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Readers' opinions of this book |
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Ten questions that should be answered |
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Abandoned trade names for instant mashed potatoes |
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The Operations of Folding a Cat |
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Top ten parts of the body |
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Random New York subway stations |
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How to recognize the facial expressions of others |
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Suicide: seven ways to do it and what they do to you |
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Ten types of wood with unusual names, and where it grows |
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Years in which Friday the 13th falls in a January |
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Twelve interesting engine types |
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23 | (1) |
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Showing the parts of the sheep and pig |
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24 | (1) |
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25 | (1) |
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Things to train a snake to do |
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Cumulative effects of alcohol on the system |
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Personal `encounter' ads explained |
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The Foot-in-Mouth Alphabet |
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28 | (3) |
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Some songs featuring numbers |
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31 | (1) |
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Little known cigar-lovers |
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31 | (1) |
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Five silly Irish place names |
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Seven films in which chess has featured |
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American presidents who were impeached |
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33 | (1) |
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Some Star Trek races and civilizations |
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36 | (1) |
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Things that have been found in food, 1921--36 |
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37 | (1) |
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37 | (1) |
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Unpopular wedding anthems |
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38 | (1) |
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Not really popular boys' names |
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38 | (1) |
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Not really popular girls' names |
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38 | (1) |
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Most popular styles of camouflage print for fashion clothing |
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Twenty unusual dance names |
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41 | (1) |
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Planets of the solar system and their root meanings |
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41 | (1) |
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Ten noted dead opera singers |
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41 | (1) |
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42 | (1) |
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Some prosimians (and related animals) |
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42 | (1) |
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Lighting a candle under difficulties |
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Phrases to avoid when employing pre-nineteenth-century typography |
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44 | (1) |
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44 | (1) |
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44 | (1) |
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Ten things to do with mashed potatoes |
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45 | (1) |
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Group names (with the type of group first) |
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46 | (1) |
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47 | (1) |
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Colors - including those you didn't know existed |
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49 | (1) |
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American presidents who have served two non-consecutive terms |
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49 | (1) |
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A selection of Doctor Who monsters |
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50 | (1) |
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Five Scotch words for geographical details |
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50 | (1) |
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Really stupid aircraft names |
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51 | (1) |
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Unfashionable boys' names |
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51 | (1) |
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51 | (1) |
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Some things you (probably) didn't know about plants |
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52 | (1) |
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53 | (1) |
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Top Ten FBI most-wanted people as at Friday, 27 June 2003 |
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54 | (1) |
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Twenty fish you may not have heard of |
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55 | (1) |
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Five unusual types of chessmen |
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55 | (1) |
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56 | (1) |
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57 | (1) |
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57 | (1) |
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Ten amusing catchphrases beginning with the word `go' |
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58 | (1) |
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Ten interesting snakes and their binomials |
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59 | (1) |
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Top ten mistakes in web design in the mid-nineties before things got funkier |
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60 | (1) |
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61 | (1) |
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Carrying a large flat parcel |
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61 | (1) |
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62 | (1) |
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Some notable cider apples |
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62 | (1) |
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Little-known works by popular authors |
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63 | (1) |
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63 | (1) |
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63 | (1) |
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Some titles of books and plays featuring numbers |
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64 | (1) |
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64 | (1) |
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Some useful spells to send by text message |
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65 | (1) |
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65 | (1) |
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65 | (1) |
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Well-known names that changed |
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66 | (1) |
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Five silly presidential middle names |
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66 | (1) |
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Some parts of a ship or boat |
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67 | (1) |
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67 | (1) |
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Some common abbreviations for txt msgs |
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68 | (1) |
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69 | (1) |
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69 | (1) |
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Some fascinating grammatical and linguistic terms |
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70 | (1) |
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Extinct Scotch and Irish clans |
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71 | (1) |
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Words to be avoided in genteel conversation |
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71 | (1) |
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72 | (1) |
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72 | (1) |
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Things to say very loudly from the stalls during theatrical performances |
