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July 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 July 1

1. Edward Lucett
2. Anthony T. Kahoʻohanohano
3. Economics of a phd part II
4. European Commission
5. A selection of hats
6. Enquiry about CBI
7. Ocherki perom i karandashom, iz krugosvetnogo plavaniya by Aleksei Vysheslavtsev
8. psychology of raising a rape child
9. Kawaihae Cave controversy
10. Pictures of famous paintings in people's houses/small galleries/studios before they were famous?

July 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 July 2

1. Public opinion shift on abortion in the U.S between 1995 and 1997
2. Don Quixote question
3. When did humans first start believing in any form of a deity?
4. Lion Gate
5. Lost Classical Music
6. Books on German war medals
7. Six heroic men
8. Does anyone know some detective novels of the Decadent Movement?
9. Portrait of Lady Diana Spencer by Isaac Whood
10. Nahl's Portrait of the Royal Family of Hawaii
11. Homework

July 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 July 3

1. James A. King
2. Israel Population Projections
3. Laprobe of a hack
4. Age and intelligence
5. Entry on "Emptiness"
6. Egypt Rallies
7. Qur'an and Torah belt? and equivalent to Jesusland
8. Bondage and Sexual Thoughts
9. Reports of signs specially written in Chinese that relates to impolite behaviour of Chinese?

July 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 July 4

1. Cephalitis in the 1890s
2. Communism, Nazism, fascism, and Thomism — is one of these things not like the others?
3. Interest and Capital gains
4. Godfather
5. What did people in the GDR think of the Stasi
6. field of psychology about the misconceptions of individual experience
7. Weekly and monthly magazines
8. The "Rough House" Case

July 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 July 5

1. How to look up criminal complaints?
2. Individualism and notions of justice
3. What became of the Anglo-Soviet Trade Agreement in the '20 an '30 ?
4. Diet Pepsi and Pepsi Max?
5. Egypt
6. Sociology
7. Alba --> Murray/Salmond
8. Man of La Mancha
9. Effects of fiction on crime and criminals

July 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 July 6

1. Rankings of British Monarchs
2. Famous editors on Wikipedia
3. What languages did Robespierre speak?
4. jack thompson
5. Prydain and Middle Earth

July 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 July 7

1. Charles Gordon Hopkins
2. Last supper vessels and utensils.
3. Western education culture
4. Question about Male Primogeniture and The Act of Settlement 1701
5. Differences between socialism and fascism
6. What philosophy is this?
7. Japan and Russia
8. Vehicle identification
9. Perforator

July 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 July 8

1. 1960s organization known as the Silver Dollar Group
2. Gaspar de Carvajal's account of the Amazon
3. legal issues about surveillance cams in the US
4. Diapers
5. Telugu speaking and Kannada speaking Muslims?
6. Political Philosophy and Semantic Metaethics
7. Prison Cell
8. Prison Cell (Osman's version)
9. Posthumous births in the Commonwealth Realms succession

July 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 July 9

1. Bodhi tree at Mahabodhi Temple = Tree of Knowledge according to Enoch?
2. Mrs. Tom Foley

July 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 July 10

1. Ambassador at large?
2. conspiracy to commit your own murder
3. Techniques in person centred therapy
4. Where might I purchase a particular antique chess piece?
5. Stirnerian Novel
6. Expert witness in US courts
7. Identifying picture on album cover

July 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 July 11

1. Stochocracy trial runs?
2. European Communities Commission members
3. Slaves per capita
4. Journalism
5. Better community development, development of community interest, delegation of roles etc within the context of a minecraft community
6. Tricksters in current pop culture
7. How do reverse mortgages screw people (when they do)?
8. Robert Louis Stevenson
9. City of Benares sinking

July 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 July 12

1. Mayans and Long Count
2. Co-Monarchs who were twins or triplets
3. Trademarks - Acquired distinctiveness
4. White genocide
5. Pomeranian architecture
6. The Palatinate
7. Historical Territorial Purchases

July 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 July 13

1. Rohingya - Rakhine crisis in Myanmar: casualty toll?
2. Arthur and Eleanor
3. Edward Snowden
4. ellis, georgia
5. Fürst Koháry

July 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 July 14

1. Have any Christian sects believed that the Virgin Mary was raped?
2. What is the patent granted for the Go programming language?
3. Ottoman ships for the New World
4. Fa'amatai in American Samoa
5. Manua monument
6. Pedro V of Portugal

July 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 July 15

1. Joel Brand's arrest
2. Racial/religious/cultural groups in countries
3. history of anti-slavery laws and beliefs
4. Apache
5. Insurance claim
6. Original lyrics of Mozart's canon "Bona nox"

July 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 July 16

1. BSD license question
2. Sociology in Stanford University
3. Pro-gay Christians?
4. Samaritan opinion of Jesus' parable about the good Samaritan?
5. Spanish equivalent of Sherlock Holmes and Arsene Lupin
6. Possible connection between depiction of bluish skin in Indian arts and Argyria?
7. Same-sex marriage in England and Wales
8. Hypothetical legal question

