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May 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 1

  1. Gambier Islands
  2. Kings of Easter Island
  3. "People are much less accurate at throwing darts at pictures of JFK than at pictures of Hitler"
  4. Flags of Trans-Mississippi
  5. Online photography contest
  6. Why isn't Kosovo a UN member/observer?
  7. Taian teahouse page help
  8. St. Vincent de Paul Church in Davenport California

May 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 2

  1. Exact date of death for writer Doris Gates?
  2. Have any countries succeeded at reducing censoring of media?
  3. Is it possible for an author to hide his writer's voice?
  4. Why didn't Richard Kuklinski get the death penalty?
  5. Los Angeles of Toronto
  6. Sega and Toronto Blur Jays font
  7. Somoans/Pacific Islanders
  8. humanities academic journal search online

May 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 3

  1. want to know about a 1911 book
  2. Penn state page
  3. Methodological individualism
  4. What is the best open access English speaking university?
  5. George Ledwell Taylor (1788 – 1873)
  6. Which is larger

May 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 4

  1. Why did the United States purchase so much territory compared to other countries?
  2. Garouch and Bad Pakh in Afghanistan
  3. Wikimania
  4. Jurisprudence, Barrister, Magistrate
  5. Abrahamic religions and religious tolerance
  6. Is there a relationship between lesbianism and 'uppity women'?
  7. In short, what caused Greece to be in the bad shape that it's in?
  8. Ancient history
  9. Looking for a sci-fi story
  10. Historians favor U.S. Presidents who owned slaves

May 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 5

  1. presentness as opposed to presence
  2. Hesychius?
  3. The preserved Pharaoh in Islam
  4. Who ordered the construction of Tauride Palace?
  5. Eritrea and Ethiopia

May 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 6

  1. Historians
  2. Pillars of Society
  3. Abe Lincoln vs. The Native Americans
  4. CBS ABC FOX CNN
  5. Free bus passes in England
  6. Life imprisonment in England and Wales
  7. about islam
  8. Handbury question
  9. Viewership vs advertising
  10. "bread" as a slang word
  11. Business Magazine question
  12. Robot education in science fiction
  13. elections in the uk

May 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 7

  1. Exclave of Berkshire in the middle of Buckinghamshire
  2. Second(?) Longest regularly scheduled National elections cycle in the World?
  3. Psychologists/psychiatrists having sex with ex- patients
  4. Canada-France relationship Jean Chretien Francois Mitterrand

May 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 8

  1. Why has the Battle of Moscow recently taken the spotlight as the turning point of WWII's Eastern front when Battle of Stalingrad has enjoyed that title for years? What changed?
  2. Medical education in Russia
  3. Prince Henry?
  4. Hanukkah
  5. Lotus Blossom Babies?
  6. What is an MRS degree?
  7. Racism laws in South Africa
  8. Decapitate

May 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 9

  1. Soviet invasion of Xinjiang
  2. Most beautiful women
  3. Early numbers of cars
  4. Abu Qatada Gap
  5. Trooping the Colour Music
  6. Puerto Rican statehood vote 2012
  7. unemployment benefits (USA)
  8. Are images on Wikipedia part of the public domain?
  9. foreign students
  10. French for black male servants to French women during colonial times
  11. First Christian Nation and/or First Nation Claiming to be "Christian"
  12. What is the best life strategy? a - expect the best or b - expect the worst

May 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 10

  1. English AP exam prompts
  2. Was Brad Mehldau's Largo recorded live?
  3. Gesturing while Talking
  4. Merger of elevator divisions of ThyssenKrupp and Hitachi
  5. US bureaucratic reorganisation
  6. Is Gambling work?

May 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 11

  1. Are there any rational arguments against gay marriage at all?
  2. Pierre De Fermat
  3. Countries whose civilian salute is placing the right hand on the heart?
  4. Netherlands single party majority
  5. ISA
  6. "Purpose" of marriage
  7. Catherine, daughter of Joan I of Naples

May 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 12

  1. Actual lawsuits over use of presumed Orphan works
  2. Is Sukhoi Superjet 100 the first civilian passenger aircraft produced by Sukhoi?
  3. What do you call this? (Chinese history-related question)
  4. Why has New York City historically been so East River oriented?

