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Do researchers receive no income from revenues arising from their published papers?

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Why were ships-of-the line not supposed to open fire on frigates during fleet actions?

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Which way are downstream and upstream services?

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Is the O-type blood used as a universal donor?

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If the Union Jack joins the flag of England and Scotland, why does it have a different shade of blue than the Scottish flag?

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Do [US] states with the most gun laws tend to have the fewest gun deaths?

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Why is there no Borg threat in the DS9 series?

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Why does Latin America have a higher number of surviving Native Americans than North America?

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How soon until I can take my newborn to take a walk outside?

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Were secret treaties ratified? How did they become official while remaining secret?

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How kind were the Muslim occupations of North Africa?
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Is Turkish older than Bulgarian?
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Why were Morocco and Tunisia made a French protectorate, but Algeria annexed as part of France?
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Why is the border between Myanmar and Thailand so long?
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Has any country won a war, but lost a non-trivial portion of its territory?
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How were political borders marked during the Middle Ages?
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What significant regions and countries became Muslim without being first conquered by a Muslim power?
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Who was the longest lived European monarch of the middle ages?
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Why was US President Truman “on the high seas” when the Hiroshima atomic bomb was dropped?
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Who was included in the “Moors” of Spain?
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Why did the father of algebra speak Arabic instead of Persian?
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If the Arabic script is suited to Arabic grammar, how do speakers of non-Semitic languages cope with it?
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Why is no one claiming the title of Caliph?
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Why is the motto of the Swedish university Chalmers in French: avancez?
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What was Muhammad's religion before becoming a Muslim prophet?
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Codification of Sharia by the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century
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