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73 | (1) |
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Degrees of sliminess (the `Bragg Scale') |
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73 | (1) |
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Rarely used murder weapons |
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73 | (1) |
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A cheat's guide to literature |
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74 | (6) |
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80 | (1) |
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81 | (1) |
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81 | (1) |
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Ways of escaping attacks from wild animals (probably) |
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82 | (1) |
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Devices for jogging the memory |
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83 | (1) |
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Unusual/unfortunate place names in Britain |
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84 | (1) |
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American presidents who were never elected to office |
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84 | (1) |
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85 | (1) |
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Interesting things about New Zealand |
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85 | (1) |
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86 | (1) |
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Confident towns in the USA |
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86 | (1) |
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87 | (1) |
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Movies featuring transport |
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87 | (1) |
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87 | (1) |
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US towns that encourage eating |
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88 | (1) |
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US towns lacking self-esteem |
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88 | (1) |
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88 | (1) |
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Some tractors and combine harvesters |
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89 | (1) |
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Seven things you can never quite remember |
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89 | (1) |
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Five sequels that never were |
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89 | (1) |
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The Right Way of Doing Things |
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90 | (1) |
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91 | (1) |
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92 | (1) |
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War-comic terms for enemy and allied soldiers |
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92 | (1) |
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Twenty-one notable dead engineers |
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92 | (1) |
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Useful Latin phrases for tourists |
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93 | (1) |
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Ten companies that changed their names to achieve success |
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93 | (1) |
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Twenty pairs of great lovers in fiction and in life |
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94 | (1) |
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Rare or curious names for bars |
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94 | (1) |
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People-loving towns in the USA |
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94 | (1) |
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Some leading dead film directors |
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95 | (1) |
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Obscure royal appointments |
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95 | (1) |
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Signals used in umpiring cricket |
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96 | (1) |
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Five euphemisms for death |
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96 | (1) |
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97 | (1) |
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French aviation terms used in English |
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97 | (1) |
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Some words and phrases which need no further explanation |
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97 | (1) |
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97 | (1) |
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Twelve things to do to obtain privacy on a train |
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98 | (1) |
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Twelve rare breeds of dog |
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98 | (1) |
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Some boring schools and theories |
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99 | (1) |
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US states beginning with C or M |
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99 | (1) |
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Twenty-one things a gentleman should never do |
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100 | (1) |
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Degrees of sycophancy (The `Fawsley Scale') |
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100 | (1) |
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Some Yup'ik Eskimo (Central Alaskan Eskimo) words relating to snow |
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101 | (1) |
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Culinary terms for posers |
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102 | (1) |
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Twelve answers that should be questioned |
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103 | (1) |
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US state capitals which share names with minor celebrities |
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103 | (1) |
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Cooking methods as seen on television |
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104 | (1) |
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Points of table etiquette |
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105 | (1) |
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Prime numbers whose individual digits add up to |
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106 | (1) |
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106 | (1) |
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107 | (1) |
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Some intriguing surgical operations |
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107 | (1) |
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Medical professionals' abbreviations (the ones patients don't usually see) |
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108 | (1) |
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Seven marriages made in heaven |
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109 | (1) |
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110 | (1) |
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111 | (1) |
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112 | (1) |
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Exceptionally simple palindromes |
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112 | (1) |
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Most popular missing persons |
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112 | (1) |
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112 | (1) |
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Uncommon expressions for everyday social use I |
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113 | (1) |
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Words prefixed or suffixed `royal' that are not connected with the British royal family |
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113 | (1) |
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114 | (1) |
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Things not to say to your mother on her birthday |
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115 | (1) |
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`Their name liveth for evermore' I |
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115 | (1) |
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Contemporary collective nouns |
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116 | (1) |
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116 | (1) |
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`Their name liveth for evermore' II |
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117 | (1) |
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Strange place names in the USA and Canada |
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117 | (1) |