May 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 13

  1. Mutopia project music licencing
  2. La frégate L'Artémise entrant à Tanoa, après son échouage
  3. Historical popular culture "meems"
  4. Marriage
  5. Relationship of Cole's `The voyage of Life' and Rachmaninoff's `Symphonic Dances'
  6. Identification of a Native American
  7. War until one side has 0 men left?
  8. English Civil War, international reaction
  9. Pierre De Fermat 2

May 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 14

  1. Washington, DC's street grid
  2. Secular scholarly studies on Christianity and the Bible
  3. Phantom Zone
  4. The Specifically British Title "Professor"
  5. Are gamekeepers kind of underdogs in England?
  6. John Slidell
  7. Pronunciation of Albanian names ending in -aj
  8. Dual doctorates
  9. The stadium of other lives
  10. Jigsaw puzzles in literature

May 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 15

  1. Difference between genres?
  2. Last year Spain, Italy and/or Greece were together?
  3. Brooks's dress?
  4. French language of South Asia and other european languages of South Asia
  5. What's this flag?
  6. Ludwig van Beethoven's background
  7. Killings per country total
  8. Declaring money to keep the same value

May 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 16

  1. Republic colonialism
  2. International Relations
  3. Identify somebody from history
  4. English term for the French "l'Euphratèse"
  5. Office of Economic Opportunity
  6. Chafing-dish

May 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 17

  1. Plague crosses
  2. Arabs and Afro-Francophones in French cities
  3. Indonesian Muslims in the Netherlands
  4. African emigrants in Spain major cities
  5. The marriage moment
  6. "Zucker-" prefix in German/Jewish surnames
  7. Fiji, Ireland, South Africa
  8. cost of living in the USA

May 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 18

  1. Accidents involving aircrafts carrying state leaders
  2. Who was Charles Sweeney (one of Ernest Hemingway's friends)
  3. Question about military
  4. Why do people appreciate Pan-Am smiles?
  5. Marxist criticism of marriage
  6. important colony

May 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 19

  1. Bastards
  2. 7-Eleven in the UK in the nineties?
  3. Depression and unhappiness
  4. Biharis of Bangladesh
  5. Jar with multiple spouts
  6. Were any cities completely destroyed by a natural disaster

May 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 20

  1. Are thumbnails in search engines fair dealing in Canada?
  2. Charles Giraud
  3. Appropriate amount of wine to give neighbours
  4. Appropriate amount of wine to give neighbours part 2
  5. Fourteenth century English Parliament

May 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 21

  1. Froggy (brand)
  2. Islam in Canada
  3. Why is religion not taxed in America
  4. Coenraad "van" Bos

May 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 22

  1. Lieutenant governor (Canada)
  2. Were the commonwealth realms technically neocolonies?
  3. Medieval means of publication
  4. Smokey (the) Bear and US federal law
  5. Reviews of work of historian Antony Polonsky
  6. Can a US state unilaterally secede?
  7. Confirm some data about states with death penalty for apostasy

May 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 23

  1. SITTING REPUBLICAN US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
  2. Communism on totalitarianism and authoritarianism
  3. London Partnership Register
  4. Stage Combat in the 18. Century
  5. US federal prisoners before federal prisons
  6. Football statistics and copyright
  7. Please help a struggling uncle!

May 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 24

  1. Chen Guangcheng vs. Chengguan
  2. What the point of a 0% investment?
  3. Hypothetical voting system
  4. Kennedy assassination book(s)
  5. Relative popularity of "Simon" in the UK and USA during the 20th century

May 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 25

  1. "backcharge wealth-getting fee"
  2. Legal aspects of Etan Patz's case
  3. Franco-Tahitian War and the Leeward Island Wars
  4. Middle Class Indians & Immigration to America

May 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 26

  1. CAN IT POSSIBLE
  2. Treason in the USA
  3. purely leveraged financial instrument
  4. Roman catholics in England

May 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 27

  1. Economics as normative ethics
  2. US Electoral College v. popular vote
  3. Prefabs, UK
  4. John Webber
  5. Anna of Austria (1549–1580)
  6. Soviet tankers (ships)
  7. Country of passport, Passport nationality
  8. Maslow's hierarchy of needs - examining its history (who invented 'the pyramid'?)
  9. Wealemefnas

May 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 28

  1. $ 250,000
  2. Third party political systems in United States state parliaments and territorial parliamentary houses
  3. is it ironic?
  4. Religion
  5. history of investor protection / references
  6. Power of Attorney

May 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 29

  1. Four temperaments
  2. People who have "recanted" after coming out
  3. Theoretically, will piracy be eliminated or lessened if...
  4. Oldest historical event
  5. Picture interpretation
  6. Judged for two things simultaneously ...
  7. Impersonating a priest
  8. USS Peacock
  9. Why do fossils?
  10. Is 'Death cross' some kind of commonplace jargon in finance/investing?
  11. Foreign countries that advocate for change in the United States

May 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 30

  1. requiring alcoholics to get treatment
  2. Eurobank's Logo
  3. in pale
  4. Che Guevara's gun/s and capture

May 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 31

  1. Date references
  2. Legal vacation/vacating
  3. What is the tune?
  4. Signing of federal laws in the U.S.
  5. Causes of homosexuality
  6. Earliest recorded drunk
  7. CDN © : company does freelance
  8. "the normal human sexual continuum"