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June 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 June 1

  1. difference between a large zit and a carbuncle
  2. America in the war
  3. Democracy in Ancient Greece
  4. What is the world's biggest museum?
  5. Theological significance of evolution-versus-creation
  6. Mysterious symbols

June 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 June 2

  1. Stores in Northampton, United Kingdom
  2. Sabbath in Tahiti
  3. Was Livia Drusilla wife of Roman emperor Augustus a mass murder and did she led her army into Rome to kill people?

June 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 June 3

  1. Personal income in the United States
  2. early humans
  3. Song name/artist
  4. Why did the Vikings set up a colony in America?
  5. Exact end of presidential terms before 1937
  6. Life time appointments of judges in higher courts only in the US
  7. Tagline/slogan without a trademark
  8. History of the # character
  9. Great-great-grandparents?

June 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 June 4

  1. Family Tree of Abrahamic Religions
  2. whose ablli occupied, were ous positions of life
  3. Speech from the throne
  4. French Polynesia
  5. Fate of liquor companies during prohibition in the US
  6. Print referencing for a London business, circa 1801-1810.
  7. A dichotomy in basic attitudes about laws and legality
  8. Fairness for All Marylanders Act of 2014
  9. Age of Japheth at time of death
  10. The EU

June 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 June 5

  1. Last Spanish monarch to wear a crown
  2. Spanish Royal Crown
  3. Donald Sterling suing the NBA
  4. Smoking in 1918
  5. 千家诗
  6. Nazi rape of Jewish women
  7. Was Holden in the The Catcher in the Rye in a mental hospital?
  8. Why did Detroit went down, when other American cities thrived?

June 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 June 6

  1. Second largest Somali population in the US?
  2. Is this a French military base?
  3. Destruction of the city of Caen

June 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 June 7

  1. Normandy
  2. Gifts of the King to President Ling-Kong
  3. Heads of state
  4. Bhumibol Adulyadej
  5. Holding a prisoner or a hostage for a long period of time
  6. What kind of Gothic-Blackletter writing style is this?

June 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 June 8

  1. Was there ever a colony in New England called West Hampshire Colony?
  2. Clerical wear
  3. The Princess's pregnancy = possible changes to the Constitution of Monaco?
  4. Chakana - fakelore?

June 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 June 9

  1. American Gothic (legends & folktales)
  2. Captain James Mackee
  3. Duke Kahanamoku siblings
  4. Thich Nhat Hanh & conflict resolution

June 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 June 10

  1. Why does China treat North Korea the way it does?
  2. Hitler and the seven dwarfs
  3. Does the U.S also keep a record as to what percentage of Latinos marry Latinos of nationalities different from their own?
  4. Why do so many cultures around the world hate the Jews?
  5. Luke Allan -the author (actually William Lacy Amy)
  6. Time Warner and Warner Brothers

June 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 June 11

  1. When will China make Guangdong, an all agricultural and tourist province like Hainan?
  2. RMS Titanic and the White Star Line

June 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 June 12

  1. impoverish royals
  2. Year of Consul A and Consul B
  3. Does ‘anti‐Latinism’ exist?
  4. Why are pastors called "reverend" instead of "doctor"?
  5. Orthodox cathedral identification
  6. Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria
  7. Nigeria = world's scam headquarters?
  8. What to call the Republican right and left
  9. children's books

June 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 June 13

  1. US Navy or Marines General Orders for Sentries question
  2. 1883 Kalakaua Proclamation
  3. inventor
  4. Who got married

June 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 June 14

  1. Kalakaua and Grant
  2. Height of Hawaiian Monarchs
  3. Source conflict: Number of Japanese in Dublin, Ohio
  4. Rape during wartime
  5. Reasoning systems (except from Logic)

June 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 June 15

  1. Prince of Denmark
  2. Sophia Dorothea of Celle
  3. Looking for funny law tutorial situations
  4. Opposition leaders of Rhodesia

June 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 June 16

  1. Industrial Edens
  2. How did Europeans manage to convert many people to Christianity in pre-modern times?

June 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 June 17

  1. Why do Guyana, Suriname & French Guiana have smaller populations?
  2. Edward Teller, giving bomb secrets to Israel, security clearance, prosecution?
  3. Who is Arabic?

June 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 June 18

  1. J. Ewing
  2. John McLaughlin, MSNBC
  3. Male Naming Order
  4. Slovakia/Slovenia
  5. Information storage

June 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 June 19

  1. Tuha'a Pae
  2. Medieval German equivalent

June 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 June 20

  1. Maoism before Mao
  2. US primary elections in the 19th and early 20th century for other offices than President
  3. Engagement photographs

June 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 June 21

  1. Manuella Kalili
  2. Coronation vs. enthronement
  3. Copyright
  4. Not A Separate Peace
  5. SC justice recusal
  6. Finding half-remembered books
  7. How does ISIS know how to use sophisticated weapons they capture?
  8. Free markets and efficiency -- any economists here?

June 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 June 22

  1. Shadows in Flight download link
  2. A map of the Hawaiian Islands according to the latest surveys, 1838
  3. British Abdication
  4. Architectural terminology (church)
  5. Mary Higgins Clark-Mother Salut book?

June 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 June 23

  1. NHS Constitution
  2. Why does Macbeth succeed King Duncan in Macbeth
  3. A nation of pirates
  4. People who leave the Jehovah's Witness denomination and become Atheists
  5. OSHA inspections
  6. How tough is Cthulhu?
  7. Massive differences in prices for the same item, the psychological aspect

June 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 June 24

  1. Democracy as utilitarian
  2. Paying after the tax dead line April 15
  3. Soviet anthem
  4. Cities big and small

June 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 June 25

  1. Harvard referencing the Mahele Book
  2. Paradox of a Democracy dissolving itself into dictatorship
  3. Purchasing a bill or bill of exchange
  4. Time after the Buddhist crisis in South Vietnam
  5. About holdouts and vulture funds
  6. Photocopy of dollar bills
  7. Osage reservation
  8. Double round "Hoover" collar

June 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 June 26

  1. Longest series of prenominals
  2. Contacting Kate
  3. Looking for the name of a fallacy

June 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 June 27

  1. Massachusetts newspaper
  2. Citation styles

June 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 June 28

  1. Christian propaganda books
  2. Evelyn Verrasztó sources
  3. Is Juncker a Junker?

June 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 June 29

  1. Reformatting and expanding the List of Presidents of Venezuela