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Archaeologists in Michigan have excavated a Native American camp near
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For most people, the left half of the brain controls linguistic capabi
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Advertisement: The world’s best coffee beans come from Colombia. The
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Friedrich Nietzsches Twilight of the Idols expanded on the problem of
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Most household appliances use electricity only when in use. Many micro
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Because adult iguanas on Plazos Island are much smaller than adult i
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1871
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Sales of telephones have increased dramatically over the last year. In
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Cary is, at best, able to write poems of average quality. The most for
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A multinational electricity conglomerate, in its 2004 annual report, d
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Typical silt loam soil is comprised of approximately 50 percent soil p
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Delta products, Inc., has recently switched at least partly from older
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1902
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Most of the world's supply of uranium currently comes from the mines.
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Democratic institutions are devices for reconciling social order wit
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1904
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Comparative historian Marc Ferro claims that the largest discrepancy i
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Environmental organizations want to preserve the land surrounding the
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1908
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At the beginning of 1994, Congress enacted a 10% increase in
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Whenever a major airplane accident occurs, there is a dramatic increas
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1911
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28 Nov 2021, 09:27
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Most of Western music since the Renaissance has been based on a seven-
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1912
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Hardin argued that grazing land held in common (that is, open to any u
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1913
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Since smoking-related illnesses are a serious health problem in Normar
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1914
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Most mental health disorders and cases of drug abuse tend to diminish
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1915
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10 Mar 2025, 14:06
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The American Revolution arose partly in response to British general se
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1915
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31 May 2021, 00:46
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In general, jobs are harder to get in times of economic recession beca
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1916
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30 Jul 2022, 00:51
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From 1980 to 1989, total consumption of fish in the country of Jurania
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1918
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05 May 2024, 06:15
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The ubiquity of jeans across social classes in modern America
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1919
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01 Aug 2025, 06:26
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A new technique for extracting residues of oil from existing oil wells
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1923
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16 Nov 2021, 08:50
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Muscular strength is a limited resource, and athletic techniques help
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1923
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06 May 2021, 01:45
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The population of Megacity, a sprawling metropolis in Remsland, has gr
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1930
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19 Jan 2024, 22:54
When people evade income taxes by not declaring taxable income, a vici
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1935
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21 Sep 2021, 10:13
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Astronomer: Observations of the Shoemaker-Levi comet on its collision
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1937
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27 Jul 2022, 14:00
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Economist: On average, the emergency treatment for an elderly person
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1943
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krpajedrez
17 May 2022, 20:42
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In the past, traditional, 2-D films made by Hollywood studios have bee
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1944
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29 Mar 2022, 01:03
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The restaurant business wastes more energy than any other industry in
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1951
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Carcass
31 May 2021, 04:28
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A medieval manuscript called L contains all eighteen extant tragedies
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1956
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30 Mar 2022, 03:36
Because postage rates are rising, Home Decorator magazine plans to max
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1957
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21 Sep 2021, 10:13
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To be considered for inclusion in the Barbizon Film Festival, a film
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1960
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18 Apr 2022, 09:23
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Traces of cultivated emmer wheat have been found among the earliest ag
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1961
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21 Aug 2022, 03:20
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Meteorologists say that if only they could design an accurate mathemat
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1968
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10 Apr 2022, 03:40
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Many buyers of fashion clothing are inclined to contribute to charitab
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1969
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02 Apr 2021, 09:19
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Critics of Mark Twains novel Huckleberry Finn view the protagonists
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1970
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12 Dec 2022, 05:15
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Company X manufactures swim wear and planned to launch a new line of
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1972
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14 Nov 2024, 02:37
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A new weight-loss drug causes the loss of body fat in all patients who
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1972
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21 Apr 2024, 03:40
Most large corporations in the United States were once run by individu
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1972
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21 Apr 2022, 03:37
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Kernland imposes a high tariff on the export of unprocessed cashew nut
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1978
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17 Jul 2022, 03:08
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The quality of unrefined olive oil is not actually defined in terms of
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1981
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28 Mar 2024, 07:52
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Two divergent definitions have dominated sociologists' discussions of
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1981
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Carcass
06 May 2022, 23:13
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Because the very subject matter of anthropology is so volatile, it’s n
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1982
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22 Feb 2022, 09:05
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