July 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 July 17

1. Looking for a reference for the article on Lyn Duff
2. Tui Manuʻa Elisala
3. Was Roscoe Filburn ordered to destroy his crop?
4. Smiling cobras
5. Etruscan tombs
6. Russian patronymic

July 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 July 18

1. Is the American government listening in on phone calls?
2. UN classification of South Sudan
3. Semi-introductory book on European history
4. Bible and surgery?
5. Nunc dimittis at funerals
6. Sociology and anti-realism

July 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 July 19

1. Sumner's Island, Honolulu Harbor
2. Question about internet law
3. Bednall Green
4. Robert Kennedy in the 1964 presidential election
5. Market timing by mutual funds
6. Church attendance in medieval Europe

July 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 July 20

1. Alfred Richard Gurrey, Jr or Sr.
2. Ustaše torture methods

July 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 July 21

1. the skeptical-empirical postclassical school of medicine in the eastern mediterranean
2. Differences between Spock and Data
3. On Serving People !
4. Science in Europe
5. Games/Sports/Fraternisation During Wartime
6. Non-Sunday Catholic masses
7. How would the UK choose a President?

July 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 July 22

1. Breaking a tie in the US House
2. Government
3. Is there an ERISA equivilent for public pensions?
4. Converting British/Commonwealth knighthood
5. Anything between Victory and Constitution?
6. Can titles of nobility be inherited by children born out of wedlock,
7. standard grunbaum furniture company - otto grunbaum and unrelated honesty.netsolutions and unrelated the sumerian kinglist
8. 18/7/2013 UN classification of South Sudan
9. Tui Manuʻa
10. Prussian Field Marshall Ludwig Graf Yorck von Wartengurg

July 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 July 23

1. Why do (most) Christians eat pork?
2. Small countries and large bank deposits
3. September 11 alternative scenario
4. Charles Giraud

July 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 July 24

1. Coolness
2. Federalist 21 - Massachussetts
3. Younger than one's Wikipedia article
4. Basilica of St Denis
5. Edward Snowden and Treason
6. What percentage of ancient literature survives?
7. England and Japan -- most polite?
8. High ranking Red Army officers punished in summer-automn 1941 after Operation Barbarossa began ?
9. Wikipedia article before first birthday
10. Hitler's blame shifts: Can you show us all the scenes where he blames everyone else for the problems that he started?
11. Changing a monarch's regnal name

July 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 July 25

1. Duke of Aosta
2. Do Muslims use morphine for medical purposes?
3. Pope's Head Alley
4. Christian headcovering
5. when did people realize the benefits to "arts and sciences" of granting a monopoly on inventions?
6. Archduke Johann Salvator of Austria
7. Issue with conflicting wikipedia entries, not sure where to report this:

July 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 July 26

1. British monarchy
2. Inheritance of courtesy titles in absolute primogeniture monarchies
3. Orientation of I Jing hexagrams
4. Spaniards and Italians - how did they come to look as they do ?
5. Theodore Bilbo and point of view

July 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 July 27

1. Do male religious ever take female names?
2. Philosophy - ends in themselves
3. Cage and Heinlein
4. Vegetarianism in history
5. Is it Dehumanizing
6. Concert big screen video delay
7. Ai khanoum in Afghanistan
8. calling someone by their last name
9. When did separate toilets for blacks and whites end in South Africa?
10. Caroline Ingalls
11. Is seppuku/hara kiri still common in modern Japan?

July 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 July 28

1. name
2. Israeli municipalities elections
3. Name of an island
4. Central capitals
5. Colonel Seth Warner

July 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 July 29

1. how tall is rodins thinker?
2. Non-mud huts in sub-Saharan Africa
3. Michel Bertrand
4. Longest serving consort in history
5. High prison population vs. low crime rate
6. Peggielene Bartels
7. Was it Freud or Jung who reported dreaming of assembling Vienna out of turds?
8. Explanation of phrase
9. Age of consent raised in China?
10. Carbine
11. Demographics of Carribean Islands
12. Sephardic conservative synagogue
13. The most powerful person in the world?

July 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 July 30

1. Edit counter
2. Sanitation for horse drawn vehicles in modern times
3. Duchies, Counties, Baronies
4. SPITFIRE PILOTS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
5. Size
6. Sesquipedelian government agencies
7. Typhoid Mary
8. Danish universities which offer bachelor of education
9. Strasbourg baker
10. Joséphine and Napoleon burial

July 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 July 31

1. Jesus' death on the cross an illusion?
2. Racism of Woodrow Wilson and Wikipedia policy on NPOV
3. What were the religious demographics of pre-communist China?
4. A. W. Emerson
5. Sandwich Island Gazette
6. Ghost gates
7. Iran-Contra hearings
8. Open slingshot bikinis
9. Who chooses the news?
10. Name the young adult sci-fi series!