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October 1
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- historians similar to Niall Ferguson
- Belfast
- Conscription in the United States
- Which has less IRA-likeness, Scotland or Wales?
- "Milk must be pure to drink No Tests"
October 2
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- How does the United States withstand droughts?
- Programme partners and delivery partners in major capital projects
- Pied-Noir
October 3
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- What's the longest scheduled cargo ship round trip in the world?
- Guns
- Has China become less authoritarian?
October 4
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- Balloon boy hoax influenced by Pixar?
- Refrain singing
- "One son" from Hindu families brought up as a Sikh
- Nontrinitarian churches that practice infant baptism
October 5
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October 6
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- Babies
- Death of the Roman Republic
- In a failure to deliver, is there insurance for the long position holder analogous to a credit default swap?
- How to know which are the fake news?
October 7
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- Fallout from a nuclear bomb landing on Pyongyang
- Public sector vs private sector
- Discharged soldiers and yet-to-be-prosecuted military crimes
October 8
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October 9
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- Switzerland = Oligarchy?
- Why are there so many countries now than in the past?
- Has a city or town ever turned off it's lights for tourist or cultural reasons?
- G. K. Chesterton story
October 10
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October 11
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- Is this a colony?
- What is the wall at the American-Mexican border made of, and how long is it?
- Loyalists v. republicans in Belfast
October 13
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- What was the penalty for murder and manslaughter in Austria-Hungary and the German Empire?
- Are there records like clay tablets, papyrus, or parchment or stuff from historians like Herodotus or Josephus etc, that suggest or say that Atenists fled Egypt due to persecution after the death of Akhenaton and tried to keep their religion elsewhere?
- First Lord of the Treasury
October 14
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- IRGC
- Test TV Tubes Here Free! at the 7-Eleven (Hooray!)
- Competency based interviews
- California Public School ADA % Rate
October 15
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October 16
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- 1960s-ish experiment regarding the effects of alcohol on driving
- Need help finding an article
- Why is Judas Iscariot such a reviled figure if the canonical gospels state that Jesus was aware of his plans?
- Cashiering
- Was Ceres-Demeter depicted bare breasted in antiquity?
- State recognition and travel docs
October 17
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- Does Dubai have more Sunnis or Shias?
- How do researchers get participants to tell the truth [about academic misconduct, political convictions, sexual histories]?
October 18
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- Legal error in "The Chamber"
- American retirement system
- what was the total amount of people in the WORLD who died by gun in 2016?
- Janissary weaponry
- Do some people in Indonesia eat pork?
October 19
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- New York legal citation
- Where to write on "Forced circumcision of children"?
- How many polling stations are there in Venezuela?
October 20
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October 21
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October 22
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- Why are dirt-poor white guys considered "privileged", and what can we do about it?
- Trying to identify classic short story about thugs deceiving a person by hanging him from cliff blind folded but like only like 2 feet from the ground
- Using genetics tests to determine ancestry/ethnicity/heritage
- settlers moving West
- Free movement of citizens
- US universities
October 23
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October 24
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October 25
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October 26
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- Has a newspaper ever come chiseled on a stone tablet? (real use, not a stunt)
- cameras behind images
- When did tan women become more fashionable than non-tan women?
- Whore of Babylon
October 27
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October 28
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October 29
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October 30
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October 31
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