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June 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 June 1

  1. Are things getting better or worse?
  2. Fugu
  3. juries
  4. Did the French Revolution give power to the people?
  5. What is this form of time notation?
  6. Why was Omoo named so?

June 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 June 2

  1. German neutrality
  2. Religion in Northumberland
  3. Political system that runs wikipedia
  4. Sikhism - the act of worship and the term for the location
  5. How did American conservatism become associated with the Republican party?
  6. Ancient Visigothic families in Iberia
  7. Love Canal

June 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 June 3

  1. According to the Bible, from where will the anti-Christ hail?
  2. File:Sviatoslav oseledec.jpg
  3. A boy and his horse
  4. Candace Amanirenas
  5. Bar Culture
  6. North Korean Embassy
  7. know about gotra...
  8. Indecent exposure in Victorian times
  9. Divine Accommodation/Condescension in Orthodox Judaism
  10. Femnism in Jewish/Hebrew culture
  11. hydrogen nuclear tests on enewetak islands

June 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 June 4

  1. Department of Mathematics and Mechanics pure Russian?
  2. Name of a particular artist
  3. Sahara
  4. Background - Before UK Children Act 1989?
  5. Offertory plates
  6. King of Ternacle

June 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 June 5

  1. Education of the Kingdom of Hawaii
  2. Citizenship status of Missionary families in the Kingdom of Hawaii (pre 1893)
  3. Myth question did Aphrodite her girdle as a shield for King Anchises and for adultery as well?
  4. Victoria Pomare
  5. Name of a US Greek Orthodox diocese
  6. Eastern Orthodox Church schools

June 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 June 6

  1. John Williams (missionary)
  2. The House Of Pride And Other Tales Of Hawaii

June 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 June 7

  1. Historical Precedent For A Diplomatic Action
  2. Same-sex marriage ratios
  3. Workplace culture and cya
  4. 19th century Chinese decline
  5. Charles Tennyson Turner
  6. Is there only one hospital and school in Monaco?

June 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 June 8

  1. Globalization and anti-globalization
  2. Margot Frank's Diary
  3. Faaa Church from 1852
  4. LGAs in South Australia
  5. Sportspeople without coach
  6. Want to know about Nationalism

June 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 June 9

  1. American virtuosity
  2. Box with diagonal line = cavalry

June 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 June 10

  1. Causes of death
  2. Contacting university lecturers
  3. Charlemagne's hair length
  4. Copyright on a film made from a biography
  5. Revoke of Richard Nixons resignation
  6. Ancient Somali script
  7. Book of John
  8. A photo of Aino Kuusinen , please !
  9. Economics
  10. St. Edward's Crown

June 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 June 11

  1. Is Wikipedia the only non-commercial website in Top 100 most popular websites?
  2. Famous artist/writer who criticized his peers about their need to have an opinion of every question of our time, and to tell the world about it
  3. Interception in national airspace for extradition
  4. Albert VII, Archduke of Austria and Isabella Clara Eugenia
  5. How many knighted/damed yearly in Britain?
  6. 14 & 18 party alliance in Bangladesh
  7. Why are people buying books that are free?

June 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 June 12

  1. Kamehameha III's Funeral
  2. Rt Rev Paul Williams, Bishop of Kensington
  3. Ottoman isolation from European economy
  4. Airplane question.
  5. Shintō funeral
  6. Which school exams did Michael Gove sit?
  7. Is there a serious projection of demographical development of the US by state?
  8. Christian apologetics
  9. what officer shot people dead on the Titanic??

June 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 June 13

  1. Translations of the Roman missal
  2. Edgar Allan Poe mystery
  3. The man with the flying horse
  4. About World War I
  5. Obituary
  6. What's the difference between a marine biologist and an oceanographer?
  7. Medieval christian iconography, hand gesture
  8. First Congress district maps
  9. DOMA, the flip side

June 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 June 14

  1. Three-legged stool trick
  2. Recent Hereditary peerages

June 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 June 15

  1. When were birth records/certificates introduced in Romania?
  2. Arab parties participating in coalition gov't Israel
  3. dystopian fiction trilogy
  4. The American South
  5. Albert Pierce Taylor
  6. Official US response to Soyuz 11
  7. What was the most used tech on medieval era?

