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Though sucking zinc lozenges has been promoted as a treatment for the
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1897
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Tourists have long complained that hotel accommodations in Midville ar
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Over the last 150 years, large stretches of salmon habitat have been e
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The feminists of revolutionary France were not the only persons hoping
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The following passage is an excerpt from The Role of the Father in Ch
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1906
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15 Oct 2023, 06:29
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In Kantovia, physicians income comes from insurance companies, which
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1909
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09 May 2022, 12:18
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Surveys in Domorica indicate that only 10% of Domoricans in their twen
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Smithtown Universitys fund-raisers succeeded in getting donations fro
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1910
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NickOP
01 May 2022, 11:14
Given an experiment set-up, each participant
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1910
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Characterized as half zebra and half horse, the quagga sounds like a m
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1912
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Some readers categorize Maxine Hong Kingston as a great Asian-American
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1918
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17 Dec 2022, 05:15
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The reason much refrigerated food spoils is that it ends up out of sig
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1918
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22 Nov 2021, 11:19
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Early in the twentieth century, Lake Konfa became very polluted. Recen
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Archaeologists in Michigan have excavated a Native American camp near
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1922
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15 May 2022, 21:11
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Motorcycle-safety courses, offered by a number of organizations, teach
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1927
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20 Aug 2023, 08:50
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For most people, the left half of the brain controls linguistic capabi
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1927
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05 May 2022, 22:43
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Advertisement: The world’s best coffee beans come from Colombia. The
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1928
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21 Sep 2021, 10:15
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Because adult iguanas on Plazos Island are much smaller than adult i
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1929
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23 Jul 2021, 09:21
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In the 1920s, surveys of factory workers who painted watch dials with
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1937
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19 Aug 2021, 08:02
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Sales of telephones have increased dramatically over the last year. In
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1945
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21 Sep 2022, 05:09
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Critic: Emily Dickinson's poetry demonstrates that meaning cannot resi
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1947
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Carcass
24 Nov 2021, 10:20
Technically a given category of insurance policy is underpriced if,
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1949
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13 Nov 2021, 04:13
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A multinational electricity conglomerate, in its 2004 annual report, d
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1951
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18 Nov 2021, 00:38
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Most household appliances use electricity only when in use. Many micro
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1952
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15 Aug 2024, 14:15
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Although social learning (the acquisition of specific behaviors by obs
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1952
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fajayi
28 Feb 2024, 19:14
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Natural selection is an immensely powerful yet beautifully simple theo
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Source: The Princeton Review
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1955
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Carcass
05 Apr 2024, 10:31
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Democratic institutions are devices for reconciling social order wit
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1956
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Taran
09 Jan 2022, 19:09
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Cary is, at best, able to write poems of average quality. The most for
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1960
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VerbalBot
12 Jun 2024, 20:00
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Hardin argued that grazing land held in common (that is, open to any u
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1962
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Sammiesax1
03 Feb 2022, 22:11
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The American Revolution arose partly in response to British general se
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1965
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rx10
31 May 2021, 00:46
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A pioneering figure in modern sociology, French social theorist Emile
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1966
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Carcass
23 Apr 2024, 02:07
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In general, jobs are harder to get in times of economic recession beca
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1966
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ighuma
30 Jul 2022, 00:51
3
Most of Western music since the Renaissance has been based on a seven-
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GeminiHeat
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1966
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IshanPathak
30 Dec 2021, 11:51
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Since smoking-related illnesses are a serious health problem in Normar
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1967
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GeminiHeat
22 Apr 2022, 08:31
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Whenever a major airplane accident occurs, there is a dramatic increas
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1972
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Carcass
28 Nov 2021, 09:27
1
Ever-present in Jamaican folklore and storytelling is the character of
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1974
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Carcass
27 Dec 2022, 05:00
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Friedrich Nietzsches Twilight of the Idols expanded on the problem of
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Medium Reading
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Source: The Princeton Review
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1981
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Carcass
13 Dec 2022, 05:00
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The view has prevailed for the better part of the twentieth century th
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1984
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Carcass
07 Nov 2022, 23:51
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A new technique for extracting residues of oil from existing oil wells
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GeminiHeat
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1988
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rx10
16 Nov 2021, 08:50
3
Most of the world's supply of uranium currently comes from the mines.
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1989
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Carcass
06 May 2022, 00:52
At the beginning of 1994, Congress enacted a 10% increase in
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1989
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Carcass
06 Dec 2020, 14:54
When people evade income taxes by not declaring taxable income, a vici
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1990
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Carcass
21 Sep 2021, 10:13
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In the past, traditional, 2-D films made by Hollywood studios have bee
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1993
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GeminiHeat
29 Mar 2022, 01:03
2
Muscular strength is a limited resource, and athletic techniques help
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GeminiHeat
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1993
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Carcass
06 May 2021, 01:45
2
Environmental organizations want to preserve the land surrounding the
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1994
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Carcass
28 Sep 2022, 01:52
Delta products, Inc., has recently switched at least partly from older
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1996
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Carcass
14 Dec 2022, 05:36
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Comparative historian Marc Ferro claims that the largest discrepancy i
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1998
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Carcass
12 Dec 2022, 05:45
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The population of Megacity, a sprawling metropolis in Remsland, has gr
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1999
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VerbalBot
19 Jan 2024, 22:54
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Economist: On average, the emergency treatment for an elderly person
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2001
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krpajedrez
17 May 2022, 20:42
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Astronomer: Observations of the Shoemaker-Levi comet on its collision
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2002
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Carcass
27 Jul 2022, 14:00
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