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March 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 March 1

1. A Religous Custom from "The Vikings" a series on HISTORY CHAN.
2. Situation in the Ukraine
3. When and how did universal acceptance of the "seven-day week" occur?
4. US, Russia and Ukraine

March 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 March 2

1. Apprendi and prior convictions
2. politically calming effect
3. Brahmins
4. 1877: US Supreme Court justices, political party affiliations
5. Question about bible code
6. Finding sources for potential Wikipedia articles on ethnic groups in Paris (north African/Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa)
7. Humanities

March 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 March 3

1. Seemed to be another widespread hoax in Chinese magazines, newspapers, blogs and even textbooks...
2. Boroughs and councils in NI
3. Robespierre
4. Is it possible to impress racist people if you are the ethnicity they don't like?
5. A qeustion about laws relating to digital evidence
6. 1914 - ambassador(s)
7. What is this architectural style?
8. How did Yahweh evolve from a war god in a Semitic tribe to a god of love?
9. Is there a Jewish or Muslim equivalent to a guide of [insert-holy-text-here]?
10. Kicking out the Europeans out of their nations

March 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 March 4

1. I have a vole, now what do I do?
2. Sci-fi detective story

March 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 March 5

1. Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse
2. musical effect
3. Medieval Warfare. The Impact of Arrows vs Armour ?

March 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 March 6

1. Do some critical theorists disagree with critical pedagogy?
2. Is the European American population still growing?
3. A children's book series
4. Do the Amish allow paintings instead of photography?
5. Name for Middle-class in power?
6. Movement/organization advocating people to not report their race/ethnicity

March 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 March 7

1. Writers born in and writers who lived in Louisiana
2. website that compares the languages Turkic
3. Grand Budapest Hotel
4. Why can Christians only claim affiliation to one church?
5. Borrowing against a 401K
6. Kingdom of Hawaii last survivor
7. Parliament of USA?
8. Current events: Bridgegate
9. Current events: Trial of Oscar Pistorius
10. Are foods allowed to be dropped into the offertory plate?

March 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 March 8

1. How do I file for divorce
2. Conspiracy theory about Death of Adolf Hitler
3. Does South Africa have some kind of stand-your-ground laws?
4. Greek daktylos

March 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 March 9

1. The disease of kings
2. Jacques Necker - French Finance Minister
3. History
4. Could a medieval monk leave the monastery?
5. Ancient obscene embroidery?

March 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 March 10

1. Cryonic
2. Patriarchs
3. Portents after traumatic events
4. Introduction of Western dress in Greece
5. How did they measure long-distance travel in the past?
6. Evidence for bible code
7. :File:Major General Sir Herbert Stewart.jpg
8. Is my life a fake?
9. Conflict between Buddhism and bourgeois life
10. Push notes

March 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 March 11

1. God, Mary, and Adultery
2. Bradford riots against Ahmadis
3. Does Mahabharata refer to any advanced technologies?
4. Presidential primaries in 1964
5. Medieval Cavalry
6. "Not for Federal Use" Drivers License and Form I - 9
7. Did King Leonidas really kick a Persian emissary down a well?

March 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 March 12

1. why does canada allow its ice hockey skaters to be so unprofessional as to fight?

March 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 March 13

1. Other Countries With Equal Legislative Representation for Each State/Province/Et Cetera
2. President of the US for a day
3. St. Therese Statue search: Is there another one exactly like this in the world?
4. Is the top leadership at Wegmans religious?
5. Little-"o" office of the Vice President
6. Life on the Canals in 1800's
7. Longest incarceration

March 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 March 14

1. Does Dhritarashtra in Mahabharata relate to Dhṛtarāṣṭra in Buddhist mythology, or they just share a name?
2. Strange: No interwiki link to "Vollzugslockerung"
3. Banana producer logo
4. Is this bible code accidential or from God?
5. Senator for two states?

