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March 1

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1. Foreign exchange student vs international student

March 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 2

1. What is a "browning shot"? Submarine warfare in the First World War
2. Technical problem in ultimate solution?

March 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 3

1. Anglo-Norman marriage alliances
2. David the composer
3. Became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
4. "For children, use first names on second reference. For adults, use last names on second reference."

March 4

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1. National Flags with Writing

March 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 5

1. I come from X and want to know what Y is
2. Poland and the Holocaust
3. I have an inquiry about the news in Indonesia

March 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 6

1. German pastor arrested for anti-nazi activities and later released
2. Is lying considered wrong in Russian culture?
3. Imprisonment for public protection...

March 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 7

1. Modern/correct name of a 15th century Dutch town
2. Research paper about the history of the Chinese heritage language schools in the United States

March 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 8

1. Western Orthodox University

March 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 9

1. Modern numeral systems
2. Syria's conflict
3. Which is regarded as a prestige language in Hong Kong - Standard Mandarin, Standard Cantonese, or English?

March 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 10

1. Do French families bear collective responsibility for income tax?
2. Naming system for variations of musical modes
3. Finding K-12 student work about the US-Mexico border from students in US and Mexico

March 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 11

1. Has anyone evaluated whether the Black Stone at Mecca could be a piece of the Elagabalus stone?
2. closest lighthouses
3. Charley Farley

March 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 12

1. What is the highest sex on earth?
2. Highest face value gold or silver coin?
3. Life in prison without parole in the EU
4. celebrity endorsements in Dutch general elections 2017, German general elections 2017 and Italian general elections 2018
5. Borders of Pennsylvania

March 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 13

1. The religious affiliation of Albrecht Dürer
2. "Foggy Bottom" Reference in News Article
3. Do countries that sell land for money ever buy it back? Or part of it?

March 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 14

1. Kathy Xiaosi Gong
2. What does Wikipedia call it when two romantic partners are in a car
3. Fairy tale type 480

March 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 15

1. Technical term - dramatic line with too few feet
2. Translation from German to English

March 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 16

1. For profit prisons
2. Wine competition
3. Election results that are "too close to call"
4. HistoricalWitch hunt
5. Elisa Montessori
6. "Question everything, Learn something, Answer nothing"

March 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 17

1. Did the Romans invade Britain for tin?
2. Sunday Bloody Sunday Film Title
3. Beihai State
4. Critics of the New Deal.

March 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 18

1. Meaning of this line of numerals
2. Abdication in Catholic vs Protestant monarchies
3. Why is Magnus Carlsen's FIDE blitz rating so high?
4. The US has 50 states and the Republic of Ireland has 26 counties

March 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 19

1. Historic postal address for Bristol
2. galley proofs

March 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 20

1. survival exercise: would the rivers be frozen?
2. Did Germany ever bomb Germany
3. SNAP and Food Banks

March 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 21

1. Italy general election results 2018
2. Equivalent to FBI serial killings
3. Current status of proposed Russian political party Independent Democratic Party of Russia

March 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 22

1. Where's the busiest point of Interstate highway that's not in a metro or micropolitan area?
2. Qaddafi's 50 million Euro campaign contribution to Sarkozy presidential campaign
3. Translation of Chinese deity name
4. Why the Romans persecuted Christians
5. naming perpetrators in the media
6. What might've that claim been talking about? (England to 13 colony immigration)

March 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 23

1. How does Russia have 15 closed cities that nobody knows the location of
2. Why didn't North Vietnamese forces overwhelm American patrols in the jungle?

March 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 24

1. Foot fetishism semiotics articles journals
2. How can an international company like Toys R Us go bankrupt?
3. Collaterals and property ownership
4. Jesus teaching in the Synagogues

March 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 25

1. 1917 French Army mutinies
2. Views of America's youth on the US military and aggression

March 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 26

1. Politically conservative parties and climate change denial
2. Which positions have the politcal parties in the UK about how to deal with the Brexit vote?
3. Why is the Catholic Church not a member of the World Council of Churches?
4. Where are some of the places in this video located?

March 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 27

1. family connection to two tragedies
2. Qui vult finem, vult etiam media

March 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 28

1. Omnia cognoscentia cognoscunt implicite Deum in quolibet cognito
2. Similar concepts to anatta in Western philosophy
3. Philosophical quotes
4. Do foreign nationals ever send their kids to Chinese local schools than international schools?
5. Good Friday Fish but not meat

March 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 29

1. "sing three songs of araby" theme and allusion in joyce's "araby" analysis
2. German to English translation
3. Counting the hours (back when 6 AM was called the 1st hour)

March 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 30

1. Countries that require social media information for visas

March 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 31

1. Questions about the King James Only movement
2. Christian Responses to Friedrich Nietzsche?