 1997?
Same-sex marriage among indigenous people in Canada
Blazons
Why is Astronaut Group 20 called "The Chumps"?
February 13
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Typical Monday, Tuesday, Friday, or Saturday for a devout, practicing Catholic during the days outside of Lent and Advent?
ca. 1970s science fiction short stories about an "intersexual" vampire race.
February 14
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Railway jurisdiction
Name of the Female Athlete in the Pink Costume Here
Valentine's Day
February 15
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The Church of England, the Sovereign, and the Prime Minister
White people in Togo & Benin.
February 16
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Manner of death
Marcin Ignaczak
Bank loans to corporations, and directors' personal guarantees
Sex = Love
February 17
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Vietnamese protest in Washington 1974
how do we go about finding donnors for an income project for non governmental organization
Croydon Crook
Secession from the Russian Federation? (was USSR Dissolution)
Why more Indian indentured workers were imported, not Chinese to Guyana?
Can a country be led by a dead person?
Soviet Adam and Eve book
February 18
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Kickstarter for causes?
Contradiction at Luke 1:48 (NIV) and Luke 11:27-28 (ESV)
"How do you plead to the specification ?"
February 19
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Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam
Obituary
Worldwide depression data set
Identify this 1840s woman
Are any pre or inter-war German MPs still alive?
Sociological Effects of the "New Rich"
Name changes and married names among the nobles and et cetera
Lady Franklin's Travel
Postrace
Happiness
February 20
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Waltz played S01E01 American Version of House of Cards?
Color changes over historical time
Afroyim v. Rusk and John Demjanjuk
Why this ultra specific tuning is used in music?
arbitration where parties can't agree on an arbitrator
Importing and exporting stuff
contact info. for Inchegeri Sampradaya in India / contact info. for english speaking Disciples of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
How did the Catholic Church rise to power and become abusive during the Middle Ages?
Robert's Rules of Order
February 21
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DWK statue
Moral event horizon: does morality exist in North Korea?
Nappy pack sizes
White opposition to the Jim Crow laws
Appliance kidnapping?
February 23
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Soviet women's national teams
Secrecy of execution statistics
Shakespeare
Montrose Baptist Church in Rockville, MD
Ukraine peacefully coexist with both European Union and Russia
February 24
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Anne Hathaway
Missing article in Wikipedia
Can one call oneself "Right Reverend Father" whilst defrocked and excommunicated?
is it okay to eat cheese with white hairy mold in it internally
71 sects of judaism, 72 sects of christianity and 73 sects of islam
Eponymous law regarding failure of business following building an expensive corporate headquarters
Martha Washington College
February 25
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Small Catechism in Modern Times
Origin of surname "Bohiw"
MARIA LUISA PARK - SEVILLE - SPAIN
February 26
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Navamsa chart
Help me to answer this question or find the flaw in this analogy
Why are there so many Catholics in the Western mediterranean countries?
Do Muslims even proselytize in the West?
why do brits know the nato (phonetic) alphabet so much better than Americans?
Kreishauptmann und Beamtentum
February 27
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Why would a human brand a human with a 'heart' back when slavery was still, y'know, legal?
Autism Anorak
Which 2013 Major League Baseball pitcher had the best batting average?
O HENRY's The Romance of a busy broker
Pocket watches
Did a higher % of Ancient Chinese works survive compared to Greco-Roman?
Cyrano de Bergerac in the digital age
How did Christianity spring from a not-so-proselytizing religion?
Military artists
"A different kind of gay"
February 28
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Peculiar sound
Number of convictions in Ireland
Is there a Western secular equivalent to "Honor your mother and your father" or "filial piety" or some form of parental respect?
Correspondence with Japanese death-row inmates?
Is any wikibook on history used in any school?