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January 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 1

1. Spanish Armada
2. Military Base Names
3. 1925 military uniform in file

January 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 2

1. After article or article detail from NY Times Machine -- who has access?
2. What made the Byzantine Empire much weaker in the 14th century in comparison to the 13th century?
3. Baike Baidu
4. "Nordic race"

January 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 3

1. Fountain pen ink

January 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 4

1. Klick
2. Ethnic groups that achieved ethnogenesis largely or completely as a result of Communist rule?

January 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 5

1. Ideologies or concepts comparable to Lebensraum?
2. Nur Sultan/Nur Soltan

January 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 6

1. Kalmyk separatism
2. I need to find 11,700 more votes
3. How mountaineers avoid sinking into deep snow covers?
4. Where was this arrest image from?
5. Treason law in the USA
6. Army?
7. Contact between Siberian and American peoples post-migration

January 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 7

1. Why are there hymns but not hers?
2. Highest Presidential Approval Rates
3. bling on a politician
4. Capitol Breaches? (Not sure if that's the right word)
5. Ancient blackamoors
6. Prominent cases of "second acts" in United States politics?

January 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 8

1. Japanese Cultural Center in Bangkok

January 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 9

1. What age/era came after romantic era?
2. New-XYZ
3. Trumps children

January 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 10

1. electoral certificates
2. Christianity related question
3. Impact of Covid compared to past pandemics?
4. US soldiers in Iraq
5. Other cases where the law forces one to endure extraordinary burdens in order to have a guaranteed shot to escape/avoid legal responsibilities/obligations?
6. Watteau's Le Printemps

January 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 11

1. Which religion came first? Jainism or Hinduism?
2. Most logistically challenging military operations?
3. Cases where there were (often irrational) fears of people of a different race or ethnic group invading one's country?
4. Impeachment playbook?

January 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 12

1. Number of US Capitol rioters
2. Cheque Payment
3. Edward C. Ash
4. Getting a super-condor in golf
5. Large-scale United States military interventions that were seriously considered and proposed but ultimately rejected?
6. Who are these women (and one man)

January 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 13

1. Are there any promiscuous women exist in Islam?
2. Yeltsin on a tank
3. Would Speaker of the House get their job back after being VP?
4. United States intelligence gathering in the years and decades before the creation of the CIA
5. Mysterious Beethoven busts
6. More 25th amendment

January 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 14

1. America
2. Khomeini's the Little Green Book

January 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 15

1. Blair House library
2. India is great power?
3. Baptist ministers

January 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 16

1. Random spike in page views for minor Baroque composer
2. Rejection of acquisition
3. Largest diaspora communities in percentage terms

January 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 17

1. Why was there no large-scale anti-Mexican rebellion in Alta California in the early 19th century like there was in Texas?
2. Flag of Suriname Problem
3. The so-called Quadruple Alliance, and its expedition to Jerusalem in 1840
4. I'm looking to confirm a reference on Dracula

January 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 18

1. Territories that had constant warfare for decades over the last several decades?
2. Peinliches Verhoer - an image with unknown origin
3. Courts for state-sponsored terrorism
4. Same ship?
5. What is "abolt"?

January 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 19

1. "Democracies always fail because people vote for more benefits"
2. State action and enforcing the US Senate's equal apportionment and the electoral college?

January 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 20

1. Requesting inputs
2. Shi'a separatism in Saudi Arabia
3. Iranian plans if Iran would have won the Iran-Iraq War?
4. QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER
5. History the past

January 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 21

1. Most ambitious wars of conquest throughout history?
2. Who was Honoricus (the one eaten by worms)?
3. Swearing on a Bible . . . or something else . . .

January 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 22

1. Territorial ambitions of Russian Fascists
2. When was grain refining invented?
3. U.S. Grant's first presidential inauguration
4. A John Bright text

January 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 23

1. Countries that were intended as temporary creations and as stepping stones to annexation by some other, larger country?
2. Summary judgment and letters of credit
3. Fate of POWs at the end of WWII

January 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 24

1. Looking for a poem
2. Candace Award last given

January 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 25

1. Margaret Adelaide Wilson
2. Parti conscience universelle
3. Tolkien etymological reference
4. Territorial secessions that occurred as a result of a revolution and/or regime change?
5. J. Paul Getty at Oxford

January 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 27

1. Old French money vs today's American dollars
2. Third Secret of Fatima
3. Ronald Reagan assassination attempt bullets question

January 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 28

1. Looking for old version of American Revolution article
2. Namesake of Moremi Game Reserve

January 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 29

1. Where are the other 10%
2. What's going on in this image?
3. Why did Malaysia, Brunei, and Indonesia never join SEATO?
4. Handkerchiefs marked with hair

January 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 30

1. kevin clinesmith
2. Why didn't the Soviet Union allow polygamy after World War II for European ethnic groups?
3. Earliest historical figure known to have all four grandparents alive when he/she was born
4. Why the reversal of blue and red when discussing politics?
5. Afghanistan and the Soviet Union's unwillingness to crush Solidarity in Poland
6. If Ronald Reagan is assassinated in 1981, is there any realistic way to get the Curse of Tippecanoe to extend into the 2000s?
7. Political party that can be symbolized with violet

January 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 31

1. Catholic Churches becoming Orthodox
2. Prominent United States politicians dying during George W. Bush's Presidency
3. Can you plead guilty at an impeachment trial?
4. Unseen characters in books?