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April 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 1

  1. Can anyone get a better, original source for the newly discovered Etruscan-language slab?
  2. Multiple sources say different things, what to do?
  3. What happened to London in 1784?
  4. People who have served in all three branches of a U.S. state government
  5. City as center of affluence or poverty
  6. Research origin of a signet fingerring or seal

April 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 2

  1. Augustus II the Strong
  2. President of the United States and the 22nd amendment to the Constitution
  3. Named yellow
  4. Persons who held a public office in two different countries

April 3

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  1. Art work featured on the TV show "The Catch"

April 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 4

  1. Why did the abolition of slavery prove so difficult and divisive?
  2. "First official census of England"?
  3. Hillary Clinton and Benghazi

April 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 5

  1. Unpledged
  2. Cyprus peace process and international arms sales
  3. Geo coors

April 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 6

  1. Mesoamerican trade
  2. W.A.C.A. 29a-A50
  3. Syrett's "The Royal Navy in European Waters During the American Revolutionary War"

April 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 7

  1. Saul Krugman
  2. "And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself."
  3. Text in patents that has expired
  4. British pound sterling

April 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 8

  1. adagio in g minor instrumentation
  2. Two-on-one duels?
  3. Did feudalism exist in early 19th century Britain?
  4. Are there health insurance companies in Britain?
  5. Plugged nickel
  6. Forelocks
  7. One of the notable Portals? Justin Welby's mother

April 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 9

  1. Male heterosexual prostitution

April 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 10

  1. Who was the Spanish explorer "Francisco Lazcano", and why doesn't he have a Wikipedia article?
  2. Identyfing Railway Stations
  3. Schutzstaffel "ᛋᛋ"
  4. Is the mountain in the L.L.Bean logo a specific mountain?

April 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 11

  1. Saddam Hussein
  2. What was the political party composition of Congress when Obamacare (Affordable Care Act) was passed?
  3. Alaplı,Ereğli and surrounding areas

April 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 12

  1. Heads of government who couldn't occupy their official residence
  2. Is gender a social construct?
  3. Why do British monarchs nowadays just marry their own people?
  4. Virtue signalling
  5. Who represented the USA government at the Tear Drop Memorial Ceremony in 2006? (Obama wasn't President then)
  6. Why would a pastor solemnize a marriage between a Catholic and Protestant?

April 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 13

  1. Are there any online public records or databases for birth dates and death dates?

April 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 14

  1. XKCD and architecture
  2. Western University Pics - Guess the Uni

April 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 16

  1. Word
  2. English agricultural collapse
  3. Dating a globe
  4. J Blackmun
  5. Roman temple of the Clemence
  6. What sect of Islam Muhammad Iqbal had followed?

April 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 17

  1. Does Wikipedia have an article about transgender people and bathroom laws?
  2. Winston Churchill and bombing of London

April 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 18

  1. jamatv
  2. A (Forced) Farewell to Arms?
  3. "Select device manufacturers have not been willing to provide Gorilla Glass model verification."
  4. The difference between these two cases of disagreement
  5. The Experience Project
  6. Countries changing names
  7. US (external, foreign, public, intragovernmental, total etc.) debt
  8. Why are MSM so highly at risk for STDs?
  9. What's up with no smoked sausages in chippies in London and is there one that does?

April 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 19

  1. The difference between these two cases of disagreement (redone)
  2. Countries named after their rulers
  3. Europe Travel describing
  4. Isles of Scilly & Lord Lieutenant

April 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 20

  1. A developing city and its old, cheap apartments
  2. Sievern and Johann Andreas Wagener in South Carolina

April 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 21

  1. Lynvoya Jackson
  2. Nae Ionescu
  3. Indigenous Communities and Negative Effects of Resource Extraction
  4. Violet Piercy
  5. Other than the Germans and the Jews, exactly which other ethnic groups immigrated *by the millions* to their/their ancestors' original homeland?
  6. Laws and court cases regarding automobile rims

April 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 22

  1. Was the moneyless system thing originally a democratic invention?
  2. Theogony and the classical Greek myth timeline

April 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 23

  1. What key is the BSG "Apocalypse" theme in?

April 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 24

  1. James Robert Porter
  2. Lion d'Argent inn, Calais

April 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 25

  1. The Yemen/al Qaida lava lamp
  2. George W. Bush; War on Terror; NSA; Homeland Security; Government surveillance
  3. Special Drawing Rights (SDR) Exchange Rate
  4. If the pope misbehaves, then who is in charge of his job?
  5. Point Island

April 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 26

  1. What's the most developed country that beats these?
  2. Stamp
  3. Hillsborough inquest
  4. On the national register of historic places, but no photo?

April 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 27

  1. About James Robert Porter (agan)
  2. Elizabeth II's citizenships
  3. looking for the source of a quote attributed to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
  4. On popes resigning and returning
  5. The rise of the Canadian dollar

April 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 28

  1. Acting US Attorney
  2. Religion
  3. Legal citation for a chunk of the US Code

April 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 29

  1. what is this kind of frame called
  2. Families of African Leaders

April 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 30

  1. Medieval Charters from Northern French Communes?
  2. Aquitaine
  3. Turkey
  4. Kazakhs, Turkmens, Kyrgyz, and Tajiks in USA
  5. Economy - are low interests for savings account a global thing?
  6. "No" in Japanese names
  7. Hinduism and Buddhism
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