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Does the length of a nautical mile (which, by definition, is based on the curvature of the earth at sea level) change with altitude? In other words, is a nautical mile the same length for an aircraft flying at 30,0000 feet as it is for an ocean liner?

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Who was the first Medal of Honor recipient to receive his medal at the White House?

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Aug 06 25 by serpa

Of what are nori sheets made?

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Aug 05 25 by serpa

Which major European city was liberated for the first time by local military units on April 25, 1945, before the arrival of the Allies?

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Aug 04 25 by pehinhota

What links the '60s pop groups The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield and The Hollies?

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Aug 03 25 by odo5435

What exceptionally large gold reef was claimed to have been discovered at the western edge of the McDonnell Ranges in Central Australia?

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Aug 03 25 by odo5435

What name connects a football team whose name got longer in the 1990s, an actress who has been in two different TV series centring on prostitution, and a feature of between a third and a half of human feet, including those of the Statue of Liberty?

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Jul 31 25 by gmackematix

What is Haglund's deformity?

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Jul 30 25 by serpa

Who was the only head of the Soviet Union's secret police to die of natural causes (in 1934)?

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Jul 28 25 by pehinhota

When was the last time Paul McCartney met, face-to-face, with fellow Beatle John Lennon?

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Jul 28 25 by Philip_Eno

Near present-day Titusville, Pennsylvania, which Native American people collected crude oil flowing along the Oil Creek and used it for medicine and trade, a practice that was adopted by the white settlers in the region?

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Jul 27 25 by pehinhota

Which literary work, published in 1843 by Edgar Allan Poe, was accused by an editor of being stolen from a story of a young schoolgirl?

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Jul 26 25 by pehinhota

Which country's King has regularly piloted commercial passenger jets?

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Jul 26 25 by odo5435

Where is the world's largest palace that is still the normal residence of its country's royal family?

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Jul 26 25 by odo5435

Until May 2021, it was illegal to carry more than 50 Kg of what item in your vehicle in Western Australia?

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Jul 26 25 by odo5435

In what tumultuous event did over eight thousand French people die in one day in present-day Italy?

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Jul 25 25 by pehinhota

Why are school 'Formals' (Australia) or 'Balls' (U.K.) called 'Proms' in the U.S.A.? Where does the word 'prom' come from?

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Jul 24 25 by odo5435

Why do ship's captains and airline pilots still use 'nautical' miles and 'knots' to indicate distance and velocity, instead of more modern, mostly universal, metric measurements?

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Jul 24 25 by odo5435

What were the primary reasons for the cancellation of the Woodstock 50th anniversary event in 2019? Did the trauma from the infamous 1999 event have anything to do with it?

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Jul 24 25 by Thesuperyoshi

What makes a 'homily' different from an 'aphorism'?

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Jul 24 25 by odo5435

Hollywood does not have a great reputation for originality. Including non-English language movies, what is the most remade film (to date)?

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Jul 24 25 by odo5435

Although many south-east Asians and/or Polynesians had prior visits, who was the first European to record sighting the Australian coastline?

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Jul 23 25 by odo5435

In September 1844, where was the world's first "international" cricket match played?

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Jul 23 25 by odo5435

What world first did Pohang, South Korea introduce in 2012?

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Jul 23 25 by odo5435

The famously identical twin girls in blue dresses appear down a hall of the Overlook Hotel, just when young Danny is trying his best not see such spooky things. What movie showed us these ghostly (and uncredited) twins in 1980?

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Jul 21 25 by strike3

In the time of the Crusades where did the Via Dolorosa, the route of Jesus through the city of Jerusalem from his condemnation to his crucifixion, begin?

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Jul 20 25 by pehinhota

Which city in South Yorkshire was ceded to the Kingdom of Scotland in the first Treaty of Durham of 1136, a move that was never formally reversed?

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Jul 19 25 by pehinhota

Founded in 1636, in which South American city was the oldest synagogue in the New World established?

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Jul 17 25 by pehinhota

When did the first aerial bombardment by a foreign power on the continental United States take place?

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Jul 15 25 by pehinhota

Most modern acoustic pianos have 88 keys that create a hammer action upon (normally) metal 'strings'. How many internal 'strings' are there?

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Jul 15 25 by odo5435

In the game of cricket, when the bowler delivers the ball to the batsperson, what makes the action of 'bowling' a legitimate delivery as opposed to 'throwing' the ball (which is called a 'no ball')?

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Jul 15 25 by odo5435

When Alaska was sold in 1867, the Russian Tsar is said to have first made a sale offer to the which European ruler before making an offer to the USA?

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Jul 12 25 by pehinhota

Which African head of state sold the government's fleet of expensive Mercedes cars in the 1980s and made a Renault 5 the ministers' official car?

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Jul 09 25 by pehinhota

Which collaborative team has written the most number of musical theatre shows (e.g. Puccini/Fontana, Gilbert/Sullivan, Gershwin/Gershwin, Hart/Rodgers, Rodgers/Hammerstein, Rice/Lloyd Webber, etc., etc...)?

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Jul 09 25 by odo5435

Are the Eagle Talon and Mitsubishi Eclipse just the same car under different names? What differences, if any, are there between the two?

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Jul 09 25 by Thesuperyoshi

If arithmetic is only one branch of mathematics, how many other branches of mathematics are there?

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Jul 09 25 by odo5435

Members of which Central American ethnic group played the parts of the indigenous peoples in the movies “The Mission” (1986) and “1492: Conquest of Paradise” (1992)?

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Jul 08 25 by pehinhota

Who was the first Olympic medalist from the Republic of Cabo Verde?

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Jul 07 25 by pehinhota

This now defunct company had its main factory in what is now the Czech Republic and its name is a portmanteau of two English words (one misspelt). It popularised something found in libraries across the USA and beyond, which are named after a profession in another setting (i.e. not librarian). What are the company and the object so described?

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Jul 06 25 by gmackematix

How did Residente and Visitante, members of the hip-hop group Calle 13, get their stage names?

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Jul 06 25 by Thesuperyoshi

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