March 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 March 15

1. Not sure if I'm the Biological Father.
2. List of Countries by Their First Constitution
3. Wade in the Water
4. In just a few minutes I am going to make you very rich. Just watch this short video.
5. Documentary Miniseries on the Law
6. Type of wars in Africa, Latin America, Europe

March 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 March 16

1. How can you ensure that you can't do anything illegal on the Internet?
2. What do you think/how do you feel about the Vampire Subculture and the real-vampires?
3. Who all live at the White House?
4. What is the fertility rate of Guangzhou City?

March 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 March 17

1. Evolutionary reason of good/bad distinction
2. How do Jews really trace back to a common ancestor?
3. Iraq
4. Missing airplane
5. Divine authorship of the Bible
6. Does the Nerd/Jock dichotomy portrayed in American films exist in reallife ?

March 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 March 18

1. Arabic language in Israel
2. Black majority cities in US
3. Ballots in Crimea
4. Christian Bible Verse
5. Effect of Crimean annexation on disarmament treaties
6. Sephardic majority cities in israel
7. Were there really twelve disciples of Jesus?
8. sweden norway denmark elections map results which gave most votes to which parties

March 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 March 19

1. Warren Buffett's a billion dollar March Madness give out
2. German anti-Nazi propaganda? 1933 election platform statements?
3. Another missing airplane
4. Irish jumping dance
5. White people in Benin
6. Garuda and Buddhism
7. Samuelson gap
8. 2022 FIFA World Cup more deadly than September 11???

March 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 March 20

1. How do places like China, Japan, and Korea approach world history in grade schools?
2. Trade between two countries with the same currency
3. Victorian theatres in London
4. Singing Southern Baptists
5. Christian pilgrimages

March 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 March 21

1. Likelihood of describing oneself as "Christ follower"
2. Iago in Othello
3. England vs. the United Kingdom
4. Odd type of spoon

March 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 March 22

1. Breaking the fourth wall outside of theatre
2. The Internet and the End of the Cold War
3. The Queen, our Duke
4. Recipe "translation" please
5. Interpretation of a Philosophical Statement

March 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 March 23

1. Princess Agatha of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst
2. The Timing/Date of Russia's Next Census
3. Asian selfless gift-giving (stereotype?)
4. Moldova-Togo Relations
5. April 11, 1994 crash

March 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 March 24

1. Name of a novel
2. Cases Where A Monarch's Second-Oldest Son (or Child) Inherited the Throne After the Premature Death of this Monarch's First Son (or Child)
3. Help finding a specific chart of historical stock market performance
4. why don't headhunters pay emploees?
5. Can famine exist in a developed country?
6. Joining hands vs. intertwined hands vs. palm-kissed hands while saying grace
7. Roman Emperor who converted to Buddhism
8. Has any book on in bible a non-religious origin?
9. Bowie Knife
10. Crimea Being Given to the Ukranian SSR in 1954 as Part of Land Swap?

March 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 March 25

1. German name loophole
2. Miracle of the Sun
3. Magnet motor
4. Sistine Chapel
5. Little-kid-going-off-to-live-with-some-adult-in-the-middle-of-nowhere literary motif
6. What do you wear to Catholic Mass?
7. Birthplace of Christopher Isherwood

March 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 March 26

1. "What disability do you suffer from? "
2. Sample dish of Mod-Oz cuisine
3. Grave fences
4. Religions
5. Capitulary for the Jews
6. Lettuce Patch Dolls in Code Monkeys
7. Scotland, etc.
8. Lack of relationships

March 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 March 27

1. NDP in northern Manitoba
2. "Full disclosure: I am {long|short}" on straddle
3. UK ethnicity
4. Karen Stintz
5. Conscription in Israel

March 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 March 28

1. 16th century Lutheranism
2. Chinese influence on Wicca?
3. Medical/Dental/Optical insurance in USA
4. Economics problem

March 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 March 29

1. Is Other People's Money a good date film?

March 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 March 30

1. Ethnic attrition rates among second and third generation Salvadoran Americans
2. Villages in pre-modern Ireland
3. Chinese depiction of Garuda - Who is the artist?

March 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 March 31

1. Claustrophobia
2. South Africa in 1991
3. Is the hijab or burqa a religious garment or cultural garment?
4. Maselow's hierarchy
5. Retro sex offenders