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What is the historical origin of accounting? I have read online that it comes from pre-renaissance Italy - but is there an event that caused it to be needed? Or is there a text, such as a philosophical text or political treatise, that called for it to be needed?
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What led to the creation of the Dewey Decimal system? Why hadn't a system existed before then? And why are there so many different types of library systems organized so differently? And why was Dewey's system the most successful? What was unique about his system?
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Why does our universe continue to expand if there is a limited amount of particles? Where is the extra energy and mass to push it?
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Why didn't Canadian English colonies join the colonies that would become the United States in the American Revolution?
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Was the historical text of the Bible really written in Aramaic originally or was it originally written in the Koine Greek?
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I recently read that John Adams and Thomas Jefferson took a tour of the English countryside during their diplomatic mission to England in the 1780s. Is there a lot reported about what they saw, who they met, what they discussed? It seems like a fascinating place to be for them.
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Why does the strong force work keeping protons and neutrons when the electrostatic force would push them apart?
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