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September 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 September 2

1. instigation of French revolution
2. Navigation tower in harbor
3. One crime, two sentences for runaway sailor?
4. Communion and Political Opinion in the Catholic Church
5. Degrees from developing contries not recognized?

September 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 September 3

1. Negotiating Kentucky's admission to the Union
2. Minority governments in Canada must include the plurality party?
3. Coronation of Jean-Bédel Bokassa

September 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 September 4

1. Odysseus and Achilles' armor
2. The love that dare not speak its name
3. Old Mother Hubbard
4. More general than AU?
5. Unusual boats
6. Why so many refugees want to come to Germany?
7. White-painted tree-trunks

September 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 September 6

1. 'World Anti-Fascist War'
2. UK/France deliberations on declaring war on the USSR
3. Degree
4. Solomon Adams
5. Which St. Theodore?
6. Insecurity

September 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 September 7

1. If the U.S. government was fighting terrorists hiding in vast rain forests during the 1940's, would she prefer artillery bombardment over carpet bombing to eliminate the threat?
2. Artwork comprising a real hat, a photo of a hat, and the vocabulary definition of a hat
3. Date of congressional act
4. What is the source for, and why is the candidate (seemingly) crying here?

September 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 September 8

1. Unicameralism in the U.S.A.
2. Cowardice
3. Indicature
4. Pakistan and India war on September 6, 1965
5. Part of a turbine, I believe, but what's it called?

September 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 September 9

1. Paul Martin - Métis?
2. Swedish subsidy scheme for translations
3. Ease of starting a business
4. Avit
5. Map of Iraq

September 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 September 10

1. Do black africans and black Caribbeans have children out of wedlocks?
2. Geographical distribution of wearing shoes indoor or not
3. How can liberal democracy work in places with high racial and religious diversity?

September 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 September 11

1. Anti racism code word for antiwhite
2. Solution to a Problem
3. Isole del Triangolo Occidentale
4. People's Action Party
5. Why is Atlantic city a failure
6. Law: Meaning of 'docket' in administrative agencies of the executive branch

September 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 September 12

1. Name of specialized cannon shot English

September 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 September 13

1. Looking for sources on Halford Mackinder influence ove Nazi policies
2. Communism
3. Communism and Democracy
4. Equality Before The Law
5. Where can I find good arguments showing it is highly unlikely that we are created by nasty naturally-evolved 'gods'?
6. Role of a governor in amending the US constitution?
7. "Can god create" question
8. Learning a second instrument
9. Austrian + German + Dutch ethnicity

September 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 September 14

1. How to become lieutenant governor of California?

September 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 September 15

1. US Politics question
2. satellite uplink pornography
3. Could a US state declare its independence?

September 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 September 16

1. Monday's leadership spill

September 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 September 17

1. Chicago Style Tool
2. "if you want to be rich you need to go to hollywood and become an actor..."
3. Historical bondage
4. Why in divorce cases women are more likely to get custody?
5. Philome Obin
6. "Gertrude Svensen" in The Dinner Party

September 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 September 18

1. Tetragrammaton transliteration variants
2. Unreadable words in the Bible
3. Why haven't I heard fundamentalists say that minors shouldn't be taken to zoos?
4. London Missionary Society Choice of Location
5. Women's nipples

September 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 September 19

1. Last burial in Westminster Abbey
2. UK envelope and paper size circa 1920
3. What was the worth of a Czechoslovak koruna in 1993?
4. is the social rot since the 60's real?

September 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 September 20

1. Books set in British India

September 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 September 21

1. Do we have something as a spirit that gets cultivated?
2. Legal position of "hazing" in Canada (and the UK)
3. How can I point out a typo on http://www.bbc.co.uk/news?
4. Most damaged European city in WWII

September 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 September 22

1. Communism and Economic Inequality in China
2. Oil production in Hong Kong
3. Popular Culture (1960's Britain)

September 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 September 23

1. Simon de Montfort's Parliament
2. How many battleships?
3. subordinatephobia
4. Reliability issues
5. Degrees of independence
6. What is the philosophical view that asserts that humans defined the definitions of all that is?
7. WIN Watch
8. Oath in court in UK

September 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 September 25

1. a victim of racial violence, forgotten? Arthur Miller
2. what is this film???
3. Gathering of the Brig o' Turk

September 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 September 26

1. Mixed-race people and Anti-miscegenation at the same time

September 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 September 29

1. South African Hansard from the apartheid era
2. Welfare and Insurance
3. Insurance and Helping the Poor
4. What is the nationality of Toni Romiti ?
5. Did Canada have witch trails trials like Salem did?
6. Ghosts in Japan

September 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 September 30

1. Identify the play: Bird at the window means death
2. Anglophone/Francophonie
3. History of housing?