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April 1
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Suzani textiles
Main Industries In China's Economy For 2000
Skinning a cat
Celibacy of the catholic priests
Manorial dues
Is an April Fool Joke not an April Fool joke if it is real
God speaking to man... According to the Bible?
History of reporter's privilege
Madonnina of the Streets by Roberto Ferruzzi (1854-1934)
Well Known islamic universities in Pakistan and South Asia
List
Highest percentage of Orthodox Christians in the US
has anyone seriously tried deflation?
Taoist/Buddhist prayer?
How Find A Persons E-Mail Address
Deposed Monarchs in Britain
April 2
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The first woman cabinet minister in South Africa?
UK and France elections political parties and regional councils in France
Catholic Württemberg
Linguistic fluency of cardinals and popes
Fascists in Football.
federal corruption laws
how did they know where the little stones in the mosaics go?
How many people take Conservapedia seriously?
April 3
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why do Asians like to sleep in libraries? (or why don't other races?)
Paul Revere's warning that "The regulars are out"!
Sons of Chongzhen Emperor
International Trade
system for depiction of color in black and white printing
Philosophy of science - justification of evidence based belief system
Recent textual finds
Steam locomotive ID
April 4
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International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and Off-Shore Tax Havens
Jeremy Nicholson Negro Achievement Award
US citizen
Austin, Texas
Three Wise Men
dry media and liquid media definitions and lists of both
Discount bank (finance)
Ethics, law, female French philosopher
April 5
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Morals, ethics, and values in the Church of Scientology
What is the name of this propaganda technique
Jewish states
April 6
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The Book of Mormon and Mormonism
Psychological Affirmations
Chevron company
double unilineal kinship system with localised patrilineages
has a company ever ended up owning itself?
April 7
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Why don't I EVER hear of soldiers bringing women home from Iraq and Afghanistan?
Sports affiliation with political parties
PATRICK BRONTE
How to formally request a loan
Gold Prices
Pyongyang handicap ban
April 8
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What was the Book ?
Historiae Atlantis non Platonis
Sexual attraction: buttocks vs. feet
antisemitism
Jews in Bangladesh
What's the difference between these church officials?
Can a non-Muslim observe Ramadan?
April 9
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Films / games of what would happen in a new Korean War?
Question regarding the administration of Ajmer Subah during the reign of Akbar?
Left wing Alternative parties Spain Portugal Italy Belgium Netherlands
hitler vs stalin
North Korea's justification
April 10
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Countries without a government
Common law vs. civil law
what did Daladier have to do with Poincaré in 1928?
Words formed by arrangement of objects
Working in North Korea
La G.D.A.C.F. - Rome, 1962
Selling old library books
Overlook, Portland, Oregon aka Swan Island
International Resistance Day
Gym memberships
did immigrants to the united states ever have to renounce their previous citizenship?
Nevada Corporation Privacy
clearing up some issues
Religions with an evil creator
Self
April 11
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Mariam's bedroom
Patron Saint of Belgium; existence and coherent identity of Belgium before 1830
trying to remember name of a 19th century mystic
British term
The Queen of Denmark wants parts of Scotland back
about find the originals of an old book Mentioned in Wikipedia
April 12
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Anonymous lawyers in lawsuits or copyright complaints
Culture and sport
EEZ for St Pierre et Miquelon
murder
Sunday School
Mary Antin's mother
What happened to Sergeant William Stott?
POTUS eligible
Earliest war photography
Condolence gift for someone from Bangalore India
How Do I Find A Free Reverese E-mail Site
April 13
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A couple of questions about the Crusades
Tu'i Malila
Hebrew slang Mizrahi Jew
April 14
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Lil Bub and Colonel Meow
Left handers in the North of England, early 20th C
Airline food and cultural sensitivies
how is effectiveness of a questionnaire is measured
Israeli Jews and the Holocaust
April 15
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microeconomics solution to private suit problem of guantanamo
Flat tax question
Photos
April 16
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Funerals
Norwegian Saint Harald
Contemporary celebrations of Independence Day
Graduate vs post-graduate
DRC olympic/paralympic delegation: asylum
North Korea
Nazi officer angled cap in photos
Owls
Crucifixion in late imperial Rome
April 17
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ethnic minorities supporting right-wing parties
I am mixing up two myths about Aphrodite: please help:?
