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February 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 February 1

  1. Executive orders?
  2. Biz/Finance app
  3. Excluding Texas + California, were there American settlers in Mexico in the early 19th century?
  4. Reliable sources that give a positive view of trump

February 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 February 2

  1. Last young leaders
  2. Merging interstate US cities
  3. Does a European Union body publish a "yearbook" or some summary of what happened during the last period?
  4. Deadliest days in law enforcement
  5. sentenced to 15 years, 5 of them in prison
  6. People turning to right wing politics when economy is doing poorly,left wing politics in times of economic prosperity
  7. District 23 and District 33 of North Dakota House of Representatives which counties

February 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 February 3

  1. What is the minimum viable population to maintain modern technology?
  2. What was the weapon(s) used in the Quebec City mosque shooting?
  3. Beckett and bikes
  4. Beckett sued for libel by his uncle
  5. Is sending one's deceased testicles (as a gift) to someone illegal?
  6. Do East Asian governments recommend dairy consumption as part of a balanced diet?
  7. line of command in the 3rd reich

February 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 February 4

  1. Why should people need to save their life before others scrupulously?
  2. Legalizing marijuana in Canada
  3. Japan, Korea and Singapore school systems
  4. Heat set on in the upper 70s

February 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 February 5

  1. Elections in France
  2. Is it legal in the U.S. (for you) to harm yourself in front of your child?
  3. Companies which "buy ideas"
  4. Confusing cause and consequence
  5. Jean Bernadotte's command of Swedish

February 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 February 6

  1. Higher education in Russia
  2. Longest preamble
  3. More questions about the visa ban!
  4. Yezidi pilgrimage
  5. Current state of the UFO phenomenon

February 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 February 7

  1. Right to asylum as a general right to move around within the host country
  2. Tamil Tigers indoctrination methods
  3. Crime and Punishment death sentence
  4. Is a man can live alone?

February 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 February 8

  1. Per-person tax rate comparison figures
  2. Exporting non-tangible non-services
  3. Betsy DeVos and National Heritage Academies
  4. Odd conditions in sentencing in the US justice system.
  5. Can businesses predict when their sales will plateau?
  6. What size of vehicle starts to cause clearance difficulties in the US or require extra lights or reflectors?
  7. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
  8. Silent Legislators
  9. How was Ancient Rome able to sustain a population of one million
  10. Divine Comedy, Purgatorio section of WP article

February 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 February 9

  1. Do puppies pretend to love you in order to mooch off your food supply?

February 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 February 10

  1. Ineligibility Clause, US Constitution
  2. Guided Learning (Buddhism)
  3. Sinking of a navel vessel

February 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 February 11

  1. Royal Navy prize naming conventions

February 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 February 12

  1. IDs/kin and kinning
  2. Rail Network statements
  3. Privilege and prestige of different ranks of peerage in the UK

February 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 February 13

  1. Vexillology Question
  2. Why Rohingya people not turn violent like other discrimated Muslim groups?

February 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 February 14

  1. Why have end dates on lists of office holders?
  2. Francis Funk
  3. Who polices the police?
  4. Kerman Airport
  5. Which US states are like this?
  6. HMRC mileage rate
  7. Did the fascists officially prohibit International Women's Day?
  8. English translation for دبیرستان ایرانشهر کرمان?
  9. Does Florida's terroir prevent getting close to fine Cuban cigar tobacco quality?

February 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 February 15

  1. Historical or semi- or quasi-historical novels or romans a clef in which Donald Trump has appeared as a major or minor character
  2. Suicide Rates Amongst Existential Nihlists.
  3. Madoc
  4. Tehran-Mashhad railway
  5. Thought experiment about culpability for accidental killing of a suicidal person
  6. Shahid Heydarian Stadium in Qom
  7. Takhti Stadium in Qom
  8. Qom railway station

February 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 February 16

  1. Biblical truths
  2. Funeral procession and religion of the decease
  3. Authoritarian regimes that are centrist
  4. Deputy representatives in Norwegian parliament
  5. If an accused asks for a lawyer
  6. Later Wittgenstein on causality
  7. Who is in charge of a factory?
  8. Why do humans believe that they have free will?

February 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 February 17

  1. Death of a sitting judge
  2. Independent executive presidents & French political system
  3. Is it just TV BS that Nevada casinos could let people at least too drunk to drive bet on credit, give them free drinks, then get them incarcerated for a year or two if their life savings couldn't cover the loaned bets they lost?

February 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 February 18

  1. Distribution of animal products to supermarkets based on type
  2. swear-in or initiation ceremonies

February 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 February 19

  1. Spitting alcohol into someone's face (religion)

February 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 February 20

  1. 1989 Yak-40 accident
  2. Is there a canonical way of grouping Europeans?

February 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 February 21

  1. Northwestern tribal art
  2. Liberal democratic political parties in Italy
  3. Eisenhower Contributions to WWII
  4. Name for weakest part of a castle?

February 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 February 22

  1. Origin of this image
  2. The Courtenay Faggot
  3. Legitimate, scam or something else?
  4. Catholic doctrine on humans of other species

February 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 February 23

  1. Quotation about a rose girl
  2. Quotation about apples
  3. Hyman G. Rickover:
  4. Agencies which work with ICE
  5. NATO defence budgets
  6. How do people always have a constant supply of energy to power their world?
  7. 35 U.S. Code $121 - Divisional application
  8. Ad hominem attacks
  9. Less opposition to Donald Trump
  10. Zero-sum games

February 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 February 24

  1. German photographers
  2. what is the difference between street photography, travel photography, photojournalism, and documentary photography?
  3. Norwegian irredentism
  4. Pro-Japanese cliques
  5. What is the job description for a file clerk at a law office?
  6. Did people perceive depth in ancient times?

February 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 February 25

  1. Numbering of Sapphic fragments
  2. Aztec cooking
  3. Aesthetics of American fashion photography
  4. A party declining to re-nominate their President as their second-term candidate
  5. Did Soviet aviation use ICAO phonetic alphabet?
  6. Who built the airports in Nigeria, and when?
  7. Portrait of Queen Victoria, Senate Foyer, Centre Block, Ottowa, Canada

February 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 February 26

  1. UK Civil service governance
  2. Identifying the symbols of a Model 1891 Mosin-Nagant "Dragoon"
  3. Are there any Reliably-sourced non-Zhuangzi versions of the Butterfly dream?
  4. ICANN

February 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 February 27

  1. Maritime flag protocol
  2. Libertarians

February 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 February 28

  1. Sentencing an adult for a crime committed back when (s)he was a juvenile
  2. marketplace companies
  3. "Chinese Shinto"
  4. Does outsourcing make the non-well off of the developing world better off or worse?
  5. Government departments
  6. Who was the first black Catholic bishop?
  7. Public statues of living black people in the UK