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What would cause the peel of a lime to turn yellow?

storage lemon color lime asked Mar 10 at 9:21
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19 votes

When and why did "No man is an island" start being regarded as a poem?

poetry textual-history essays john-donne devotions-upon-emergent-occasions asked Mar 15 at 6:04
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16 votes

Is there still a Belgian vs. French distinction between "quatorze jours" and "quinze jours"?

belgique asked Feb 3 at 4:09
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16 votes

Chilli peppers in fifteenth-century India?

historical-context translation portuguese-literature the-lusiads luis-vaz-de-camoes asked Mar 28 at 8:22
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13 votes

Why is it considered inappropriate to say "une fois" at the end of a sentence when speaking to a Belgian?

belgique asked Feb 1 at 11:01
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11 votes

Using original pointer after realloc?

c pointers realloc asked Jul 29 '13 at 0:56
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11 votes

In Indian cooking, what does it mean when a recipe says "until the oil begins to leave the side of the pan"?

oil indian-cuisine asked Nov 14 '16 at 5:28
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9 votes

What is this plant? Is it edible?

herbs food-identification asked Oct 9 '20 at 0:07
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9 votes

Where in the New York City metro area does Ludwik live?

swimming-in-the-dark tomasz-jedrowski setting asked Apr 14 at 8:45
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9 votes

Origin and significance of E-I-E-I-O in the Old MacDonald song

meaning song-lyrics historical-context wording-choice nursery-rhyme asked Mar 4 at 8:24
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Pointer expressions: *ptr++, *++ptr and ++*ptr
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39
What is the equivalent in English of the French "pipotron", which refers to meaningless filler content that looks like it was written by a bot?
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33
Was Odysseus considered unfaithful to his wife in the Odyssey?
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32
Could you actually go around the world in 80 days?
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32
Since when has Shakespeare's "Scottish play" been considered unlucky?
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30
C char array initialization
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26
Word for low level noise among restless crowd, as sign of confusion or complaint?
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23
Was Paradise Lost the first major work of literature to give "sympathy for the devil"?
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22
No mayonnaise in Ireland?
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21
What does "the horse and buggy was not going the way of the horse and buggy" mean?
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19
What is the opposite of "early birds"
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19
What does the expression 'seven for seven thirty ' mean?
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18
Chilli peppers in fifteenth-century India?
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18
When you tell a joke and nobody laughs
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18
A phrase, word, or idiom to describe the person who reviews as an outsider
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17
C/C++ intentional out of range indexing
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16
LinkedList Struct Typedef in C
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16
What is the meaning of "To Autumn"?
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16
Does "girlfriend" or "boyfriend" always indicate partnership?
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16
Is "He is on the swim team" correct?
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15
What does "But... They went home" mean in Maya Angelou's "They Went Home"?
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14
Are cardamom husks edible?
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14
Why does the Lady of Shalott stay instead of stray?
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14
Did Shakespeare consider Julius Caesar a tyrant or a martyr?
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13
What is the distinction between Imagism and Symbolism as poetic movements?
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13
Is "I'm glad you think it's funny" meant sarcastically or literally?
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13
Who introduced the sonnet to English literature? Wyatt or Shakespeare?
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12
Ambiguous operator precedence, please explain why operator predence is not followed here?
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12
In musical theatre, what does "book by" mean?
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12
If a novel has different narrators for each chapter, is it metafictional?
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