Countries With Forced Organ Donation
Parable vs. fable
Great Lakes sustainability
April 18
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Why do some middle-Easterners not consider themself being white
Walnut Grove Shelby Farms PD
When did the Middle Ages end?
Nominations by the President-elect of the United States
Rejection of the label "Feudalism"
Na nā akua e hoʻolaʻa i keia pae ʻāina nei!
France Election Question
Question about 23rd century
Stephen Harper anti-Islam
Aliyah
Nigeria population
Leadership
April 19
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Kilmanton or Kilmainham Ireland
Age of Enlightenment and Renaissance
Mary Fairchild
Where did the following originate:
Sherlock, Moriarty and breaches in insider trading laws
April 20
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The two ring gambit.
Tel Aviv Mizrahi and Sephardi Jew neighbourhoods and other cities
State‐owned casini
witchcraft
Two questions regarding Influential Imams in non-muslim countries
country voting patterns
Any demographies of counter-strike players or servers?
NNDB and copyright
April 21
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Hispanic white people
Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Refusal of Service
Ventnor Commies - PKD?
Is Buddhist practice some kind of alternative psychology?
Non-citizenship
Chronology of Late Medieval events - House of Luxembourg
April 22
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How is Commanders and leaders in template:Infobox military conflict defined?
Presidential Cycling
Finding a US Congress passed law from 1872
Elizabeth II
The Most Beautiful Things List - Authors
19 regional councillors in France MRC and candidates
Euro
Samizdat in the Russian gulags
April 23
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Fishing in the Maldives
benefitting the bombing victims
Fox farming - what species?
how good is it to be king?
April 24
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Federal Reserve
Hard drugs
HELP IDENTIFYING PIECE OF ANTIQUE GOLD JEWELRY (POSSIBLY GEORGIAN ERA)
A "new" type of discrimination?
World War II and Hitler
Foreskin Restoration
Matron of honor - Catholic marriage
April 25
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Active societies promulgating Jakob Lorber's work
Impact of shared government services on balance of trade
is this guy an idiot?
April 26
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Living people associated with Nazi Germany
Abolition of slavery in Illinois
florence italy, San Miniato cemetery, Maria Grazia Colella and Mario Mazzone, died in 1944 and 1945 story
Christopher Columbus's second trip
United States Exploring Expedition today
Searching for 3 books
April 27
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Soviet poster
Literary technique for "hoping the reader isn't fully aware"?
Guru Nanak
French quotation about balls
Sources as to common age of marriage at the time of Muhammad?
Opposite of hasty generalization
Rio pact
April 28
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Royal converts to Protestantism
April 29
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50 states book
No Nobel nominations?
website that show differences between Ultra-Orthodox, Hasidic, Modern Orthodox, Conservative and Reform Jews
Which city has the largest Bangladeshi Canadians, Arab Canadians, Iranian Canadians, Afghani Canadians and Turk Canadians?
ISAF
Arts: Mauricio García Vega, Prints for sale?
Request for help in defeating vandalism of Wiki page
Book banning in Nazi Germany
Ranking of MIT Mathematics Department
Social dancing...
Scotland/Northern Ireland
What is oldest age a person can be adopted foster parent in Russia or Finland?
Sailing
Session times of state parliaments
April 30
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Refunds for defective goods
How did America become so much more powerful than Canada?
What coat of arms is this please?
The right to use public roads
interest in pawn
World War 1 vs 2
Weekly news magazines
Distribution