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100 Hardest and easiest questions for SC as of April 2026

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The increase in the number of American households viewing telecasts of

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09 Jun 2016, 13:03

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Responding to the public’s fascination with―and sometimes undue alarm

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A mixture of poems and short fiction, Jean Toomer’s Cane has been

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Art museums do not usually think of their collections as capital or co

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11 Jan 2019, 03:47

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Analysts blamed May's sluggish retail sales on unexciting merchandise

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24 Jun 2021, 12:58

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Among the objects found in the excavated temple were small terra-cotta

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16 Jul 2021, 00:46

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Although the Supreme Court ruled as long ago as 1880 that Blacks could

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18 Feb 2008, 18:49

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In 1776 Adam Smith wrote that it is young people who have “the contemp

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At the time of the Mexican agrarian revolution, the most radical facti

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26 Jul 2021, 08:35

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11 Mar 2025, 06:31

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The expected rise in the price of oil could be a serious impact to

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26 Jul 2020, 16:48

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With government funds no longer increasing and private philanthropy no

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21 May 2020, 15:28

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Photovoltaic cells are made of two thin layers of material, one of the

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26 Mar 2020, 06:14

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09 Jul 2011, 19:12

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07 Mar 2025, 07:45

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Not only did the systematic clearing of forests in the United States

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In the Battle of Roncevaux Pass in 778, the rearguard of the Frankish

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Those who maintain that technology is negatively rewiring our brains

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09 Aug 2015, 13:58

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As the etched lines on computer memory chips have become thinner and

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A survey by the National Council of Churches showed that in 1986 there

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From comic artist Mark Tatulli's witty observations about the American

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26 Dec 2018, 23:41

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27 Feb 2025, 13:32

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Financial analysts said they were surprised that despite higher inflat

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08 Jul 2021, 02:30

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Critics contend that the new missile is a weapon whose importance is

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Vercules

16 Nov 2018, 03:11

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26 Feb 2025, 08:33

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Although the lesser cornstalk borer is widely distributed, control of

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Although the manager agreed to a more flexible work schedule, he said

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Despite its attractiveness, investing abroad can still pose big risks

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Critics of the trend toward privately operated prisons consider correc

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20 May 2019, 03:53

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Corporations will soon be required to report to the government whether

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18 Dec 2018, 01:41

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Clark and Florence Wallace, a husband-and-wife medical team, worked st

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06 Nov 2018, 04:43

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Child prodigies are marked not so much by their skills but instead by

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30 Nov 2018, 10:11

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a late nineteenth-century feminist, called

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25 Jul 2018, 05:58

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Carpenters, dentists, sewing machine operators, needlepointers, piano

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02 Dec 2019, 04:51

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Like Darwin and his fruitful voyage on the Beagle Bankss trip

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Fame as well as fortune were his goals in life

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The ancient Inca city of Macchu Picchu, perched on a ridge in the Ande

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11 Sep 2010, 14:23

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Gusty westerly winds will continue to usher in a seasonably cool air m

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Byron possessed powers of observation that would have made him a great

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28 Sep 2007, 07:28

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Alaska regularly deposits some of its profits from the sale of oil int

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Aho, a Kiowa matriarch, held festivals in her home, they featured the

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rahulraao

21 Aug 2019, 04:17

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A majority of the international journalists surveyed view nuclear powe

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17 Sep 2013, 07:25

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17 Feb 2025, 19:52

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As the former chair of the planning board for 18 consecutive years and

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22 Aug 2019, 07:21

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They say a week in politics is a long time. Like politics, a

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Practicegmat

19 Sep 2011, 21:12

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13 Feb 2025, 05:09

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Diesel engines burn as much as 30 percent less fuel than that burned

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06 Jan 2019, 04:38

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12 Feb 2025, 04:28

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The market for recycled commodities like aluminum and other metals rem

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bmwhype2

21 Jun 2020, 07:54

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10 Feb 2025, 23:43

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After escaping from slavery, Harriet Tubman, who would go on to free

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19 Nov 2023, 22:16

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10 Feb 2025, 08:03

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After July, anyone disposing of or servicing refrigerators must captur

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leeye84

02 Dec 2018, 02:02

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09 Feb 2025, 04:53

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Not unlike many birds' nests, the Musgum people of Cameroon build huts

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03 May 2018, 00:08

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08 Feb 2025, 16:58

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06 Dec 2010, 09:23

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Seeming to be the only organization fighting for the rights of poor

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