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May 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 May 1

  1. Which All Hallows was Knox offered?
  2. Social etiquette of coffee request
  3. U.S. General Aviation flight hours
  4. Hiding inside animal carcasses
  5. Viking (or Scandinavian) contact with Europe prior to the 8th century ?

May 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 May 2

  1. Left-Wing populism in Europe
  2. ISIS and the Yazidis
  3. Suicides during, or as a result of, The Troubles
  4. Who stole Carl Weiss' body from his grave?
  5. Laurie Lee picked up by a destroyer
  6. Kim Jong-un
  7. Atlantic Award, Rockefeller
  8. Made in USA or Imported
  9. How do humans fulfill their biological functions during wartime?

May 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 May 4

  1. No money = no marriage?
  2. Did the ancient Chinese explore and map out Siberia (North Asia)?
  3. L. Monaco
  4. How did humans travel before knowledge about other languages became readily available?
  5. Picture Post cover
  6. Government of North Korea powers on paper, regardless of practical reality

May 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 May 5

  1. ATOS work capability assessment
  2. Susanovo-Mythen Circle
  3. Price stipulation before capitalism
  4. "Airplane Egg" got burned by cargo cult?
  5. American citizens with official titles of nobility or peerages

May 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 May 6

  1. Under Hawaiian Skies
  2. Opposition to the Second Boer War
  3. Are there parts of the world where land is sometimes sold in circles?

May 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 May 7

  1. Change in views of homosexuality
  2. Aboriginal Australians
  3. What expert considers democratic socialism to be part of libertarianism?
  4. A pound in England hundreds of years ago
  5. Artcraft Studio
  6. Stochastic discipline, a study of bread
  7. Operation Sovereign Borders, Donald Trump, & Media Coverage

May 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 May 8

  1. Portuguese comb
  2. Wikileaks
  3. natural gas historical prices
  4. Equality and competition
  5. Cleopatra's language with Antony

May 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 May 9

  1. Public Domain?
  2. Would anyone have found the 1899 song Telephone dirty?
  3. Puerto Ricans moving to the mainland
  4. Does Western Europe have something close to as bad as the Rust Belt?
  5. Why was Canada's Liberal Party so successful over the long term?
  6. Irish people sold into slavery

May 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 May 10

  1. Death Registrations of the Ottoman Empire
  2. What's the first day of the week?

May 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 May 11

  1. Jean-Luc Melenchon Bernie Sanders? and Palestine state recognition
  2. When did the UK and US start to diverge when it comes to the first-day-of-the-week?
  3. History of the Israeli Supreme Court
  4. Sikh Hierarchy?
  5. Flag meeting
  6. Libertarian and anti psychiatry

May 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 May 12

  1. Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
  2. Learning a programming language just got the libraries?
  3. What was the longest distance war between principals in history?
  4. Pannekoek
  5. Has there even been a jurisdiction that criminalized paying the kidnapping ransom?
  6. State legislature
  7. What took over the BBC's AM radio slots and when?
  8. Higher education in non-European settings

May 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 May 13

  1. 10 years in Iliad and 10 years in Titanomachy
  2. Aki's affidavits
  3. Map help
  4. Government - what do they do?
  5. Bread, cheese, and milk and food combinations
  6. sports coordinations
  7. literate tribes
  8. Birthdays nine months after their parents

May 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 May 14

  1. Most recent Catholic-Protestant conflicts
  2. Precedence in "Persuasion"

May 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 May 15

  1. White House photographers
  2. "Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?"
  3. Job designations named after people
  4. India–Bangladesh enclaves map.
  5. President firing FBI agents
  6. Young earth creationism in other Christian countries

May 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 May 16

  1. Yeong Mui Cha
  2. Is the Linguistic Turn opposed to using mathematics and formal methods in explaining some aspects of reality?
  3. Specialist risk escalation in prince2
  4. Rifle in Expert Infantryman Badge

May 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 May 17

  1. Appeals to the U. S. Supreme Court: availability/access of legal briefs to the public
  2. What stops Africa from redrawing the ignorant colonial borders that put rivals in the same country?
  3. Reading suggestions on American Civil Rights movement and Indian Independence movement?

May 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 May 18

  1. publicly owned pets
  2. Why is there no large city at the mouth of the Susquehanna or Connecticut River?
  3. Saying a prayer before a meal by Christians and Muslims

May 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 May 19

  1. Peel & Co
  2. NEXUS_(frequent_traveler_program)
  3. what do the numbers mean?
  4. Is Gibraltar a country?
  5. Does British TV news ever say Breenter or Bremoan?
  6. New York Times and Comey memo
  7. Slovak World War play

May 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 May 20

  1. Industrial power rate
  2. What grows in the Fertile Crescent?
  3. Why do humans think they own pieces of the earth?
  4. Marriage abroad
  5. Occupation of Greece
  6. Quebec torture
  7. European countries becoming Muslim-majority countries
  8. Nigerian woman's surname

May 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 May 21

  1. Snow White's characteristics
  2. military order bearing signature
  3. Meixi Archways
  4. Is the wedding ceremony or the marriage license proof of marriage?

May 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 May 22

  1. Beyond combining all individual bibles into all - in - one now
  2. Manbulge
  3. Agricultural revolution and cats
  4. What decade is this wallpaper from, roughly?

May 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 May 23

  1. Misplaced valor and the US Merchant Navy

May 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 May 24

  1. Election systems other than the US Electoral College where the candidate with the most votes can theoretically lose
  2. Olive tree history
  3. US warships port calls in China

May 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 May 25

  1. style of inference
  2. Quite frankly, I'm plucking confused
  3. Famous Business Missed Deadlines
  4. How is Russia a developing country?
  5. Why do humans homogenize over time?
  6. US Navy vs PLAN uniform
  7. List of manufacturers with emission scandals
  8. Nomads

May 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 May 26

  1. Living in poverty vs living self-sufficiently but away from large society
  2. Failure to wear caps?
  3. LGBT in Europe

May 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 May 27

  1. Does the Speaker have to resign their speakership before succeeding the presidency
  2. Niihau lakes
  3. red coordinations
  4. Kitchen Cabinet (US)
  5. Grevinec

May 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 May 28

  1. Zhou Yi (周顗)
  2. Instant wire transfer within the UK
  3. Internal exile from Siberia
  4. Recalling a dissolved Parliament

May 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 May 29

  1. Oregon sales tax on AWS services
  2. Canadian Situation Room?

May 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 May 30

  1. British social class system
  2. What is a possible way my ancestors met (I made a DNA test)?
  3. Charles Samuel Stewart
  4. Early US crime records
  5. Dancer's "originated roles" in works by Choreographer X
  6. Sarah Palin mama grizzlies
  7. What G8/7/6 meeting had the most recently inaugurated full member?
  8. Why did some of the go governing bodies give Alphago a 9p rank while FIDE didn't make Deep Blue a GM?
  9. United Kingdom General Election, 2017

May 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 May 31

  1. Signature page of Paris Agreement