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January 1
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- Why Buddhism no more in India?
- Parmailitaries killing each other during "The Troubles" in Northern Ireland
- What's the oldest patriotic song in the world?
- Solomon and the baby
January 2
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- U.S. law and order
- Cultural structure of social media communities
- Essex man
- The Questions of King Milinda
- The accuracy of the first world map ever!
January 3
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- troops volunteered when they enlisted for Vietnam
- Cultural upheaval
- Do you know about MCLR, and how MCLR is different from the base rate?
- Alternatives to AFF
- Ingersoll on Moses
- US constitutional definition of treason - "declaring war on the US"?
January 4
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- Did anyone ever add anachronistic KJV-style verse numbers to pre-verse manuscripts?
- 4th January
- The Pledge of Allegiance
- Why UK wanted to protect Poland back then?
- Elections and very poor turnout
- Homer, Iliad
January 5
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- 1881 US and UK political cartoons
- Prisoner's dilemma with countries
- British demographics
- Presiding Officer of the United States Senate
- Nuclear option
- How did ethical eating become non-religious?
January 6
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January 7
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- Office clothings and skin problems
- Ranking literature
- Restricting access to contraception and abortion
- E. Linde
January 8
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January 9
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- 1901 regular session journal for Hawaii Senate
- Religious question
- What happened to Union garrisons stationed in the cotton states at the outbreak of the US Civil War?
- Razing Fort McHenry in the Battle of Baltimore - what did it hope to achieve?
- Radio
- Outsiders looking at medieval and early modern Europe
January 10
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- Who built Cuba's Granma boat?
- Someone (not sure if the same) one is removing religions out of historical people's tool box (and one famous person)
- Why is marriage regulated by the government?
- Syracusia
- New York Times History
- Steamship Asia
January 11
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- Nuclear option
- Taiwanese flag banned/censored in Mainland China?
- Existence of "Mont Terri Castle" in Switzerland, no source found
January 12
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- global warming, Pope Francis, First Things
- Catholic believe: did God create EVERYTHING
- What is PayPal?
January 13
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January 14
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January 15
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- First purpose-built/dedicated courthouse
- Tanks, instead of men, in the front-line of Normandy landings?
- US Supreme Court
- Source for Helen Suzman quote
January 16
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- Global Inequality and the Golden Billion
- Did a general really believe that if the Cold War blocs had 2 survivors & 1 then the side with 2 wins?
- Renewable Heat Incentive scandal
- Declarations of independence prior to July 4 1776
January 17
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- Has anybody done anything except stand on the moon? Kneel, sit, lay?
- Can tankers really take off from aircraft carriers?
- Why (at usa presidential election) you need 50%+1 electoral votes to win the election by usual means, but you dont need 50%+1 population votes to be the winner of some state?
- Wall Street and Bay Street counterparts
- Why did doctors visit patients' houses?
January 18
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January 19
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 19
- Anti Muslim hate crimes that have turned out to be fake
- Risshū (Buddhism)
- Imperial Household Law
- More than one President
- Inauguration Day
- Which latitude and longitude crosses the most countries in the world?
- What's the best place to read 50% probability-bad Trump scenarios, 10%, 1% and so on written by experts?
- Question on policies and removing a page
- What do you call the symmetrical folds around the mouth ion this face?
- Is it really accurate to describe Trump as fascist?
January 20
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- When did the tanks arrive?
- When does the handover happen?
- Environmental policies of Hitler
- noon
- Is gender bias a kind of cognitive bias?
- YAL
- Is social class determined by income level or standard of living?
- Sinjar, Yazidis, U.S. intervention
- 1lib1ref
- Orthodox Jewish hat boxes
January 21
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- Judge cartoon
- How did food surplus create class division?
- Bibliography book
- Rory of the Hills
- Squares for protesting
January 22
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- In what era was the developed world's imports from the developing the highest percent of the latter's GDP?
- Monotheism and Plato
- Use of genealogy books among persons of Korean descent in North America
January 23
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- What are the Guidelines for Government Classification in Wikipedia?
- Official wiki-social-media
- "Old way of politics"?
- UK elections - winning multiple seats
January 24
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- Why call country communist?
- Dependency/Territory? Any difference?
- How did people with gluten sensitivities survive in the Middle Ages?
- Do Canadians ever come to the United States illegally?
January 25
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- Scotland
- Executive orders
- Waterboarding and diminishing returns
- Polygamy
- American murderers fleeing to Canada to avoid the death penalty
- International income inequality
- Car makers in Canada and the US and Mexico
- Fiction without conflict
- No civilian aviation over the USA
- Where should we put a record of Trump's actions in office?
January 26
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- How many of these orders seem likely to happen?
- US Secretary of State
- US judicial system
- Introduction to Economics
- Ideology
- Which religious group has the longest religious text? Longest canon?
- H. G. Wells
January 27
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- Defunct holidays
- Trying to recall shorty story/novella about buying land
- Social Science Quarterly
- The South Pacific Times
- Psychological experiments similar to Stanford prison experiment or Milgram experiment
- Taxation as theft
- Internal Autonomy Day
January 28
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- Unemployment benefits
- Asia
- Are there border markers on the Great Lakes at the US-Canada border?
- Actual airspace defence in the U.S., and other western countries
- Cadences
January 29
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