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Recent studies on Native American languages point towards an alarming

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26 Jun 2018, 20:06

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In the past decade, rapid technological progress and a greater demand

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28 Oct 2018, 08:51

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E. M. Forster is an Edwardian in point of time, and he is equally so i

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01 Aug 2023, 10:23

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02 Aug 2023, 23:02

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Oppression has been no less fatal to the Indian than to the Negro race

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17 Sep 2015, 09:46

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Before the 1920s, there was a long-standing debate about the nebulae

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09 May 2019, 07:29

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05 Aug 2023, 13:14

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No one thing over which we have control exerts so marked an influence

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30 Mar 2022, 07:30

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06 Aug 2023, 06:07

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The earliest histories of the Russian ballet were written in the 18th

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10 Aug 2023, 20:00

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Farming practices in the United States have changed since the days of

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16 Apr 2020, 09:10

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19 Aug 2023, 03:15

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Should taxpayers pay to read the results of public funded research or

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04 Jun 2018, 10:10

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When they first arrived in America as slaves in the 1600s, Africans jo

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09 Aug 2009, 10:40

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The English who in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries inhabited

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05 Apr 2019, 09:41

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03 Sep 2023, 01:44

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On the surface, the conquest of the Aztec empire by Herman Cortes is o

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12 Feb 2017, 04:50

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Until recently astronomers have been puzzled by the fate of red giant

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10 Feb 2019, 03:28

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Until recently most astronomers believed that the space between the

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16 Jan 2008, 22:39

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04 Oct 2023, 12:59

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In recent years much attention has been paid to distilling those facto

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28 Oct 2012, 11:21

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Existentialism is a term applied to the work of certain late 19th- and

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02 Nov 2017, 20:26

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09 Oct 2023, 07:26

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But man is not destined to vanish. He can be killed, but he

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01 Oct 2010, 04:44

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15 Oct 2023, 21:03

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Even as the number of females processed through juvenile courts climbs

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18 Feb 2021, 23:30

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28 Oct 2023, 05:09

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Political ideals must be based upon ideals for the individual life. Th

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31 Oct 2018, 11:45

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The coffeehouse was central to the dissemination of ideas in eighteent

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30 Aug 2023, 07:00

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There is widespread belief that the emergence of giant industries has

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The United States Supreme Court has not always resolved legal issues o

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02 Aug 2019, 10:53

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Diseases associated with aging in women are difficult to correlate exp

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04 Apr 2020, 09:14

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The Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which measures the dollar value of f

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30 Sep 2013, 21:46

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M. Norton Wise's examination of the calorimeter, a machine invented in

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21 Sep 2019, 07:12

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26 Nov 2023, 15:17

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Research has discovered that lucid dreamers

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The controversial Canadian media intellectual Marshall McLuhan first b

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20 Nov 2017, 05:14

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It was once believed that the brain was independent of meta

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23 Aug 2013, 13:10

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Anthropologists who study orangutans, distant cousins of the human

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27 May 2012, 10:33

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E-cigarettes or electronic cigarettes are battery-operated devices in

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28 Feb 2022, 08:00

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The classical realist theory of international relations has long domin

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17 Jun 2018, 13:34

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23 Dec 2023, 04:08

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In the year 1885, the Eiffel firm, which was named after the French

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02 Jul 2018, 11:07

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Those scholars who are engaged in the attempt to explain human experie

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02 Sep 2023, 08:00

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04 Jan 2024, 10:55

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The impressionist painters expressly disavowed any interest in philoso

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23 Jan 2010, 08:25

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According to Susan Reverby's Ordered to Care, the most salient fact

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17 Sep 2023, 10:45

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Until recently, nearly everyone thought of intelligence as a single en

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29 Jun 2008, 00:06

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18 Jan 2024, 07:52

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Despite the emergence of a trend favoring flatter organization of

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09 Dec 2019, 21:18

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18 Jan 2024, 23:56

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My objective is to analyze certain forms of knowledge, not in terms of

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08 Feb 2019, 18:24

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Before Laura Gilpin (1891-1979), few women in the history of photograp

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08 Feb 2019, 20:38

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A fake can be defined as an artwork intended to deceive. The motives

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30 Jun 2020, 10:09

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22 Jan 2024, 07:59

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Information is the essence of universe and means distinction between t

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22 Apr 2018, 09:35

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01 Feb 2024, 00:30

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Feminism is an essentially pluralist movement. Early historians of the

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25 Mar 2017, 02:23

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04 Feb 2024, 07:07

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The debt crisis affecting many developing countries has had three caus

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28 Oct 2012, 11:25

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09 Feb 2024, 22:23

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In the eighteenth century, Japan’s feudal overlords, from th

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08 May 2010, 00:26

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16 Feb 2024, 04:58

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Commonplace items sometimes play surprising roles in world

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20 Oct 2010, 04:14

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17 Feb 2024, 03:11

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The article Shock therapy for mental patients will be reviewed continu

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03 Feb 2017, 06:05

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21 Feb 2024, 04:49

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The great white shark is considered to be an apex predator,

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26 Mar 2013, 14:18

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21 Feb 2024, 05:01

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Geologists Harris and Gass hypothesized that the Red Sea rift develope

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30 Sep 2020, 03:05

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23 Feb 2024, 00:31

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Should we really care for the greatest actors of the past could we hav

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03 Feb 2017, 05:39

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