June 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 June 16

  1. Does anybody know the date of the 2014 British Titanic Society Convention?
  2. Was every other man in Tudor England named Thomas?
  3. Liliuokalani
  4. Prince who died after a prostitute threw acid in his face
  5. Gender bending in Irish folk songs
  6. Another Titanic question, sorry if it bothers
  7. Evangelism and missionary work, Catholic and Orthodox
  8. days of the week
  9. :File:Our Lady of Peace Cathedral, Honolulu, 1843.jpg

June 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 June 17

  1. Is it possible to travel to Oceania via ship (not cruisers) just to arrive and stay in that country?
  2. Sir 'Chips'?
  3. Sophia Cracroft and Lady Franklin

June 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 June 18

  1. Intrinsic value
  2. Vitruvian pose
  3. what's to stop creation of a second Israel
  4. Gojong
  5. hamid karzai departure from afhganistan

June 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 June 19

  1. historic poster
  2. Nahl's Portrait of the Royal Family of Hawaii
  3. What has happened to the Canaanites?
  4. Difference between a Curriculum Vitae and a Résumé?
  5. Conservative regions in Canada where immigrants don't want to go after migrating to Canada
  6. Did Mark Zuckerberg have to get a zoning permit to operate a business from his dorm room at Harvard?
  7. Opposition-held towns in Russia

June 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 June 20

  1. Communion wine
  2. A line from Departed (movie)

June 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 June 21

  1. Kilauea like volcanoes in the Pacific
  2. Peter Wayne
  3. Music question
  4. Feel boss
  5. King vs Queen
  6. World Jewish population without Holocaust
  7. How far from Chinese territory, is the closest US military base to Chinese territory?
  8. John Adams Whipple

June 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 June 22

  1. Foreign coin ID
  2. Is Python official documentation free to use under the Python License?
  3. How important and reliable is the Vulgate?
  4. Charles Leander Weed in Hawaii
  5. Edward Bulwer-Lytton separation?
  6. Has there ever been a song made about the Somalian Flag?
  7. Older royal woman and her younger husband
  8. Prince of Denmark'

June 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 June 23

  1. Where did Jews come from before the Exodus?
  2. What was the economic point of alchemy?
  3. Manuel Joaquim Garcia de Braganca or :es:Manuel Joaquín Álvarez de Toledo
  4. Catholic Priest clothes
  5. Uniform?
  6. A photo of Boris Gudz , please
  7. Mistake on Wikipedia

June 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 June 24

  1. US executive order number
  2. Franco-Spanish Union's language
  3. Pain & suffering?
  4. Syria vs USA
  5. Economics textbook for high school
  6. Why are Christian hymns so slow, classical, and melodic?

June 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 June 25

  1. Please explain the reasoning behind the divorce statistics in the country with the most, and the least, divorces.
  2. Congressional Visit to Liliuokalani
  3. Isaac Asimov writing during an interview

June 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 June 26

  1. Mandela vs Rhodes
  2. Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson
  3. "Apekdunomi"
  4. Being caught with an underage prostitute
  5. Budget deficit and cuts
  6. Presidential changes of heart
  7. Image of a musician
  8. Henry Bond Restarick

June 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 June 27

  1. Supreme court - correlation between member's votes
  2. Checking standing to sue in the Supreme Court
  3. "Evangelical Christian Subculture"
  4. Holy Sonnet 10
  5. Books recommendations for internalizing what you learn
  6. Hussein bin Abdullah, Crown Prince of Jordan
  7. Books written by pioneers of Industrial Revolution
  8. Childbirth Changed

June 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 June 28

  1. Guido Reni, Beatrice
  2. Looking for a word like overcapitalisation
  3. Were Austro-Hungarian officers not allowed to marry commoners?
  4. Shakespearean English to modern English translation
  5. Zombie (fictional)
  6. Billy the Kid
  7. The European Economic Area: Farms, Fish and Tax

June 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 June 29

  1. Nigel Farage quote source wanted
  2. Question about "Nothing to hide argument" - Who are the proponents?
  3. Mary, Queen of Scots requested burial
  4. American politician who worked the jobs of his constituents, in the 1980s
  5. Taxes
  6. What's the average time a Japanese death row inmate spends on death row?
  7. Virtue ethics compared to deontological ethics

June 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 June 30

  1. Catholic in Scotland during Mary, Queen of Scots
  2. Closest named thing to this
  3. Relevance of Whittaker Chambers remark
  4. Why Wikipedia delete the part who says Albanian first kingdom is created in 200bc from the illyrians?
  5. American education culture