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October 1
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- Dominica
- First-rate on a lake
- Marrying Adopted brother/sister or cousin
- Western influence in Africa
- "That is so gay"
- The name 'European Union'
October 2
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- Health Care Prices
- A women-only Swedish city
- IOC and Barack
- Foreign currency reserve requirements
- Criminal organisations in Russia
- APA Publication Manual errors
- Urdu as Muslim World's Second language?
October 3
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- Art and money
- Murder in a gay couple.
- Is there a word for Oriental/Asian/Mongoloid that is politically correct, accurate, and non-offensive?
- Left-wing unionism
- Brit honors
- Royals of Multiple birth
- The Importance of Punctuation
- Is there any technique to defend yourself from a shark attack?
- Looking for newspaper articles
- Religion of Lithuania before the Teutonic Knights
October 4
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- Funding political parties
- Aid and relief
- A thought experiment of sorts...
- Needed for urgent problem facing before debate!!!!!
- testifying in death penalty cases
- John de Bohun, 5th Earl of Hereford
October 5
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- Divorce in Interracial Marriage
- Alternatives to market price
- Market price in the Bible
- Evolution theory and Bible
- Magda Goebbels in <<Parents who killed their children>>?
- World Bank loans.
- Constitution convention
October 6
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- Help! How to suggest an article to add to Wiki.
- What are you opinions?
- A page that used the color red as an example
- Privately owned land tracts
- testifying at death penalty trials
- Copyright claim in a US telephone book?
- Mary Plantagenet, a daughter of Edward I of England
- company takeover
- English upper class attitudes to working and money
- Who is the richest Wikipedian?
- Trenches In Gallipoli WW1
- Why is Associated Press calling Charles Kao American?
- Religious Jews
- Palindrome music
October 7
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- Who were some pre-Marxist Communists?
- Common personality traits of wikipedians
- are there secret laws in the united states?
- What kind of logical fallacy would this be ?
- Great Examples of Apologies in History
- Politics
- Is there a term that define apparent small edit wars with big meaning?
- Justices entering courtrooms from behind curtains
October 8
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- Aftermath Gandhi's assasination
- Sindhi shia
- Persecution of homosexuals in the Nazi Germany
- 1971 liberation war a religion-based civil war
- IS there really a presidents book?
- Social criticism in poems/songs
- Roman Polanski
- Public Use of Research Papers
- Jury Duty
October 9
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- 1971 Pakistani Military figures
- Christopher Columbus influences and experiences
- Princess of Serbia
- Pro-LGBT bias on Wikipedia
- gymnast 1889 world championship Paris
- Henry Tucker (composer)
- does the bible show Jesus losing his temper?
- Speeches
- Stability of interfaith marriages
- Which countries has the Westboro Baptist Church organised pickets in?
- How long do libraries retain records? - Herbert N. Foerstel
- Evaluations of how-to-get-organised and time-management books
- Mosaic Law
October 10
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- Inbreeding
- Nobel Peace Prize 2009 - taxed?
- Comparative Constitutional Engineering: An Inquiry into Structures, Incentives and Outcomes
- Mid-day
- Can President Obama keep the Nobel Prize Money
- What tools do you need to know to test a theory?
- Can the State breach a plea bargain and sentence the criminal?
October 11
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October 12
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- Violent crime in Saudi Arabia
- Difference between Marginal Utility and Marginal Benefit
- The Boleyn Ground
- Civilian Security Force in U.S.
- Milne: fear and boredom of war
- Ukrainians
- 'Ovnt Lid' by Itzik Manger
- Julius Caesar (the play)
October 13
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- Aging in cartoons
- Free lightweight bookkeeping software
- Who won the Second Anglo-Afghan war?
- factors of production
- ATBLA subject matter, No conflict of interest
- Two masjids in one?
- Girlfriend trouble
- What happened to the Okies?
- "Seagull wine"
- Where to live in the world?
- Christ myth theory
- India and preparations
October 14
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- Where are the Soviet scientists?
- Sundays in Israel
- Mamma Mia
- world history
- searching for architectural information
- Geography question
- BeKoF intro.....
- MEITEISM
- Youngest voting age
- Martin Luther King's wife
- black and white
- Chinese "culture" question (maybe it's not really about culture)
- Pay Palestinians
- Fear of one's betters
October 15
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- Tahiti
- What is the annual budget of the US Department of State Office of the Legal Adviser?
- Israeli terrorists
- Interesting Geography / General knowledge question may be some history
- two victims nowadays
- Copyright restrictions on Olympic photos
October 16
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- what is the hookers, escorts, and masseurs association?
- Odd abbreviation
- John Dee on the colours of angels
- If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?
- Missing reference to primary source in http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Papier-m%C3%A2ch%C3%A9_Tiara
- Henry Kissinger and the Turkish invasion of Cyprus
- Question regarding the entry "China" in Wikipedia's database.
October 17
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- which type a plant of miswak is used for these important person? Prophet Muhammad P.B.U.H, Prophet Isa Aliah Salam and Prophet Musa Aliah Salam for cleaning the teeth?
- William and the Nasties
- Hadith about killing anyone who insults Prophets of Islam?
- Chinese People
- Victoria of the UK + George V of Hanover?
October 18
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- Black Brazilian President?
- Victoria vs. Tzu Hsi
- Ganga and Brahmaputra - Are they tributaries of each other?