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118 | (1) |
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Famous miscellaneous Belgians |
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119 | (1) |
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Radical building materials |
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119 | (1) |
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`Do you come here often?' and other opening gambits |
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119 | (1) |
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120 | (1) |
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121 | (1) |
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122 | (1) |
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Tough guys with names like wimps |
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123 | (1) |
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Four other things that happened on the fourth of July |
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123 | (1) |
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Ten films featuring public thoroughfares |
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124 | (1) |
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Ten films featuring rabbits |
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124 | (1) |
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Countries whose names begin and end with the same letter |
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124 | (1) |
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Uncommon expressions for everyday social use II |
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125 | (1) |
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Ten things to take on vacation |
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125 | (1) |
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Some common types of cone |
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125 | (1) |
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126 | (1) |
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Five obsolete euphemisms for naughty bits of the body |
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126 | (1) |
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Five English ways of saying `you are a stupid ass' |
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127 | (1) |
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127 | (1) |
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128 | (1) |
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Fashionable diseases and ailments |
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128 | (1) |
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Websites offering Canadian trivia |
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129 | (1) |
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Flopped books and film sequels |
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129 | (1) |
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Useful `Franglais' phrases (as spoken in northern Ontario) |
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130 | (1) |
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131 | (1) |
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Websites offering New Zealand trivia |
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131 | (1) |
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132 | (1) |
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132 | (1) |
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Buoys used by various nations |
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133 | (1) |
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Some useful knots, hitches, etc. for commuters |
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134 | (1) |
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Some other useful knots and hitches |
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135 | (1) |
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136 | (1) |
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137 | (1) |
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Things they may wish they had never said |
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138 | (1) |
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139 | (1) |
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Words deriving from alleged national or regional characteristics |
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139 | (1) |
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Movie titles involving animals/birds |
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140 | (1) |
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140 | (1) |
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The Seven Ages of Man (according to Shakespeare) |
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141 | (1) |
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Or, to put it another way |
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141 | (1) |
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Magazines for specialist interests |
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141 | (1) |
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Movie titles involving cities |
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142 | (1) |
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Aircraft engines named after birds and animals (some mythical) |
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142 | (1) |
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142 | (1) |
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Some titles taken from Shakespeare |
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143 | (1) |
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143 | (1) |
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144 | (1) |
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Sixteen sheep breeds you may not have heard of |
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144 | (1) |
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Famous people with pseudonyms |
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145 | (1) |
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146 | (1) |
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146 | (1) |
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146 | (1) |
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Some words beginning with over |
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146 | (1) |
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Not wildly popular sea captains |
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147 | (1) |
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Ten three-letter words involving movement |
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147 | (1) |
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Twelve common misquotations |
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148 | (1) |
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Expressions of deep gloom |
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148 | (1) |
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Four exercises to help reduce a double chin |
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149 | (1) |
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Words which have entered the language and the dictionary in the twenty-first century |
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149 | (1) |
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Phrases spoken by parrots |
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150 | (1) |
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150 | (1) |
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Important lessons to learn from the movies |
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151 | (1) |
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152 | (1) |
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152 | (1) |
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Famous people with first names and surnames that begin with the same letter |
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153 | (1) |
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Famous people with surnames that are first names |
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154 | (1) |
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Famous people whose names begin with `H' who are known by the one name |
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154 | (1) |
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Famous people whose names begin with `S' who are known by the one name |
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154 | (1) |
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155 | (1) |
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The longest one-syllable words in the English language |
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155 | (1) |
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155 | (1) |
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Well-known bungee-jumping sites |
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156 | (1) |
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156 | (1) |
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157 | (1) |
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Strategic management bible |
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157 | (1) |
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158 | (1) |
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158 | (1) |
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159 | (1) |
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Some of the commonest words in the English language |
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159 | (1) |
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159 | (1) |
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