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May 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 1

  1. Pasteur's height
  2. Bank Losses
  3. identify artist of painting of George Washington's first inauguration
  4. Plummer v. State v. Bad Elk v. United States
  5. Ashford v Thornton
  6. Article title question
  7. Judges with 'Ag' after name
  8. Man impaled Greek statue

May 2

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  1. Hell and Punishment
  2. versus symbol
  3. Partwork magazines

May 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 3

  1. Request for debate
  2. What was Highland Homes history back in 1946 502 W. Highland Ave Phx. Az 85013
  3. Politics in England

May 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 4

  1. How do I open a manhole?
  2. Why are human beings so unpredictable?
  3. Traffic Lights - Red, Yellow, and GO!

May 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 5

  1. Prayer Your Cross
  2. Did the Great Wall of China accomplish what it was originally intended for?
  3. Scramble for Africa - shares of the colonial powers
  4. Is any US government agency allowed to lie to the public?
  5. Reasons for Western dominance?
  6. islamic countries vs western countries

May 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 6

  1. Does an adopted child change the line of succession to the British throne?
  2. Can someone with a bachelor’s degree in political science and an MBA teach undergraduate courses in Political Science?

May 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 7

  1. Reference to Halle Berry
  2. Schumann's stranded repeat sign
  3. Crossing international or interstate borders by car
  4. Are banks able to loan out more money than they receive in deposits?
  5. Type of social dance shown in Pride and Prejudice
  6. Gangs and cars
  7. Several decades of growth

May 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 8

  1. How long does a British general election campaign really last?
  2. nonrenewables
  3. UK elections
  4. Stadiums' declining capacity
  5. Explanation for Scottish election results sought
  6. UK PM as party leader

May 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 9

  1. Is there any correlation between the areas of Roundhead and Labour support in UK elections?
  2. Are there any universities today that have a post-positivist or anti-positivist curriculum for political science?
  3. 1850 Double "O" Double Eagle
  4. Is England and/or Britain really planning to leave the EU unless they can get more Big Brother laws?

May 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 10

  1. Is it easier to sell a commercial property in China with or without a restaurant lessee?
  2. Debt
  3. Jehovah's Witnesses and the name "Jehovah"
  4. Non-fiction Classification Pre-Dewey Decimal
  5. Question about how WW2 ended the Great Depression in America
  6. Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney
  7. Myth of Polish cavalry charging German tanks with lance and sabre during WWII...

May 11

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  1. How did the Portuguese get hold of Northern Brazil Amazon Forest but not the British, the French or others?
  2. Does BPM Need To Cite Source
  3. Tobruk (Movie 1967)
  4. Flag of Memelland
  5. First Amazon bridge
  6. Cartoon Character
  7. Who painted these?
  8. Hitler at strategy
  9. UK elections 2015

May 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 12

  1. Muslims killed by .... won't go to Paradise
  2. Inconsistent apostrophes in older work
  3. Stella van der Loopen

May 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 13

  1. Iranian reactions to the Andijan massacre?
  2. Copyright for Maya hieroglyphs font based on drawings by scholar Thompson
  3. Parent & child life peers

May 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 14

  1. How can I prevent birds from flying into large picture windows?
  2. Did the French schools in Kabul close?
  3. Mirabeau and the end of absolutism
  4. Is a specific story or author in the public domain?
  5. Citations on Didius Julianus

May 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 15

  1. Bengali font Microsoft Word
  2. Hunchback
  3. Director of the off-off-Broadway production of The Lion in Love (play)?
  4. When did the Cherokee Outlet become part of Oklahoma Territory?

May 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 16

  1. Allegheny vs. Monongahela

May 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 17

  1. Christian fundamentalism, Biblical literalism, and creationism outside the United States
  2. Niderbergdorf
  3. Somerset House
  4. Effect of cigarette prohibition laws (1890-1927)
  5. Tomatoes in pizza and stir-fried eggs and tomatoes

May 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 18

  1. Bloomberg Business
  2. Portuguese gains in WWI?
  3. Cultural attitudes towards slapstick comedy - is there a relationship?

May 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 19

  1. Three Questions on Boundary Commissions (United Kingdom)
  2. The seven lamps of style - P.M.Fulcher,
  3. Novel Sci-Fi Regarding a genetic reason for Jesus Healing
  4. Are most or all American companies and organizations Equal Opportunity Employment employers?
  5. Expanding Sahara
  6. Saltwater crops ?
  7. Operations management

May 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 20

  1. Proof of Alabama rejoining the union on July 13, 1868?
  2. Dostoevsky: origin of quote?
  3. Northanglia?
  4. Secession from the U.S.?
  5. Henri Giscard d'Estaing (historian)?
  6. Are any developed countries solvent in the long run?
  7. Equality equals quantity, whereas equity equals quality
  8. C.C.D. in case citation
  9. Title of this painting
  10. Another legal terminology question
  11. "Augustus ... acknowledged he could not make a new Latin word"
  12. Novel about woman in medieval time
  13. Table of Effects for s:The Health and Safety (Safety Signs and Signals) Regulations 1996

May 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 21

  1. How to pronounce the "v." in court cases?
  2. Visa Waiver Program
  3. America
  4. Can or will formal language replace ordinary language in the literary arts?
  5. Thomas Harcourt's kidney
  6. A detail of the boundary between Minnesota and Wisconsin

May 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 22

  1. Please identify this nasheed
  2. City of London pub history
  3. Sniffle-less Žižek?
  4. Is there a right to be forgotten?

May 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 23

  1. H. Blacklock & Co
  2. Status of Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
  3. One of Queen Victoria's daughters, an eminent scientist, and a mysterious bird.
  4. Are the board memberships and directorships of Delaware Corporations considered public record?
  5. United States paleo-indians
  6. Hawaiian Supreme Court Justices

May 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 24

  1. When did the states join the Confederacy?
  2. professor Robert Solomon Wistrich ..NEUBERGER prof, not as spelled on Wikipedia
  3. Loving your colonizer?

May 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 25

  1. Was Anne Meara considerd influential in her field?
  2. Egtved Girl's cause of death
  3. Masons Manual of Legislative Procedure

May 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 26

  1. Did the National Revolutionary Army really prepare to bomb the Tiananmen?
  2. a short story about mantises

May 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 27

  1. Request for Free Resources for Law Courses
  2. 1895 newspaper
  3. National Guards vs Citizens' Guards of the Republic of Hawaii
  4. Involuntary apprenticeship?

May 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 28

  1. Capitals and Largest Cities of American States
  2. Women and menstruation
  3. US police skirts
  4. Forced consent by means of imprisonment; any precedent in law for rights breach?
  5. Kiowa Tribe Article
  6. Copycatting

May 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 29

  1. US restraining orders
  2. How can information be corrected?
  3. Who ruled France in the early 16th-century?
  4. Green armband , Poland, 1934
  5. Strategy of Tension

May 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 30

  1. Italy

May 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 31

  1. What has Wat got in his hand? (17th Century portraiture)
  2. fictional scarecrow
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