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August 1

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1. Is Boris putting children at risk?
2. What would happen if some country printed money to pay all his debt under those very specific condintions?
3. Do Social Security Applications exist online for people who died in 2010?
4. belief in water one's reflection

August 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 2

1. Powers of an outgoing US President

August 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 3

1. The eradication of memories of the Great War
2. Does anyone ever found a way to solve his own Dunning–Kruger effect?

August 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 4

1. Genre of fiction dealing with European visits to Africa.
2. When was peak women's clothing modesty?
3. Dr Livingstone I presume?

August 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 5

1. What happens if there are delays in determining the winner in the USA 2020 Presidential elections?
2. Achaemenid historians
3. Is there a place where I can conduct Human subject research without regulations?
4. Short Story Collection by Japanese Author

August 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 6

1. Italy America assistance
2. Why do so many Muslim countries hate Israel so much?
3. Gin with onions

August 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 7

1. Which historical countries have had the highest relative prisoner population?
2. The penultimate line in Robert Ludlum's "The Holcroft Covenant"

August 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 8

1. Very large index fund investment
2. cheerleaders in the medical field

August 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 9

1. Economic effects of CFA franc on former French colonies in sub-saharan Africa?

August 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 10

1. Nordic perfection?
2. In the USA, does an Acting President have the same powers as the President?
3. Klan bible

August 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 11

1. Question about Wikipedia: articles that are rarely edited
2. Gem family, solicitors, of Birmingham, England
3. Mugshot
4. Stark's expedition to measure seawater gold
5. Executive orders in practice - limited to those binding by law?
6. Why do Southern U.S. schools start so early?

August 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 12

1. Subtitle of the Smyth Report
2. 300 Spartans in a battle to the death (not the really famous guys)
3. If a US state constitutional provision gets declared unconstitutional but a US state refuses to formally expunge this provision from its constitution, can it permanently remain there but simply always be unenforceable?

August 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 13

1. Friendly fire between Americans or Hessians during the American Revolution
2. Quote source
3. Vice President of Kamala Harris
4. Is Boris putting children at risk?

August 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 14

1. Did any real fighting shields look like US highway shields?
2. Chess clock increments
3. Do Cadet Nurses qualify?

August 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 16

1. Wearing an elephant scalp
2. Who was R. SAUERWALD?

August 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 17

1. State leaders continuously reelected in fair elections
2. What is considered best by mainstream economists deflation (NOT hyperdeflation) or Hyperinflation?

August 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 18

1. Humans are bad at risk
2. Why wasn't outsourcing a thing before the late 20th century?

August 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 19

1. Request for info on Polish noms-de-guerre
2. The flag on "flag of Belarus" is wrong.

August 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 21

1. Hunter-gatherer vs. farmer evolutionary psychology
2. US election night concessions

August 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 22

1. An Asian custom
2. Bude-Light in Trafalgar Square

August 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 23

1. Legality of secretly recording private conversations

August 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 26

1. Police killings increase in the US
2. Earworm-like phenomenon

August 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 27

1. Historical evidence of Apostles
2. home front casualties during WWII

August 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 28

1. Swatis (Pashtun tribe)

August 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 30

1. Volhynia as an Austro-Hungarian war aim during World War I?
2. They must have had a really strong union: they only worked for a week.
3. Miracles in post-second-temple Judaism?
4. Queen mother
5. How did they decide Japan occupation of Korea, North Mariana etc bad, "Norther Marianas" and almost Taiwan good?
6. Is the Edict of Expulsion still extant
7. Reichsflagge

August 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 31

1. Bruce Angrave's birth date
2. Style's Judges