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Is there a word to describe a highly desirable cursed treasure?

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What is the lexical class of the word 'worth' when used in a sentence like “Is this apple worth $3?”

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What is the most realistic estimate for how far the Vikings could have explored the western hemisphere?

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“La fée verte”: Is Absinthe hallucinogenic?

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Do graduates from private secondary schools perform better in college than graduates from public schools?

education asked Apr 6 '11 at 22:29
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What short story has an old programmer about to lose his job who triggers a Trojan Horse that only he can fix?

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Has it been mathematicaly determined that the Voynich Manuscript is not gibberish?

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Eliminating Magic Numbers: When is it time to say “No”?

coding-standards refactoring maintainability coding-horror asked Mar 9 '11 at 16:30
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Can you unlock a car using a cell phone?

cars mobile-phones asked Apr 5 '11 at 14:14
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What is the adjectival form of “nemesis”?

single-word-requests adjectives asked Mar 2 '11 at 18:35
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If you could pose a question to a Turing test candidate, what would it be?
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Is there any verifiable historical and/or scientific evidence that Jesus lived?
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Word meaning “to make more efficient”?
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Is it acceptable to use “especially” at the beginning of a sentence?
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Were people shorter in the middle ages?
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Do cats and dogs have saliva that has antibacterial or antiseptic properties?
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Am I contagious before I'm symptomatic?
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Dealing with profanity in source code
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What is the reason that the moon appears larger on the horizon?
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Can men mentally rotate images better than women?
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Find an integer not among four billion given ones
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Interesting interview question
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Are humans the only species that hunt down competitors, denies and destroys food for others?
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Word for a person with a negative attitude
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Why is this program erroneously rejected by three C++ compilers?
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What would a cult member call a non-believer?
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Differences between slang words for breasts
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Is there a word or phrase for the feeling you get after looking at a word for too long?
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“Toilet”, “lavatory” or “loo” for polite society
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How to use state pattern correctly?
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What distribution do you get from this broken random shuffle?
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Color schemes generation - theory and algorithms
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Is it wrong to say “cook a cake”?
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Is cancer a man-made disease?
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Is the fertility rate of women who work over 2 children anywhere in the world?
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Do organisms have electromagnetic fields?
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What's the opposite word for “sin”?
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What programming languages should every computer science student be taught?
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How was programming done 20 years ago?
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Were there any Jews among the Nazi top people?
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