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April 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 April 1

1. British pound and friends
2. Jewish perspective on the failures of rebuilding the Third Temple
3. Were there any pro-segregationist black people in the southern U.S.A?
4. Turkey, censorship, emigration, Europe

April 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 April 2

1. Can money buy better lawyers and an advantage in lawsuits in US?
2. 1960s baseball scores
3. Qualifications for Salvation Army goods and services?
4. Wicca ethics

April 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 April 3

1. Mass shootings outside of North America, and also non-American shootings where the perpetrator committed suicide.
2. Beard in mohamedans
3. Citing a German Margrave
4. Elizabeth II and Israel
5. English
6. How old are American baby boys circumcised?
7. Additional references for "Middlesex" novel page

April 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 April 4

1. Free Books about the 1919 Paris Peace Conference Which Were Written by People Who Attended This Conference
2. Law: Licensing
3. Nurse's cap
4. Women kidnapped to Saudi Harems?

April 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 April 5

1. Federal driver's licenses in the USA
2. History of British Summer Time dates
3. Memoir of Soviet General in Southern European Theater
4. Is the white population of South Africa increasing?

April 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 April 6

1. Last Surviving Person Who Attended the 1919 Paris Peace Conference Question
2. A novel about a kid and his Triceratops
3. Unsure about whether this is original research
4. Investment Performance
5. Immigration restrictions on Russians ?

April 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 April 7

1. Drive a rare car, see lots of rare cars?
2. How much assimilation?
3. How many Southern Baptists are Fundamentalists?
4. Looking for the exact peer-reviewed article...
5. Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Mizrahi, Kaifeng, etc.
6. Announcement of Final Hungary Election Results

April 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 April 8

1. How did people view nature before the Enlightenment?
2. Women during menstruation in antiquity

April 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 April 9

1. What are the oldest large football, cricket and (non-horse) track venues in use? Say 25K+?
2. Why are standing sections "a thing" in developed countries?
3. What is the oldest surviving contemporaneously dated artefact?
4. Fighting with Demons
5. Why do Protestants view the Catholic church as the whore of Babylon, but not the Orthodox churches of Eastern Europe?
6. Former Catholics marrying UK royals

April 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 April 10

1. roshan padvi
2. The prices of items often end in 99 cents.
3. Full text of GI Bill (as of 1944)
4. Grimms' Fairy Tales
5. Selling food in the USA
6. List of popular contemporary fiction
7. Rate of China's population in growth in 1960

April 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 April 11

1. Conflict of interest
2. Fancy French Hotel with Ballroom
3. Contacting author of article on Martinus Sieveking
4. Could a state church baptize someone for secular reasons?
5. White American culture? Is there such thing and if so, what is it?
6. comparison by design

April 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 April 12

1. What does these Symbols of tattoos mean?
2. Does it make sense to pay your employees more, so that they can afford your products?

April 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 April 13

1. Why should a company care about its own share price?
2. "We" in Islam
3. The Rosary
4. What happened to the British Ambassador in Germany after declaration of war by Great Britain in 1939?
5. Sources for "North Carolina locations by per capita income"
6. Selling weapons to both sides in a war
7. King Alexander & Queen Draga's Serbian assassins

April 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 April 14

1. medical power of attorney for my adult disabled child while I am out of the country
2. Psalm 72:3
3. Roadkill
4. Do non-Jewish White Americans ever hold ethnic weddings?
5. St. Patrick's name
6. British Cabinet: attendees and members
7. What is happening here?
8. Trying to identify a painting
9. Post-World War II Aims of Britain and France in 1939-1940

April 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 April 15

1. Criticism and possible further development of the Modernization Theory?
2. Knut Hamsun's Nobel medal

April 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 April 16

1. Hatta and Dubai
2. Mid Atlantic states geography

April 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 April 17

1. Could the Egyptian pyramids have been painted on the outside?
2. Russell Senate Office Building
3. Ice cream and beer consumption versus income
4. Examples of LGBT Christian evangelization
5. Trying to remember a short story . .?
6. author Jill Churchill
7. Difference between "Irreligion" and "Atheist/Agnostic"?
8. WHAT IF IT NEVER HAPPENED

April 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 April 18

1. Inauguration day falls on a Sunday
2. What happens with the bail money?
3. Formologics?
4. Pentecostal Parenting

April 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 April 19

1. Do Japanese people have special beliefs about being beheaded?
2. Frank Hird

April 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 April 20

1. Coffee, tea, or alcohol.
2. how much profit do mobile manufactureres make?
3. Religious prohibitions on the celebration of birthdays and holidays
4. Active Financing Exception and CFC Look-Through Rule
5. Is it racist for someone to call themselves white Canadian/American of European ancestry?

April 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 April 21

1. Circumcision
2. Need help finding a short story
3. Where does confiscated money go?
4. Paid editing
5. "Law and Gospel" and 16th Century Western European Christianity
6. poetry

April 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 April 22

1. biographical details of Jakob Lorber
2. Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
3. History on Author & Occultist Donald Tyson.
4. Currency Exchange
5. Why do Hare Krishna adherents view Buddhism negatively?
6. "Outreach Ministry"
7. The other timeline of ancient history

April 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 April 23

1. Polk's Declaration of War
2. Which is more commonly used: Myanmar or Burma?
3. Uncertainties in opinion polls

April 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 April 24

1. Patron saints
2. UK House of Lords age minimum
3. Age of consent spain - wrong information in wikipedia
4. Definition of Viking
5. Scottish/Irish currency

April 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 April 25

1. Franklin Pierce
2. Suggested retail price
3. Bovine Tuberculosis

April 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 April 26

1. Correlation between leadership in the workplace and social skills
2. Bismillah - Bohemian Rhapsody
3. Saga of sci-fi novels (of the same author) about a cosmic war between centuries-old creatures (probably thousands of pages)

April 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 April 27

1. Would this count as a primary or secondary source? (anthropology master's thesis)
2. Canadian version of national crime victimization survey?
3. Political direction of national socialism
4. United Kingdom a federalistic state?
5. Is this map accurate?
6. music similar to Miserere mei, Deus

April 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 April 28

1. Request to add photo of eminent Economist
2. Russian Air Force
3. Post-World War I Plebiscite (Referendum) Requests Which Were Rejected
4. Syrian Civil War
5. Basdeo Panday
6. Is blue hair a "thing" in England for older women?
7. Corporal Punishment

April 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 April 29

1. Mailer/Behan punch-up
2. Anglo-Saxon exiles after 1066
3. John Bedford Leno

April 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 April 30

1. short story identification
2. Diplomatic immunity and firefighters
3. Combat footage
4. Notable members of the British Home Guard in World War II