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How was law enforcement handled in large US cities before professional police?
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Which European Languages are not Indo-European?
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When was Silver ever more valuable than Gold?
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const int *p vs. int const *p - Is const after the type acceptable?
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When should I use string_view in an interface?
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Were there ever actual organizations of pirates?
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Prevalence of Underwater Panther
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What were the criteria for class ranking at West Point prior to the Civil War?
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Revision control locking: Is the jury still out?
version-control
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stackoverflow.com
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Pancakes: Avoiding the "spider batch"
oil
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Is there a way to tell git to only include certain files instead of ignoring certain files?
stackoverflow.com
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My wife wants a homosexual child
parenting.stackexchange.com
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What real life bad habits has programming given you?
stackoverflow.com
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Did Bill Gates steal the GUI concept from Steve Jobs?
history.stackexchange.com
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'static const' vs. '#define'
stackoverflow.com
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"This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone." Why?
history.stackexchange.com
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Is there a historical precedent to the vaccine scare?
history.stackexchange.com
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Why did Columbus cross the mid-Atlantic instead of exploring from Greenland?
history.stackexchange.com
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Why Were Madagascar and New Zealand Discovered So Late?
history.stackexchange.com
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Did China ever consider a phonetic writing system?
history.stackexchange.com
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What is your best programmer joke?
stackoverflow.com
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Did protesters block metal detectors at Trump's Tulsa rally?
skeptics.stackexchange.com
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What is the error called when two letters are mistakenly swapped?
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Why raise so much fuss about the Skripal poisoning?
politics.stackexchange.com
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How did the authorities not find the speakeasy clubs during the prohibition?
history.stackexchange.com
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What and where are the stack and heap?
stackoverflow.com
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What is the use of a "~" tilde in URL?
stackoverflow.com
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Why didn't the Norsemen colonize North America?
history.stackexchange.com
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Why did North America economically prosper, and maintain stable government and South/Central America didn't?
history.stackexchange.com
81
Why, in the US, is Japanese brutality ignored compared with the Nazi brutality in WW2?
history.stackexchange.com
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Why are many African-Americans in Mississippi concentrated in the northwestern area?
history.stackexchange.com
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What does the US have to gain by other countries not being socialist or communist?
politics.stackexchange.com
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Make: how to continue after a command fails?
stackoverflow.com
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What do Democrats have to gain, politically, by preventing Brett Kavanaugh's appointment to the Supreme Court?
politics.stackexchange.com
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Which European Languages are not Indo-European?
history.stackexchange.com
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Why do western monotheistic religions seem to be so full of conflict over dogma?
history.stackexchange.com
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Did medieval peasants work 150 days a year?
history.stackexchange.com
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Where did "cc" and "bcc" come from?
english.stackexchange.com
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Uses of unnamed namespace in C++
stackoverflow.com
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What is the significance behind "40 days" that often appears in the Bible?
history.stackexchange.com
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