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May 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 1

  1. Western Culture and homosexuality
  2. Distant members of the Princely Family of Liechtenstein
  3. Tracing new world's black population

May 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 2

  1. "Sexual attraction"
  2. Moral Constructivism vs Semantic Meta-ethics
  3. US military things named after Confederates
  4. Did anyone die in the Tunguska event?
  5. mizrahi supporting and in left wing parties in Israel

May 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 3

  1. Engels' contribution to sociology
  2. Grenade-resistant

May 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 4

  1. Antonio Ferrante Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla
  2. Anti-Homosexual Novels
  3. Medieval shipyard
  4. Intermarriage in Israel
  5. Breton duke

May 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 5

  1. open university?
  2. US federal legislation vs. state legislation
  3. Photograph of a 19th-century Bosnian woman
  4. Earliest-born known human to be photographed

May 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 6

  1. Alien abduction insurance
  2. Global Employment in Automotive Driving?
  3. Link between watching porn and sexual violence
  4. Pokemon Species by Popularity

May 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 7

  1. The definition as "race"
  2. Allied war crimes during World War II
  3. Native separatism
  4. regular currency sales
  5. Explorers Maps
  6. Brontë sisters
  7. Peter de Vries and Frank Herbert

May 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 8

  1. has any country or city recently gotten up and moved?
  2. First President to visit a ballgame.
  3. Bitcoin-like currencies

May 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 9

  1. Why is there a liquor ban during the days around the 2013 Filipino presidential election?
  2. Ho Chi Minh
  3. unreferenced text in Taira no Tomomori
  4. John Buchan's family
  5. National statistics
  6. Businesses that support same sex marriage.

May 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 10

  1. Cæcilia Knudsdatter
  2. update on assistance
  3. London Geography
  4. English weight in Medieval times

May 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 11

  1. German Calvinist states
  2. French work, but I only know the Dutch title
  3. Are these coins original?
  4. Higher education in USA
  5. Paul the Apostle
  6. U.S. Nuking Targets in Japan in 1945
  7. Dowager consorts
  8. Nuclear targets in Germany

May 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 12

  1. Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark
  2. "Sound evidence for the existence of human differences in intelligence that parallel human differences in technology is lacking."
  3. Subspecies of homo sapiens
  4. Detail of history behind the Vilakithala Nair ?
  5. Jewish people not trying to gain new converts (contrary to Christians and Muslims)

May 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 13

  1. Most powerful country in WW2
  2. The Situation Room Photo
  3. Gubernatorial term limits California
  4. Native American cultures

May 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 14

  1. Regime Change Successfully Implemented by the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. During the Cold War
  2. Career
  3. How fast is a horse?
  4. Denmark's Failure
  5. does The Economist have a (relatively) new Editor?
  6. Colonel Sam Genius

May 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 15

  1. How did Shakespeare die?
  2. Oak Bay-Gordon Head
  3. Non-unified Germanic people
  4. What was the year and decade that had most amount number ones albums and songs?
  5. The Life and Death of George C. Parker
  6. Meet the Press
  7. Aboriginal Australians populations in the USA

May 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 16

  1. The name of Madame de Pompadours fortune teller
  2. The cry of the Belfast Telegraph seller (extinct)
  3. Dukes of Oldenburg

May 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 17

  1. Accuarcy of a story about anti-Vietnam War protest at White House
  2. Global Employment in Driving?
  3. Public school is different from private school but how?
  4. Record Regents
  5. Hi! question on relative of Jeffrey Dahmer
  6. HMS Illustrious (87) Officers
  7. middle east politics in the 1800s

May 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 18

  1. Catholic bishops and cathedrals
  2. Guy Medal in silver 1915
  3. Hipsters
  4. World War I is missing: which one should it go in, and why?
  5. Pocky

May 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 19

  1. Ronaldsway culture
  2. What time of day and date of the year would most people on earth be in darkness?
  3. St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna - unidentified detail
  4. Creating a communist society
  5. the Anamithim

