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When interviewing witnesses to a crime, police interviewers seek to

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The decline of the United States smokestack industries reflected in th

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09 Mar 2023, 08:00

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Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (18531926) a Dutch physicist discovered superc

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09 Mar 2023, 08:00

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31 Aug 2023, 12:49

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In a 1978 lecture titled The Detective Story, Jorge Luis Borges obse

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09 Mar 2023, 21:00

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21 Apr 2025, 22:11

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It might reasonably have been expected that the adoption of cooking by

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10 Mar 2023, 07:00

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14 Jun 2025, 12:09

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By the late 1920's advertising in the United States had acquired the

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10 Mar 2023, 08:00

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In 1975, tens of thousands of people were evacuated from Haicheng, in

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10 Mar 2023, 08:00

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26 Jun 2025, 09:27

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The United States Supreme Courts 1948 ruling in Shelley v. Kraemer fa

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12 Mar 2023, 20:00

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14 Apr 2024, 04:12

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Through years of excavations and careful analysis of her finds around

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13 Mar 2023, 06:00

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24 Jul 2025, 00:38

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Music does not always gain by association with words. Like images, wor

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13 Mar 2023, 20:00

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13 Oct 2023, 07:52

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According to the generally accepted theory of plate tectonics, the ear

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14 Mar 2023, 06:30

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16 Aug 2024, 07:08

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Along with Egypt and Sumer, the third major early Bronze Age civilizat

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14 Mar 2023, 20:00

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07 Feb 2026, 04:36

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Film scholar David Bordwell refers to the years 1917-1960 as the class

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15 Mar 2023, 07:30

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17 Apr 2024, 08:14

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The legal system rests on the assumption that people use conscious del

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15 Mar 2023, 20:30

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25 Nov 2023, 03:49

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Physicists posit that at first our universe was infmitesimally small a

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16 Mar 2023, 07:30

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07 Jun 2025, 10:07

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Most writings on the subject of motion pictures, including those scrut

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16 Mar 2023, 20:30

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30 Apr 2024, 05:52

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The rise of the Massive Online Open Course, or MOOC, has generated

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17 Mar 2023, 05:00

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04 Jul 2024, 06:41

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A recent worldwide decline of ocean fishery stocks has stimulated rapi

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17 Mar 2023, 07:30

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02 Jun 2025, 06:24

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Criminal courts frequently rely on accomplice witnesses (witnesses who

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19 Mar 2023, 20:30

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11 Jun 2025, 06:19

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Many commentators have described the blues musician of the United Stat

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20 Mar 2023, 07:30

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28 Dec 2024, 14:00

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The path a historical novelist has to tread is clearly beset by danger

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20 Mar 2023, 20:30

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For nearly a century after the discovery in the 1880s that a bacterium

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21 Mar 2023, 07:00

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21 Sep 2025, 11:08

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In the absence of international statutes prohibiting nations from caus

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21 Mar 2023, 20:30

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25 Apr 2024, 04:38

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In exhibiting works of art-whether in a gallery, a cinema, or anywhere

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22 Mar 2023, 07:00

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23 Nov 2023, 14:23

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22 Mar 2023, 12:03

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22 Mar 2023, 23:59

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With rapidly expanding populations, growing industrial development, an

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25 Dec 2025, 09:55

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27 Dec 2025, 09:26

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Competition to make computer chips smaller and, consequently, faster

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23 Mar 2023, 07:00

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17 Dec 2024, 09:56

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In 1940, Benjamin Lee Whorf seduced a whole generation into believing

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23 Mar 2023, 20:30

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05 Mar 2025, 05:25

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A major problem facing industrial societies is their exponentially inc

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24 Mar 2023, 07:00

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23 Aug 2025, 10:18

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At the atomic scale, all matter exhibits properties commonly associate

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24 Mar 2023, 11:29

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31 Oct 2023, 10:26

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Native American stories often feature a character called the trickster

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01 Jan 2026, 11:52

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01 Jan 2026, 12:02

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In her 1996 history of plagiarism in English Renaissance drama, Laura

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27 Mar 2023, 07:00

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30 Nov 2024, 14:09

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The use of criminal sanctions against corporations is well established

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27 Mar 2023, 20:00

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20 Aug 2025, 21:39

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Historians of medieval marriage practices ascribe particular significa

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25 Sep 2024, 10:58

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27 Apr 2026, 06:41

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Nontraditional black women filmmakers share with the broader community

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28 Mar 2023, 20:00

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26 Jun 2025, 07:43

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To some scholars, the European baroque is not merely an aesthetic styl

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29 Mar 2023, 07:00

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19 Sep 2025, 23:46

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Until recently, many biologists believed that invertebrate schools w

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29 Mar 2023, 20:00

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14 Nov 2024, 16:29

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Many of us can conceive of penalties that seem disproportionate to the

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30 Mar 2023, 07:00

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14 Jan 2025, 02:32

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Despite the great differences among the cultures from which we spring,

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30 Mar 2023, 20:00

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05 Jun 2025, 22:46

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In the past, students of Renaissance womens education extolled the un

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31 Mar 2023, 07:00

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21 Jun 2025, 03:58

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Naturalists have long studied the ability of North American forest bir

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02 Apr 2023, 20:00

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02 Sep 2024, 12:19

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Much of mainstream thinking concerning juvenile delinquency in Canada

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03 Apr 2023, 07:00

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13 Sep 2023, 12:06

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Robin D. G. Kelley's book Hammer and Hoe explores the history of commu

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03 Apr 2023, 20:00

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16 Feb 2025, 03:34

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Darwin's conception of early prehistoric humans as confident, clever

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04 Apr 2023, 07:00

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15 Dec 2024, 08:09

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Historian Philippe Ariès claimed that in medieval Europe childhood was

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09 Sep 2025, 09:33

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25 Dec 2025, 09:46

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Increases in the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other trace gases

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05 Apr 2023, 07:00

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18 Dec 2023, 00:18

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There are two especially influential interpretations of nineteenth

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05 Apr 2023, 20:00

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27 Jun 2025, 02:24

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Richard L. Jacksons most recent book, Black Writers in Latin America,

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06 Apr 2023, 07:00

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25 Jun 2025, 00:22

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Among common errors still persisting in the minds of educated people,

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06 Apr 2023, 20:00

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16 Aug 2023, 11:58

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The Rev. Rose Fuller Whistler, in his Annals of an English Family (188

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07 Apr 2023, 07:00

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