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Could George I (of Great Britain) speak English?

18th-century language monarchy great-britain asked Aug 24, 2019 at 6:16

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What was the first Really Big Thing to appear in Science Fiction?

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Is there anything to support this Wikipedia claim about Ursula K. Le Guin re-using the planet name "Werel"?

ursula-k-le-guin hainish-cycle asked Jan 1, 2019 at 17:33

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Who is this robot from the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction?

character-identification robots cover-art asked Jan 28, 2023 at 16:12

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Which version of the C Standard Library does the C++23 Standard incorporate?

c++ language-lawyer standards c++23 asked Nov 3, 2023 at 16:05

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Was Harry Harrison aware that he was giving James DiGriz a cover name that means "life vest"?

names harry-harrison the-stainless-steel-rat asked Mar 2, 2019 at 22:36

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Would auto-update policies have contained the Crowdstrike outage?

anti-virus automatic-updates content-security-policy asked Jul 22 at 17:23

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Source of the quote "I will blurb your book, or I will read it, but not both"

quotes larry-niven asked Dec 6, 2021 at 22:54

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Isaac Newton is visited by a time traveller who tries to give him a calculator

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Why does std::basic_ios have a public constructor?

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How do you describe, in English, a set of different ethnic groups in one word?

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Why might the government keep the gold at Fort Knox, even though super-villains steal it all the time?

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What does this lyric from Thriller refer to?

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"Federal" is to "Federally" as "State" is to

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Why was Gandalf unsure if Bilbo's ring was the One Ring if he had seen an image of Sauron's Eye when he was about to pick it up?

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Looking for the Justice League (?) comic book that has the cover page mentioning the Coronavirus (?)

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"Subterranean", but for planets/surfaces other than Earth

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Is Elven immortality in Middle-earth tied to the Elven Rings of Power?

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Is there an idiom/phrase which contains the word "head" to mean "thinking hard to solve a problem"?

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How could a spaceship, because of mechanical issues, crash-land on a planet they weren't intending on travelling to?

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Why did Merry (apparently) not get to experience the first adventures with the other three hobbits?

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Which was the first fictional work to bring up the concept of giant bugs?

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Are the 'Undying Lands' America?

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Why didn't Eru Ilúvatar trip Isildur?

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What did Canadians use to pay for goods or services between 1871 and 1935?

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What is the origin of the "being immortal sucks" trope?

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What is the earliest known historical reference to Tutankhamun?

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Why did Star Trek: Voyager season 1 only have 16 episodes?

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A word or phrase that implies "a struggle or hardship is about to begin"?

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Teams of children selected to end a war using nuclear weapons

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What exactly was East Prussia between 1933 and 1945? Was it part of a larger government, and which one?

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Where does the Amazon River really begin?

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What did Han Solo experience while frozen in Carbonite?

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Why aren't lenticular clouds moved by the wind?

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Did the Light of the Trees diminish after the creation of the Silmarils?

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Is there a geological explanation for the recent Mammoth tusk discovery 185 miles off the California coast?

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Kingdom with helpful bands of mercenaries; avoiding devolving into bandits

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Is it possible for an ocean to have a river flowing from it into a lake?

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Does anyone recognize the identity and location of this octagonal structure?

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Fantasy book: king's fool bound to him by magic, captive girl is secretly the fool's sister

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