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August 1

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  1. Movement of money
  2. Great-grandparents
  3. The White Man's Burden
  4. Idiomatic translation

August 2

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  1. A government of the second eleven

August 3

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  1. Spanish translation of D. H. Lawrence's The Plumed Serpent

August 4

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  1. Right to arms and extrajudicial killing

August 6

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  1. alleged shooter
  2. England name

August 7

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  1. Falkland Islands

August 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 August 9

  1. Time capsule
  2. Customs and immigration procedures for people rescued at sea
  3. Who is the historian in this video?
  4. Who are these men?

August 10

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  1. Gallup's most admired man and woman poll
  2. Chinese surname changes

August 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 August 11

  1. Is this Rita Braver?
  2. Which Salt Lake 2002 medallist is this?
  3. Improve this article: Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov

August 12

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  1. More or less than half of Church (in the widest sense) going Americans belong to faiths where women can lead local units?

August 14

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  1. Appleton's handbook

August 15

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  1. Andrew Yang
  2. Did the part of England that founded an American colony ever become nativist against another part?

August 16

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  1. What is the lowest population country that swaps embassies with every not unusually bad relations country that has more people than it?

August 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 August 17

  1. Coronation of the British monarch
  2. If the reason behind electoral college is that each state is supposed to be equal, why don't each state have just one electoral college vote and so each state is equal?

August 18

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  1. Airport construction in bird areas
  2. Trump wants to buy Greenland.

August 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 August 19

  1. Is this real
  2. Accessing historic newspapers
  3. question re Farm Bill
  4. Government by chance

August 20

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  1. Treaty of Potsdam
  2. City rivalry in other European countries

August 21

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  1. Negative yield bonds

August 22

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  1. Franklin D. Roosevelt: Illness a topic in campaings?
  2. Request for reading suggestions
  3. "No answer" came the stern reply
  4. Indonesian Sultans not speaking
  5. Who is the Artist "Mojer" who's paintings were reproduced by Prints For Pleasure in England, United Kingdom?
  6. What's the highest title of nobility that can be bought?

August 23

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  1. Is there any (current or historical) society that implemented tax based currency?
  2. Unequal treatment of persons involved in sex crimes

August 24

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  1. Legality of Trump's Tariff Hikes

August 25

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  1. Death of Anna Leopoldovna
  2. Claim by The Guardian about Big Tobacco's power.

August 26

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  1. Trivia about Julius Caesar's assassination
  2. Cases of settler colonialism culminating into separatism?
  3. Appropriating famous dead people's names

August 27

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  1. Gunboats in the American Civil War

August 28

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  1. Why are the 2020 Democratic candidates no longer using the word "suspend" when dropping out?
  2. HMHS Britannic auction
  3. Criminal charges against dead person
  4. The greatest American Author?

August 29

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  1. Stalin
  2. Brown's Chicken massacre: Amount stolen
  3. Hitler's standard variation

August 30

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  1. Indian state borders for Commons
  2. Parliamentary prorogation and the options available to MP's to prevent a no-deal Brexit
  3. What would Brexit happening or being prevented do to the pound?
  4. Understanding text: "Not to know the relative disposition of things"
  5. 75 hours of the gulag archipelago!

August 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 August 31

  1. Harsher punishment for lack of remorse?
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