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Lady sprains her ankle

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What’s up with the coal in “Asterix and the Chieftain’s Shield”?

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Source for the Stages of Drunkenness resembling sheep, lion, ape, sow?

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Who was Wodehouse’s intended audience for Jeeves and Wooster?

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Do native speakers face difficulty understanding Charles Dickens?

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Does "Blood Meridian" accurately describe gunpowder manufacture?

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What did it mean for Pandit Udaybhan Pandey to own the entire village?

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Evidence for the correct pronunciation of Crowley?

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Meaning of these dialect words and phrases from Artemus Ward, "On Forts"

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Is there a relationship between Edward VI and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?

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Meaning of "Where juries cast up what a wife is worth"?

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What exactly does Dickens mean to say here?

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Explanation of a pargraph from "Five Children and It"

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Did Leonardo da Vinci really say this quote about flight?

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What does "perverse madonna" mean?

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What does “out of the room like a streak” mean?

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What does "and bread loaf is not stone" mean in Maya Angelou's "Alone"?

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What is the English name for "Bilbo Secker", and why is Bilbo Baggins apparently "alternatively" called that?

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What does "walk for a wager" mean in "A Fisher of Men"?

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At what temperature can I safely iron the fabric bookmarks in the volumes of the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade?

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What is a "dream bomb" in Agatha Christie's "Third Girl"?

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What was the "cyclops' smoky band" to which Ewan MacColl's father belonged?

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Is the man about to die in "Meditation on the A30"?

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Why is John Betjeman's poem set on the A30 in particular?

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What is the children's Ark?

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What is the message of "Seasons of Glass and Iron" in terms of men?

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Any textual evidence from Shakespeare's Macbeth regarding Macbeth's oath to kill the king?

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In Kipps, what does H. G. Wells mean by "colonial meat by contract at threepence a pound"?

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What Confederate counterfactual story features Florida as an independent tourist republic?

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In Macbeth, why is Fleance 'scaped?

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