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August 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 August 1

  1. Sunita Williams and Islam
  2. Different Date of Deaths
  3. Figure on a title page
  4. POW Camp in Ried, Austria, WWII

August 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 August 2

  1. New Cold War?
  2. Is there any particular order to naming cathedrals and monasteries?

August 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 August 3

  1. Honorable vs. dishonorable discharge from the U. S. military
  2. WW1 Trenches

August 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 August 4

  1. Surveying spots
  2. Geographer of the United States
  3. Food covers: cultural aspects and Wikipedia coverage
  4. Metrodotus?
  5. how to wear hijab according to a hadith
  6. FAO Statistics

August 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 August 5

  1. Disability Studies textbooks
  2. Saints and particular virtues
  3. Yongli Emperor
  4. Languages of the UN

August 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 August 6

  1. How long should I wait to answer a potential landlord' email reply?
  2. Reasons why India is in such bad shape?

August 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 August 7

  1. FIFA's profits
  2. Bartenders not drinking alcohol
  3. Colorado/Virginia same-sex marriage

August 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 August 8

  1. Elizabeth Sinclair
  2. Yellow River

August 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 August 9

  1. Sikh boy's head bump
  2. English writer, "shown in his dotage for a fee"
  3. Presidential pardons in the USA; bizarre circumstances
  4. John Dominis Holt
  5. Books about Togo and Benin

August 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 August 10

  1. Illustration/printing technique
  2. Gaza "no-go" zone
  3. Hotel with a view of The Liffey in Dublin?
  4. Are there two Lefts?
  5. Fate of the German royal family
  6. Assassins' executioners
  7. List of epidemics

August 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 August 11

  1. That thing that makes us react
  2. Land descriptions
  3. Truth and Significance
  4. Married women's dress code in oppose to unmarried women

August 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 August 12

  1. Post-annexation maps of the Ukraine
  2. Mark Twain at the House of Commons
  3. western wall
  4. In what religion(s) or cultural system(s) is charging interest for a loan illegal?
  5. State of Israel
  6. A villein against a serf
  7. Benoni Richmond Davison
  8. A. B. Hayley

August 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 August 13

  1. Pilgrimage to Jerusalem
  2. demons in taiko
  3. Were American women allowed to bear arms?

August 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 August 14

  1. Divine Coincidence (property of New Keynesian models)
  2. A Level Results, Universities and UCAS Track
  3. Why are european jews white?
  4. What is the biggest current country with just no state (or just one state) and the smallest current country with more than one state?
  5. Andrés López Rayón Asimismo
  6. Michael Brown
  7. Non-living food
  8. Alex Young

August 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 August 15

  1. If Richard III and Henry Tudor had died...
  2. Grave offerings
  3. Accuracy of Jean Raspail's "The Camp of the Saints"
  4. Is there a Catholic or Protestant equivalent of a Protestant youth ministry?
  5. Other side of the Wailing Wall?

August 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 August 16

  1. Historical Royal "Bride Transfers"
  2. Edmund Tudor
  3. Demographics of police departments across the USA
  4. Does HUJ still have all rights to Einstein's likeness?
  5. Bicameral system from The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
  6. Archibald Bentley Beauman
  7. Jokes about nationalities not knowing the meaning of some word?
  8. Horerczy

August 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 August 17

  1. Old English Adjectives as substantives
  2. What is the difference between fascism and dictatorship
  3. Baker McKenzie article

August 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 August 18

  1. History of social equality
  2. Is there a difference between apostate and unchurched?
  3. Members of the British Royal family who dropped their German titles during WWI
  4. Jack Shaftoe
  5. Is there any place that use some sort of reverse of two round system, voting system?
  6. What're the cheapest useful amounts of a physical thing in the continental US (or Hawaii)?
  7. WHAT IF THE ROMAN EMPIRE NEVER FELL?

August 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 August 19

  1. Kawanankoa
  2. Revoking a pardon
  3. convert to Zoroastrianism
  4. Wade Hampton Census Area
  5. Ngm

August 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 August 20

  1. Non-Jews that live in Jewish communities must pick up grain?
  2. British princes of Hanover
  3. Titles Deprivation Act 1917
  4. Looking for an old russian short-story

August 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 August 21

  1. Hi, Author's names and how do I authenticate them for a local author?
  2. Yellow in van Gogh
  3. Legal questions

August 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 August 22

  1. MDA and Red Crescent

August 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 August 23

  1. Do Russian immigrants living in the United States have a different, neutral or no real viewpoint on Putin, 2014 Crimea annexation and the War in Donbass?
  2. Victoria
  3. Human behaviour and instincts

August 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 August 24

  1. Roman Catholicism after Pope Benedict XVI.
  2. Repeat years of study

August 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 August 25

  1. 1960s, racial civil rights movement, and Asian Americans
  2. Jessica Nelson North

August 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 August 26

  1. Different angles - different trumpets?
  2. John Chartres - Mystery Man of the Treaty

August 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 August 27

  1. Is it true that the Japanese can't innovate?
  2. Shakespeare on audiobook

August 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 August 28

  1. Church of Scientology in Egypt
  2. Arthur Henderson's Nobel medal (and Collingwood's hair)

August 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 August 29

  1. Black and Jew arguing
  2. Fall of the Roman Empire Time Period
  3. Humanities
  4. Exhaustive list + pictures of every single piece of art ever created by Picasso and Dalí

August 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 August 30

August 31[edit]

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