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June 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 June 1

  1. Why didn't Thomas Aquinas' family want Thomas to join the Dominicans?
  2. Where does exactly the Mediterranean sea begin and end?
  3. Submissions of creative writing manuscripts and pseudonyms
  4. History programs and courses at Canadian universities and community colleges
  5. Very young children left alone
  6. procedures and rules around the world - legal rules for receipt
  7. In the NATO phonetic alphabet, 9 is pronounced niner because...
  8. Red distress flags on broken down US cars (1960s)
  9. Paris Agreement withdrawal process

June 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 June 2

  1. How does the UK Government work?
  2. A street grid made of congruent triangular blocks?
  3. Two questions about climate change denial
  4. Apart from fund raising projects,assignments,donations from donors,users and other organizations,what are the other ways by which Wikimedia receieve money for charitable purposes?
  5. blood donation consent form
  6. Translation from German to English
  7. Translation from German to English

June 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 June 3

  1. "China as climate change leader"
  2. Swear on a stack of bibles to tell the whole truth
  3. Green Climate Fund
  4. Russian government and Brexit
  5. School segmentation
  6. Previous sentences and US death penalty in the 70s
  7. Book on the philosophy of a branch of mathematics and related books

June 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 June 4

  1. UK constituencies
  2. C. of E. services
  3. Former POTUS political interviews
  4. Adolf Hitler and fox hunting

June 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 June 5

  1. Carpe diem living and the future
  2. How dangerous is it to walk down the street?
  3. Bathing and privacy in 18th C
  4. OE Panther

June 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 June 6

  1. State historian
  2. Benjamin Barber jihad and mcworld democracy
  3. Four dynamics of McWorld
  4. Green Movement in Confederal Option
  5. Market not free nor perfect
  6. Nation-states connected Complex Interdependence
  7. Bakery and baking
  8. Liberal Democrat election propaganda
  9. Zoologist, non-academic
  10. Eighth Route Army
  11. Is there a RL analogy to leaving separated, surrounded units too costly to rescue,
  12. Australia's online sales tax changes

June 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 June 7

  1. Richard III's hunchback
  2. Road safety
  3. Christians and the holy land
  4. Socioeconomic status women and men / wives and husbands at wedding day
  5. Fifty leading American companies
  6. Wars of the Roses

June 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 June 8

  1. Masha Gessen gay marriage
  2. Advanced English
  3. Edward the Exile

June 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 June 9

  1. Presidential-style campaign in UK
  2. Greater London constituencies
  3. How to describe opposing justice for minorities?
  4. Is there a possibility, that....
  5. UK Election - Two Queens speeches and other matters

June 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 June 10

  1. Research professors in the natural and physical science sectors of academia
  2. title for replica vessel
  3. England-and-Wales voting, pre-1832

June 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 June 11

  1. Jewelry makers mark
  2. 2017 Bilderberg Conference
  3. Where to find a book in English translation
  4. Kipling poem mentioned in L. Sprague de Camp's story "Nothing in the Rules"
  5. Any historians of American presidents here?
  6. Reason of child abuse
  7. Necklaces & Bracelets used by
  8. Arthur Young from Samoa

June 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 June 12

  1. US President's letter to Chris Young
  2. Lord Buckethead has stood in UK elections (at least) 3 times...
  3. Name of the thing the horse chases?
  4. Democratic Party presidential candidates in 2020
  5. Sinn Féin

June 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 June 13

  1. Ancient Romans and Eight-fold Division

June 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 June 14

  1. Tui Manuʻa Elisala/Elisara
  2. Abbreviation for His Majesty's Troopship
  3. Roman inscriptional style
  4. Winchester College degree?
  5. Whore of Babylon
  6. Zakat

June 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 June 15

  1. Nanchang Changbei International Airport

June 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 June 16

  1. Neon Phaleron
  2. Absolute monarchies that are fully industrialized
  3. Calculating the appropriate tax level directly from the value of natural resources
  4. Is it certain that 1 WTC would have collapsed by the plane crash?
  5. Dower lands of English queens

June 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 June 17

  1. Consolidation Act
  2. If everyone owned an equal number of shares
  3. Making US hundred dollar bills worthless
  4. Reason for income redistribution
  5. What size city might host a 600m2 cricket administration building with an auditorium?
  6. How do Islamic banks earn money

June 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 June 18

  1. Older/Fat mothers
  2. Do Indian Christians eat beef?
  3. MOS: Biography / Place of birth
  4. Japan Rail Pass

June 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 June 19

  1. What determines whether an issue is "liberal" or "conservative"?
  2. What's the woman/blindfold/bird/blood thing?
  3. Coin with cave painting
  4. Compass-point orientation of churches
  5. Chinese economic reform and urbanization
  6. Death Penalty In 1930s, For Out of State Resident?
  7. Izzy Einstein's autobiography
  8. Austrian politics

June 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 June 20

  1. U.S. Olympic sponsors
  2. Why was the Grenfell tower in Kensington?

June 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 June 21

  1. Iceland compared to American internet usage
  2. Southern pride
  3. Cave art in France
  4. Getting to the Holy Land during the Crusades
  5. Grenfell fire: how many survived/escaped?
  6. Democrats changing their stance on illegal immigrants
  7. Lord Milton
  8. 3 per cent reduced

June 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 June 22

  1. Second World War
  2. Results of French legislative elections before 2002
  3. Literary device like a nested metaphor
  4. 190 Personnel LLC

June 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 June 23

  1. How well is Qatar preparing for invasion?
  2. Regional banks

June 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 June 24

  1. Wiki article for *Karen Handel* - possible issue of "circular sourcing"
  2. Creation of fantasy names

June 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 June 25

  1. Infinite Wealth and Happiness

June 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 June 26

  1. A guy where I work contends that CSPAN is actually harming democracy and functioning of usa legislature.
  2. Rosie inspiration artwork
  3. (1) Information on Norwegian immigration to America (2) Norwegian whaling industry
  4. Has it ever taken this long to form the UK/British/English government?

June 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 June 27

  1. Eligibility requirements for UC Board of Regents
  2. Man of steel ad for Trump
  3. Name of this law
  4. What’s the point of anything if we’re all going to be dead someday?
  5. Gurkha Error
  6. Swiss farinet

June 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 June 28

  1. AFL-CIO
  2. Voice of transgender woman

June 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 June 30

  1. European obsession with exotic spices
  2. Humpty Dumpty
  3. Taryn Brumfitt
  4. music and alignment of the planets (well sort of)
  5. Where's that pre-Montgolfier brothers image where