- Why has the European clothing style spread throughout the world?
- Oriental vaginas
- How too write a "diary" in the proper language of "tone" of the late 18th centurey
- Common sense vs women's intuition
October 19
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- About a ID
- Scottish independence
- Jesus genealogies
- For how many years was mahjong officially banned in China?
- Hamlet rejecting Ophelia
- Cost of Dissolution of Czechoslovakia?
- What is word for "crescendo" but with just complexity (no. Voices etc)
- What is love?
October 20
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- File:Old sculpture.jpg
- Interesting Moral/Ethics Money Question
- benefit concerts for Pacific islands earthquake clean-up efforts
- Brades Cockatoo Axe
- Academic Residency
- Image location?
- Japanese presense in southeast asia: c1920s
- What was the first battle that firearms (small arms) was widely (or almost widely) used?
- Copyright on Norwegian stamps?
- mormons in the military
- Oisiu-Eiseu and the Tomb of the Unknowns
- Corporate vs Personal Income Tax
October 21
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- LORD OF THE FLIES QUESTION
- Anatomy of a sonnet
- Grapevine restraint
- Christianity In Nagaland-India
- Benjamin Franklin quote
- What is on most maps this massive landform (one of the largest of its type in the world) is dissected by a dashed imaginary line?
- does anyone write with two hands? (simultaneously, for speed)
- Literary device like a prolepsis.
- Why does Jane Austen (and other 19th century authors) use a letter followed by a series of hyphens in lieu of some names and places?
- Origin of the word "sweetheart"
- What is the man-made wonder of engineering that required so many workers to complete that a town was built just to accommodate them?
- What seperates two continents and has many names?
- What is one of the four largest cities within a familiar geographical shape found by a man with controversial religious beliefs?
- if gore won the election in 2000
- Year a bust (art) was made
- what's a word for something that's sneakily but cleverly pretending it's something it's not?
- No confidence in presidents?
- Mocking murderers - Can they receive a harsher punishment?
October 22
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- Running dogs of capitalism
- why is copyright set in the future
- Ethical VS Aesthetic Free will argument (author? text?)
- Why are Kathmandu and the Chatham Islands not on the same hour as the other time zones?
- What's the name of he phenomenon?
- Quote regarding Military Generals vs. Musicians
- Origin and explanation of common definitions of Atheism
- Oedipus the King (Sophocles)
- What consumers and audiences like and want?
- Who were the earliest aethiests, going back in history?
- correct income level of dominican republic?
- Travel time Bloomsbury to Southease railway station in the mid 1920s
October 23
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- Scholars Cited on Wikipedia
- How can fines be cheaper than parking?
- US (state sizes)
- British Princes and Princesses
- Command and control still used by the military despite being very outdated in management or business?
October 24
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- Jeffrey Dahmer and his homosexuality
- Six degrees of separation
- update on "I Love the Islands"
- Nancy Parkinson
- Why are rights part of deontological ethics?
- Jeff Bezos---Amazon---Seattle
- Historic stock prices
- Quality at the Centre
- which public school did James Jordan go to?
- The Best Of Mrs Beeton's Kitchen Garden
October 25
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- colonies in Bangladesh
- Thought exercise: Banning Divorce in California
- the belief that human ancestors were giants
- Case/event question relating to international child abduction.
- Evolution and the Lemon test
- Russia Fresh Water
- Electors and the US Electoral College
- Active Roman Catholic cathedrals
- Ethics of Cocaine use.
- Is the Child Support Agency ( CSA) UK Unconstitutional and,therefore, illegal?
October 26
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- Jesus and Muhammed
- Do people of other religions than christianity use their god to swear as commonly?
- Clock Question
- How TALL was King George IV ?
- Galeros
- UK House of Commons - Opposition Day Motions
- Governor-General of the United Kingdom
- DOCTOR WHO QUESTION
October 27
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- Founder of Wikipedia
- Justices of the UK Supreme Court
- Rod Blagojevich gag order?
- SABAM and the freedom of panorama
- Identify this book
- MIT's budget
- Napoleon's relative
- Washington, D.C.
October 28
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- Poor people as an engine of economy
- Origin of Surname "Karasarlidis"
- Subramaniam v. Public Prosecutor
- Time signatures, why do some feel more natural (to me) than others?
- Top Ten Controversies in US History?
- Unaware Prophesied Messiahs, Saviors, Redeemers, etc
- Province of Punjab, Pakistan
- samurai really cut peasants?
- Can a psychopath know right from wrong?
- USA airplane crash records from the 1950s
- Recent article on loss of sense of self following brain injury
- memorial to Flight 990
- why isn't "atleast" one word?
- Vatican City and the freedom of panorama
- Investing in precious metals
- Challenge to the Reader novels
October 29
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- comparison and contrast on multiculturalism in USA and multiculturalism in Canada
- final total from benefit concerts
- Th. Roosevelt and John Davis Long - conflicting versions
- Need names of specific theories or names at play here
- Israel and the swastika
- Non-Black, Asian, Hispanic ethnic minority American literature
October 30
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- does everyone hear the days music while going to sleep
- The Sweet Trinity
- Corporate Finance Question
- 16th century units of length in Venice
- Docetism
- Contemporary books
- color or non-standard black peoples marry whites
- Art print wanted
- Did Marx show high regard for India's past?
- Sainthood of Edward the Martyr
October 31
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