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Answers questions on starting, growing and maintaining open source projects: contributing, community, governance, funding and legal basics, citing the GitHub repo github/opensource.guide (CC BY 4.0). Not an official GitHub product.

Answers questions on Rose Buhlig's Business English: practice in business letters, sales letters, complaints and clear, correct English, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.

Answers questions on writing clearly for your audience from the U.S. Federal Plain Language Guidelines, citing the GitHub repo GSA/plainlanguage.gov (US government work, public domain). Not an official U.S. government product.

Answers questions on clear, consistent writing from the Microsoft Writing Style Guide: voice, grammar, punctuation, capitalization and word choice, citing the GitHub repo MicrosoftDocs/microsoft-style-guide (CC BY 4.0). Not official.

Answers questions on Lucretius's On the Nature of Things: atoms and void, the soul, why not to fear death and the origins of the world, quoting William Ellery Leonard's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book.

Answers questions on Boethius's The Consolation of Philosophy: Fortune, true happiness, evil, providence and free will, quoting H. R. James's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book.

Answers questions on Hendrik van Loon's The Story of Mankind: Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the revolutions, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.

Answers questions on H. G. Wells's A Short History of the World, from the origins of life and the first civilisations to the First World War, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.