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August 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 August 1

  1. Spanish-language literature in Malayalam
  2. Did the British or French Empire have the larger colonial population in Africa?
  3. IMF. Reserve tranche positions

August 2

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  1. Africa; Western or Eastern world??
  2. 13 colonies losing the war
  3. Territory transfer after Soviet break up
  4. The President may pardon "...except in cases of impeachment".
  5. Congress after Cabinet
  6. Most diplomatic missions
  7. Mrs President = Marquise?
  8. Peace deal in 1941
  9. Latinized Russian banned in Russian-language forums?
  10. Inscription holes
  11. Impeachment of a US President
  12. What do they send, when they send a telegram?

August 3

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  1. British capture of slave ships
  2. Are there maps like this of other regions?
  3. What the hell is going on in Duterte's Philippines?

August 4

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  1. What qualifies as a presidential disability and how it affects the presidency
  2. Expulsion of Jews from Spain
  3. Regnal name of Charles William Ferdinand of Brunswick & the other Charles II.

August 5

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  1. Hindu texts in Bengali
  2. Dedication protocols
  3. Official Apology for slavery of the Black and for deporting the Natives
  4. 1000 Bombings a year?
  5. Working languages of the Courland empire
  6. Olympic events before the opening ceremony
  7. Chinese states during Western Zhou and Spring and Autumn period

August 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 August 6

  1. Asking an African if they have internet: funny or not?
  2. meaning of invitation times
  3. 1945, after German capitulation

August 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 August 7

  1. Shriners Hospitals for Children

August 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 August 8

  1. Is Christianity copied from Zoroastrianism
  2. Bear Market Alert
  3. Symbols of Classical Deists
  4. Harambe.
  5. Evidence of language before writing
  6. Muslim beards
  7. Racist Australian island

August 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 August 9

  1. Rio 2016

August 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 August 10

  1. Can natural-born U.S. citizens who meet the residency requirement and who currently have dual citizenship run for the U.S. Presidency?
  2. Transpolitania?
  3. 22 children of Thomas Bambridge
  4. Painting ID?

August 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 August 11

  1. Take home pay comparison map
  2. Mary of Baux-Orange
  3. Private military companies banned under the Russian constitution
  4. Scott's ship Discovery: the crest
  5. Internets server hosts, users' illegal content, and US federal criminal liability
  6. Immigration, social issues and diversity among supporters of GOP and Democrats supporters
  7. Is there anything in the U.S. Constitution itself that prohibits implied repeal of parts of the U.S. Constitution?
  8. Anti discrimination lawsuit against Philadelphia schooks

August 12

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  1. Did the United States exist as a sovereign state before the ratification of the Articles of Confederation?
  2. Precise location of Soros Fund Management Headquarters
  3. Benghazi and politics
  4. Philome Obin

August 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 August 14

  1. Active monarchist pretenders
  2. After Culloden

August 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 August 15

  1. Economy of the Irish Free State
  2. Where is the Lincoln Bedroom scandal mentioned in Wikipedia?
  3. why not Anthropology?
  4. PhD academic requirements

August 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 August 16

  1. Ottoman empire's parts or subdivisions
  2. Why no 8/8 time?

August 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 August 17

  1. Citrine - vote of no confidence
  2. Ancient Chinese Cleromancy
  3. Rates of autism among wikipedians

August 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 August 18

  1. Reliable sources critical of islam
  2. Mandatory evacuation

August 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 August 19

  1. Rescission
  2. Lyrical Intercalation?

August 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 August 20

  1. Popes alive at the same time
  2. Historical boundary between County Down and County Antrim in the Belfast (Northern Ireland) area

August 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 August 21

  1. % interest and % sinking fund
  2. Censorship of Aaron's Rod

August 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 August 22

  1. Pat DeWine
  2. Is the title "First Lady" or "First Gentleman" used when the spouse is of the same sex as the leader?

August 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 August 23

  1. If you plant tree(s) 1 inch from a someone's land and they don't want trees over it what happens?
  2. Cases where a part of a U.S. state constitution was struck down as being unconstitutional

August 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 August 24

  1. Force Majeure - means what in the village?
  2. 1967 Milwaukee riot
  3. What is a "barn-door-fowl flight of learning"

August 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 August 25

  1. What is the difference? Kingdom, Empire, Dynasty, emirate, sultanate
  2. Joint Chiefs of Staff memo October, 10 1947
  3. Risk averse nature of public sector organisations
  4. Is the Marco Polo in the TV commercial historically accurate?

August 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 August 26

  1. A Theory of Justice
  2. Ohio River lock tolls
  3. Anthropology/Sociology/Psychology
  4. Were any Republicans elected to statewide office during the Solid South era?

August 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 August 27

  1. Theories of justification/Philosophy
  2. Ukraine. Impossible trinity. Hryvna depreciation

August 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 August 28

  1. Security of the Queen
  2. "Killer Queen"

August 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 August 29

  1. Developed country definitions
  2. Christian Amita Society (?)
  3. Time moving more quickly as one gets older

August 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 August 30

  1. Tinned potatoes
  2. Location of Mouhajirya/Mouhajiria/Mehajeria in Sudan

August 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 August 31

  1. Please identify these weapons
  2. FDR's gesture
  3. how the money ( fees ) divided between udemy and instructor
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