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January 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 January 1

1. Correct name for Bosnisch Novy in Bosnia

January 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 January 2

1. Has the United States, by definition, always been a colonial power since independence?
2. Article

January 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 January 4

1. Least painful age of womanhood
2. Fifty-state strategy equivalent in other nations
3. Which counties of the Sun Belt
4. When did the name Bavaria arise?
5. I Am An Angry God?
6. Holocaust Rail Justice Act

January 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 January 5

1. Quote Source
2. Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia?
3. Language of TV broadcast and movies in India
4. Saint Carpophorus
5. Impacts of Preventing Cancer for a Country as a Whole

January 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 January 6

1. Catholics in London
2. When did we stop to be obedient servants?
3. Literature about the Ancient Sophists
4. Refusing to let a British royal into your home: has anybody done it and what are the legal consequences?

January 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 January 7

1. Push-back against the phone zombies
2. Santa Claus gender
3. Church-tower roofs
4. Ping An Finance Centre

January 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 January 8

1. Refugees' immigration patterns in Europe
2. Windows 10 Mobile's Cortana's Quiet hours feature: possible collusion with MNOs and cold callers?
3. Did Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Italy or the Biblical Holy Land ever get close to "full"?
4. Nazi "ideologists" besides Hitler himself
5. Wikipedia threats spilling over into real-world violence

January 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 January 9

1. Difference between evolutionary creationism and intelligent design
2. Where exactly is Taejon-ni ?

January 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 January 10

1. Taking the government to court

January 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 January 11

1. Bring Me the Head of Henry Grey

January 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 January 12

1. History about Italy
2. Wikipedia: Unusual_articles Places_and_infrastructure
3. Who were the "sex viri"? -
4. Russian domestic violence bill with an overbroad provision

January 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 January 13

1. Christian Apologetics Books
2. Where was Holy Trinity Minories?
3. "In her own right"

January 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 January 14

1. ICE Detainers
2. Cellphone holsters
3. Have any real leaders of anything significant been known to laugh maniacally?

January 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 January 15

1. Christian views -> Prohibitionism

January 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 January 16

1. What does this mean?
2. Gail Halvorsen (Candy Bomber) during WWII
3. British monarch's personal political responsibilities

January 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 January 17

1. Potter's wheel in Pre-Columbian America?
2. California Assembly District 39 elections (June 5, 2018)
3. Did Early Users of Double-Entry Bookkeeping Use Negative Numbers?
4. Sedgwick's Chief of Staff at Spotsylvania - McMahon

January 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 January 18

1. US helping Palestinians
2. Implied warranties

January 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 January 20

1. Was the roman god mars ever associated with fire?
2. Looking for a dump
3. Anthropomorphism

January 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 January 21

1. J.S.Bach. Cantata No.51, "Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen", BWV 51 (1730)

January 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 January 22

1. What does the acronymn FFCM mean.

January 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 January 23

1. The FriendsWithYou duo

January 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 January 24

1. Corrections/clarifications required on circumnavigation records.
2. How old are the Torslunda plates?
3. U.S. Special Counsel investigation = DOJ or FBI?
4. What does a sentence range really mean?

January 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 January 25

1. Millionth richest person
2. American car auctions

January 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 January 26

1. Historical name frequency in Germany / UK

January 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 January 27

1. Google Trends
2. Meaning of stated in relation/context to document passage
3. Tohono O’odham Nation

January 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 January 28

1. Company with obsolete & current FCA entry - reason for switch
2. Sebastian Kurz vs Angela Merkel

January 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 January 29

1. Where's Laurent Picard
2. Good and evil
3. Is there any practical reason to having a position of the head of state that is separate from a head of government in a parliamentary system of government?
4. Air transport
5. There's public transport and private transport. What form of transport are taxis?
6. labor adjuster
7. Donald Trump's grandpa's views
8. DNA analysis

January 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 January 30

1. two organizations working together
2. Origami

January 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 January 31

1. Court-martial?
2. Constitutions where brevity was a factor in the drafting
3. Princess Arthur of Connaught and an unfortunate mistake
4. Degrees of Royal belovedness
5. Whatever happened to the Royal Drawing Society?