May 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 20

  1. Alex Linder's middle name
  2. Efficacy of detachable faceplates for deterrence of car stereo theft
  3. Need help identifying piano work
  4. Evidence of consciousness is coming up independently with the the 'hard problem' - who has already said this?
  5. Maggie Q in Mission Impossible 3
  6. egalitarian opposition to lotteries
  7. Primogeniture

May 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 21

  1. Kansas Real Estate Commission - Statutory Authority History
  2. The folk explanations of the cause of Kennedy tragedies?
  3. Lincoln–Kennedy coincidences urban legend
  4. obscure term
  5. Hit-man services on the dark web - real?
  6. Entailment law England in first half of 19th century
  7. The Dam Busters, The Great Escape and suchlike
  8. Civil unions and equal marriage
  9. US-USSR Parliamentarian Conference, 1978
  10. 2nd, 3rd and 4th largest democracies
  11. Mahatma Gandhi's Bangladesh visit as part of Satyagraha district
  12. Baby Jesus
  13. Traditional Jews in Israel: Practice and values

May 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 22

  1. Earliest genocide or massacre in human history with solid archaeological evidences?
  2. UK Gay Marriage Bill
  3. 19th century Awards with a significant History
  4. War as a cause of death
  5. Buyers remorse
  6. Very basic question, but what are some complex answers, please?
  7. Candace Amanirenas
  8. Casteism in Bible
  9. Nobel Prize vs Copley Medal academic domination politics
  10. "Mr. Berg" from Norway

May 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 23

  1. Protestant Ranavalona
  2. Forced deathbed conversions
  3. Fried chicken and watermelon
  4. Essay on Jeffrey Dahmer - would it be biased?
  5. Western religions that are not so individualistic...
  6. Laws regarding abuse of free drink refills in cafes/fast food places?
  7. Fictional characters becoming real people
  8. French prisoners of war in Engeland

May 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 24

  1. How many times did Phil Esposito score against Tony Esposito?
  2. US service commitments in the 1960s
  3. Friday holidays
  4. Double jeopardy

May 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 25

  1. How to list instruments by range using wolfram alpha?
  2. Xin Zhui
  3. Odd number of police officers or detectives?
  4. is there a disability that...
  5. Middle names

May 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 26

  1. [Protected article] Inadequate, but not necessarily incorrect, summary of scholastic opinion
  2. Efficacy of detachable faceplates for deterrence of car stereo theft
  3. Weight
  4. Shi'ite suburbs in Beirut

May 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 27

  1. anti-communism
  2. Had there been any well-known debate between communism and anti-communism?
  3. When was Tang of Shang's reign?
  4. is Communist Party of India (Maoist) the actual name of the "Communist Party of India (Maoist)" party?
  5. Mexico City
  6. How do I identify the owners of a business?
  7. Am Shalem and Koah Lehashpia most votes gain from which place
  8. Otdia

May 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 28

  1. Otto von Kotzebue
  2. Do we have an article on required school readings?
  3. Aaron is not real at the Latin wikipedia
  4. Legally coaxing Julian Assange out of the embassy
  5. Battle of Bladders
  6. Who would be the most senior Democratic elected official in Oklahoma today?
  7. George I of Greece
  8. Cats in Oceania

May 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 29

  1. Marxism
  2. Record number of consorts by Chinese emperors
  3. Are earrings very important to Spanish women?
  4. UK House of Commons subcommittees
  5. Why long tail is important?
  6. The New York Times Book Review
  7. New Deal debate

May 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 30

  1. "Welfare quarantining" Schemes - effective? cost effective? ethical?
  2. European Union
  3. Could New World slaves buy things?
  4. A Sculpture by Augusta Savage
  5. Muhammad's successor debate in Islamic groups
  6. Name of law, sociological metric

May 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 31

  1. Liberal area in a city of a conservative Muslim nation
  2. Tie in a US presidential election - agreement in the Electoral college
  3. Kush
  4. food versus politics
  5. Destroying images of Atatürk