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Is it the same around the world? If it differs how does it? What other similar sounds else are used?

I just wanted to get any secondary or primary sources on the Social War between Rome and erstwhile allies in Italy... there may not be very much! Any ideas?

I want the name and title of a painting. Its an expressionist painting around about 1930 I think. It had the title of ' Death of the poet Hoffmansthal' ? Or something along those lines.

Was it the Death? Suicide? of a poet ? son of a poet? I think it was Hoffmannsthal perhaps someone else ? Its a guy falling out of a window. In lurid colours obviously! I cannot find it and it and it is driving me ab-so-lute-ly bonkers.

I need ideas for tomorrows trip up to London with my two boys aged 7 and 9. Any ideas? Anything quirky? But not too expensive.

I am thinking of recursion as applied to linguistics. If you could avoid jokes along the lines of "for recursion: see recursion" that would be great as I'm fed up with seeing it.

Right this has been bugging me for years. I think it is a BBC supernatural drama from the 1980's.

The only scene I remember - A ghost hunter? An historical researcher goes into a church at twilight and cannot find his way out. As the light fades he starts to see naked figures of all ages and sizes come toward and around him him. The music in the background is one of Eric Saties Gnossiennes. I thought the actor was Keith Barron but a check of his filmography says no. It's been bugging me for years. Any help out there with its name?

I mean the dogs that are associated with our ancestors. I'd like links please to archaeological sites Not just people saying they looked a bit like wolves.

Has anyone done any analysis of digit ratios in cave painting handprints. Basically to see if they were usually men or whether women also did them.

I've recently lost my ipod. If I buy a new one will it it synchronize automatically with my itunes collection. I'm really stupid with this kind of thing.

And the garden of Eden and the serpent and all that.

If I put three sets of 3D glasses together over my eyes. Im too scared to try.

What was the biggest battle in ancient history - in terms of the amount of soldiers involved? Phillipi? One of Alexander the Greats? Somewhere in China?

Are the sounds that are made the same in all languages?

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From memory I think it's Italian but possible Spanish or French. I think from the 70s. It's set in a cinema. A moviegoer gets shot dead whilst a western film is going on and the police are baffled. It happens again and once again the police are wondering what the hell is going on. They do a reconstruction and they discover that a character on the film itself is doing the killing....It's very weird. Any ideas?

My son asked this . How big can a planet that is rocky - e.g like Earth or Mars - get?

There must be some kind of theoretical limit.

Yes a Christmas question