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Crows, herring gulls, and sparrows all live on the island of Firsten.
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First-time computer buyers buying PXC home computers
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The violent crime rate (number of violent crimes per 1,000 residents)
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Background information: This year, each film submitted to the Barbizon
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Comparative historian Marc Ferro claims that the largest discrepancy i
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Scientists are growing increasingly concerned that coral, wh
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Historically, sociologists have presumed that people will at
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Theorists are divided about the cause of the Permian mass extinctions.
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Many scholars consider Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past
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The determination of the age of KNM-ER 1470, a humanoid skull, would a
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Lousia May Alcotts Little Women opens to a common scenariothe women
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Long regarded as a necessary evil, the royal mistress is a classic
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