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May 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 May 1

  1. Weh Antiok Khusrau
  2. Countries that recognized the old Republic of China

May 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 May 2

  1. Where is "Yew Court" in Trinity College, Cambridge?
  2. A book called 'Seera'

May 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 May 3

  1. Did Gandhi observe a strict vow of silence every Monday?
  2. The sum of all human knowledge before 300 AD?
  3. Human attention to the different part of a person

May 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 May 5

  1. Who may be the first one to use the term "gender power gap?
  2. Jesus's sisters
  3. Walker Texas Ranger
  4. Robespierre
  5. What do the Chinese think of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

May 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 May 6

  1. Prime Minister with non-English accent

May 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 May 7

  1. Non-English Royal family members

May 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 May 8

  1. Why does Taobao pay people to shake their phones?
  2. Looking for an article on the Carol Burnett/Trump civil case
  3. Did anyone survive the Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia?

May 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 May 9

  1. Englishman in 1776 vs. Russian man in 1914
  2. Boshin War

May 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 May 10

  1. German military item
  2. Coronation of the British Monarch
  3. Do Northeast Indians have Chinese and Nepalese ancestry?

May 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 May 12

  1. Ravaillac and Damiens
  2. Inca plant dispersal success story
  3. Westminster Abbey

May 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 May 13

  1. Argue like you're right, listen like you're wrong
  2. Case Closed

May 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 May 15

  1. Political assassinations in New Zealand
  2. Handley Page Hampden
  3. Fairness in publishing crime rates
  4. Guinevere and Iseult
  5. What % of cars bought in USA bought as whole, and what % using loans?

May 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 May 16

  1. U.K., Which software filters this news report talking about?
  2. U.K., help understand a confusing news report

May 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 May 17

  1. Endonym of South Africa?

May 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 May 18

  1. The Gyges, Lord of the Ring?
  2. Apollo 2 cancellation
  3. Rhyme scheme with apostrophes

May 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 May 19

  1. did Russia offered (or planned to offer) Liechtenstein, the state of Alaska?
  2. Which of Max Pemberton's mystery challenges were taken up?
  3. St. Louis, Missouri - Union or Confedrate?

May 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 May 20

  1. The Ku Klux Klan and religion
  2. Dilbert.com

May 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 May 21

  1. Does Amnesty International ever expel ordinary members?
  2. Hanover
  3. Why do Americans and British people sound different?

May 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 May 23

  1. US Cabinet members dying in office?

May 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 May 24

  1. Movie rating system
  2. William Beale

May 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 May 25

  1. A city containing a city?
  2. "Reverse" of the criterion of embarrassment
  3. what is the
  4. Are Turkish marketplace and neighbourhood guards (Çarşı ve mahalle bekçileri) the same unit as night eagles (gece kartalları)?

May 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 May 26

  1. Halide Edib Adıvar and Gandhism
  2. Spanish exploration of the Pacific

May 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 May 27

  1. Holiday on Chinese calendar for May 26, 2023
  2. Definition of North and South Atlantic

May 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 May 28

  1. Last U.S. troop deployments Korean War
  2. How related are Finns and East Asians?
  3. Jeanne Calment

May 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 May 29

  1. Origin of sexagesimal timekeeping
  2. Could Habiru have traveled by ship?
  3. Nonsense or connection?
  4. Küfeci

May 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 May 30

  1. l’Unite in Brussels Belgium, 1939ish
  2. Special ITU one-letter country codes
  3. Bible
  4. Zorro (TV series 1957)
  5. Happy Memorial Day
  6. Violence against international students in China