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April 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 1

  1. Army and Navy Rank Insignia
  2. Is it Academically Acceptable to Make Your Own Qualitative Research Method Based on Existing Ones?
  3. Bicorne de l'Académie française
  4. How do I solve this problem on fair pricing of shares?
  5. Apparently this "Jenny N.E. Dotz" was a prominent acting figure of some sort, but why do we not have her?
  6. Why are there still OLD people in OLD pictures?

April 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 2

  1. Far-right
  2. Lusitania
  3. Where will I find a safe haven from the coming economic collapse?
  4. Is there a third way of measuring and reward the value of work?
  5. Claims in "18 Signs of High Emotional Intelligence"
  6. Sports which women excel over men
  7. Do humans have a "natural habitat"?

April 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 3

  1. Why is there no Ferdinand II of Castile?
  2. Retention of Flag after Restoration
  3. Jehovah's Witnesses and the cross (or in their case, the stake)
  4. General Election - Voting
  5. Abbreviations in Latin missal
  6. Is Rhetorical Analysis/ Criticism Applicable to Social Science Research?
  7. Costa Concordia and Germanwings disaster insurance
  8. words printed on chicken

April 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 4

  1. Is anti-positivism against the mathematical formalization of the social sciences?
  2. Art Deco relief on a house in Bucharest

April 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 5

  1. Synchronized periods
  2. Civilization
  3. Germans
  4. In public online

April 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 6

  1. Religious deaths
  2. The Rape of Nanking
  3. Valuable natural resources
  4. How far apart were English towns and fiefs in the early 19th century?
  5. Which countries or cities are using biodegradable shopping bags?
  6. Chinese (PRC) law

April 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 7

  1. Friend zone
  2. Central Asia and Eastern Europe
  3. What percentage of the total male population have been convicted of a crime? Is the number lower for women?
  4. "Animals live in a hell of which mankind are the devils."
  5. Why isn't the United States part of the Commonwealth of Nations?
  6. Does the christian bible give any advice on the issue of cohabiting but not marrying?

April 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 8

  1. Stereotype
  2. Associate monarchs
  3. Money question

April 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 9

  1. Is the life insurance contract toast?
  2. Turkmen
  3. Cielito Lindo
  4. How do gays and lesbians become couples?
  5. Political campaigns
  6. Election voting in the uk

April 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 10

  1. David Cameron question
  2. What are the dropout rates of school children in Guangdong and other provinces in China?
  3. A question for territorial evolution
  4. Why does it matter if Jesus was married or not?
  5. Jail holding cells in the 1930s/20s?
  6. Basic cookbook written in Italian language

April 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 11

  1. Hume on EM spectrum
  2. Equestrian statues with female riders
  3. Vintage article by Prof. Toumanoff
  4. Do deaf people install telephones in their homes?
  5. 7 days
  6. Driving

April 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 12

  1. Contingency money
  2. Is a MOOC “degree” worth putting on your resume?
  3. Alexandra Rose Day

April 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 13

  1. "Walk of Shame" song
  2. Jehovah's Witnesses bible studies
  3. pruning the dynasty
  4. Paying employees in hard currency
  5. Recording of FDR speaking German?

April 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 14

  1. Equivalents to Ivy League, Oxford and Cambridge Universities
  2. Buckingham Palace
  3. Website for DDB Needham Life Style Surveys?
  4. Daily E-mail News Briefs

April 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 15

  1. Who uses the high hardness pencils?

April 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 16

  1. Non-Roman Catholics in the UK

April 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 17

  1. Philosophical question
  2. Three Bible questions

April 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 18

  1. Why do colleges charge prospective students just for applying?
  2. handwriting exercise in different languages
  3. European Handwriting
  4. Recording devices in courts
  5. Women in Love
  6. Ibn Battuta portrait

April 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 19

  1. travelling in the Regency period
  2. 1990s Childrens Book
  3. Homeless people in America
  4. State Pension
  5. Middle Ages
  6. Iraqi military medal?
  7. Grand Duchess Marie-Adélaïde and the Germans in 1914
  8. UK general election

April 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 20

  1. US Police Statistics
  2. Soviet Union-Vietnam mutual defense treaty
  3. Literature: Deliverance (novel)
  4. Hitler and the Antichrist
  5. What does "half-cent sales tax" means?
  6. Word for "acorns turning to ducks"
  7. Biggest artic expedition

April 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 21

  1. Fingerprints on Driver's Licenses
  2. Why don't Lutherans make the sign of the cross the norm?
  3. Is there a male equivalent to "Fallen Women"?
  4. Reading the Epic of Gilgamesh

April 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 22

  1. Maps
  2. Nicaraguan civil war
  3. A good critical history or two of early Islam along the lines of Biblical criticism

April 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 23

  1. Louis XV of France and George I of Great Britain
  2. Three supreme gods
  3. US Civil War
  4. an icebox in the Andes
  5. Is box office revenue for a film before interest, overhead, and taxes?
  6. Religions/denominations which do not disclose membership statistics/number of adherents
  7. Major-General Sir Frederick Hallett
  8. Comcast/TWC merger bombs, good or bad for CCV?

April 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 24

  1. Is a first professional degree in Juris Doctor equivalent to an advanced bachelor’s degree?
  2. transcribing a musical score from hearing only
  3. New York and Appleton's

April 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 25

  1. Art object identification
  2. Dignity, Glory & Honour
  3. Cheshire and Flintshire historic placenames

April 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 26

  1. Lion in symbolism
  2. India and Mount Everest

April 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 27

  1. Why did the British transport convicts to Australia but not to Canada?
  2. God, the Devil, Opposite and Equal
  3. Cheap vs. expensive cola
  4. Exchange member & broker
  5. Armed Policing in England & Wales

April 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 29

  1. Have street gangs ever been recruited to help enforce a curfew before?
  2. Use of police firearms in Northern Ireland
  3. Where does the food go?
  4. Is SES a predictor of the hookup culture?
  5. Edith of Wessex

April 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 30

  1. Revenge and Punishment
  2. Good Without God