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August 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 1

  1. Tom Sawyer and the Public Domain
  2. why don't I hear much about the Byzantines
  3. Polish złoty in 1974
  4. Birth control and poor people

August 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 2

  1. A 1967 gay wedding in the Netherlands
  2. Is preferred room tempersture considered a culturally acquired or innate biological trait?
  3. Role of a Senior Watch Officer in a shore establishment?

August 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 3

  1. Yellow things and sexual attitudes in Chinese culture
  2. How can Pip NOT know his own sister's name?
  3. Cheese, tofu, and geography
  4. Unusual given names
  5. Guayaquil Conference
  6. Has anyone with a diplomatic visa ever tried to use it to become an illegal immigrant?
  7. Is the U.S. allowing Syrian Muslims but not Syrian Christians to immigrate? Why?
  8. Custody battles lost by both parents

August 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 4

  1. J W Armstrong who professed urine therapy
  2. Differences in transport disciplines
  3. Genghis Khan and crosscontinental migration?
  4. Battlefield anecdote
  5. Data on how people decide on moral scenarios

August 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 5

  1. Program management
  2. Where was Clara Lemlich born?

August 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 7

  1. Primary language of Capetian Angevins in Naples, Hungary and Poland?
  2. Population without double counting

August 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 8

  1. Lady Violet
  2. Baronetcies of Ireland
  3. Johnson versus nobody
  4. Why is there such a stigma against suicide?
  5. Is a cheeseburger with soy cheese and tofu bacon kosher?
  6. Is there a Wikipedia article about what happens when people don't do what God says?
  7. philosophy and propaganda
  8. George Washington Carver

August 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 9

  1. Genetic impact of Germanic people on Spain,Portugal and France

August 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 10

  1. How common is the name ‘Карл’ (Karl) in Russia?
  2. Name of European scientist in 18th or 19th century with teenage wife?
  3. Big dresses and ability to move
  4. Looking for some good quotes.
  5. Why did so many movements happen during the 60s?
  6. Why did San Francisco become the centre of the 1960s counterculture?
  7. Crime and violence in popular entertainment
  8. Name of Italian opera?

August 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 11

  1. Military meaning of PMTU

August 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 12

  1. Number of Hong Kong SAR passport holders
  2. What became of the Armenian town of Abaraner?
  3. Creationism

August 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 13

  1. Nuclear first strikes *near* countries
  2. Reliability of the background of Child 44 (film)
  3. Is Guanyin interpreted as "patron saint" or "deity" by Westerners?
  4. Charlottesville + racism

August 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 14

  1. Civil rights investigation
  2. Deposits on inssured accounts
  3. Taxes on deposit interst savings held by foreigners in the United States
  4. Croatia joining the Eurozone - whose interest is it in?

August 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 15

  1. Why don't people in England speak a Romance language?
  2. Mary, Mother of Jesus
  3. District of Columbia Authority

August 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 16

  1. Historical events and film/sound
  2. Men with "1 WEEK" signs
  3. Resource for Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight)
  4. White men's fascination with the sex life of African Americans

August 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 17

  1. Are Christianity and Islam types of Judaism?
  2. US bases in PRC and ROC
  3. Parsees and Pharisees
  4. Unite the Right rally Model Year of Car?

August 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 18

  1. "detachment" and "non-judicial punishment" in US Navy
  2. Orwellian

August 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 19

  1. Free France vs French Republic
  2. Iconic symbols of the South (unrelated to the Confederacy)
  3. John Wadham (died 1412)
  4. Would they have turned the key?

August 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 20

  1. Montreux Convention
  2. Russians are like us
  3. Japanese work ethic
  4. Marghi
  5. Operation Breakthrough

August 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 21

  1. Leaders at China's 1949 Founding
  2. Are DC laws subject to presidential pardons?
  3. Yin and Yang

August 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 22

  1. PARTINERSHIP
  2. Canadian equivalent of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution

August 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 23

  1. What is the name of the Sci-Fi book where Earth's continents are planets
  2. Politicians at Third GECF summit
  3. Were there things besides US road signs that switched to metric/"bilingual" then "regressed"?

August 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 24

  1. Key Art - please let me know
  2. Historical unemployed
  3. Effectiveness of prostitution law in Sweden
  4. heart health awareness and U.S. Olympic athletes
  5. UK Transport industry complexity

August 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 25

  1. COIN/atrocity
  2. Finding out a reddit user's personal identity
  3. Abolishing slavery in the US

August 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 27

  1. Did the Muslim Arabs have plumbing
  2. Pattern drafting : "Downton Abbey" style maid's apron.
  3. Confectioners manuals referenced in BBC program "The Sweet Makers".
  4. Who was Saint Therotus?
  5. How did the process of reincarnation according to some of the early Christians that believed in it?
  6. Subject and author with similar names

August 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 28

  1. Christian missionaries in Vietnam in the 19th century
  2. Question about OSHA inspectors (not law related)
  3. Cost of the British succession
  4. How much do poets earn?
  5. James Tiptree and W.T. Tyler
  6. Flint residents using lake water
  7. Identify this painting and photo?

August 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 29

  1. Unique Connections Between `Revelation` and Another Author's Corpus
  2. Border control and criminal record
  3. 10 year multiple-entry Chinese visa

August 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 30

  1. Was there any culture where punching and/or wrestling was uncommon?
  2. Philomé Obin

August 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 31

  1. President Trump's pardon of Sheriff Joe Arpaio
  2. The word "wherefore" in Shakespeare
  3. Philosophy Institute identification on Sergio Cotta article.