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May 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 1

  1. Shanty town and slum
  2. "Murder on the Orient Express" question
  3. Popular critics of Internet communities?
  4. Ancient Egyptian development pace
  5. Software playlists
  6. Male Mormon missionaries vs. female Mormon missionaries

May 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 2

  1. Best selling books

May 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 3

  1. Are we getting dumber?
  2. READ
  3. Saudi princes and all that
  4. Connections between Isis (Auset) and Ishtar?

May 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 4

  1. "Government intervention" as a misnomer
  2. Freedom charter monument kliptown

May 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 5

  1. The long arm of the victim
  2. effect of gold influx,
  3. Gold standard and redeeming the "physical" metal
  4. How did Ireland become christian before Britain?

May 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 6

  1. Business speeches
  2. Why don't many sports like accuracy?
  3. Anyone know this novella/short story?
  4. St. Leo of the Catholic Church

May 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 7

  1. non-profit fundraiser limitations
  2. Full Day Kindergarten
  3. Pope of royal descent

May 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 8

  1. "these dark Satanic mills" vs "those dark Satanic mills"
  2. Jakob Lorber
  3. About the 30-day SSI rule - could I just visit a US diplomatic mission once a month to get around it?
  4. Preferring faith over personal evidence?
  5. Crafter too good, King cripples him.
  6. Funding PhD students

May 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 9

  1. Screaming at concerts
  2. Resting place of Kings of Naples
  3. Why is the Vice President not Acting President while the President is out of the country?
  4. Why are SATs and ACTs at like 7 am?
  5. Adriano fiorentino

May 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 10

  1. Carlist and the Pragmatic Sanction of 1830
  2. Kangar paintings
  3. Schools making kids tour hardened Correctional facilities
  4. Anyone have access to the following Italian source?
  5. UK Base rate vs lending rates
  6. Venetian ceremonial galley of the 1700s
  7. Who was David Murdoch referenced on page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_frontier#Prostitution
  8. Female United States Navy SEALs

May 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 11

  1. Battle of Berlin footage
  2. Wikpedia errors becoming an Internet meme: Peter Katin
  3. Ray Kassar
  4. Belligerents' diplomacy during WWII
  5. Forty Martyrs
  6. Ancient Peru
  7. What is the real per capita income of the USA?

May 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 12

  1. Religions with inferior Creators?
  2. The draft
  3. Saint related superstitions
  4. Why do I pretty much never get a tax return, no matter how much I make?
  5. International Economic Commissions

May 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 13

  1. Any visible parts common to " Statue of Liberty" and "Eiffel Tower"
  2. State borders in the USA
  3. Makeup
  4. Amending the U.S. Constitution
  5. Legal question
  6. Friend Of The Court
  7. Water faucets
  8. Pink Dollar generated in the United States

May 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 14

  1. Events known by different names in different countries
  2. enquiry about the original book of Robinson Crusoe
  3. Arbeitskarte work papers during World War II
  4. What is the problem with a morphine overdose as a means of execution?
  5. If gays had rights, thieves would have rights too
  6. West Georgia, Alaska
  7. Disability
  8. Trying to find source of quotation - Foot family (British politicians)
  9. Origin of law enforcement as a distinct occupation
  10. Chinese history / fiction question

May 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 15

  1. why does being Jewish descent mean only through one's Jewish mother and not father?

May 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 16

  1. US President Impeachments
  2. Oldest recorded voice of a president

May 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 17

  1. posters with similar causes
  2. Jakob Lorber's personal life
  3. how various instution promote culture in uganda?
  4. What was the first state with a republic government system?
  5. Public records / public information
  6. London Auxiliary Ambulance Service
  7. Queen Tuarii

May 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 18

  1. "SOCIETEY ENDRACT"
  2. Tahiti queen journal illustre
  3. Gigong and yoga

May 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 19

  1. Reliable biography of Nikola Tesla
  2. A general blackout
  3. Isidore Chesse
  4. Corporate influence over politics in first world democracies
  5. wondering about a strange sociology documentary
  6. Three newspapers that dropped Doonesbury because of the Andy Lippincott story

May 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 20

  1. Long and short term U.S. Natural Rate of Unemployment derivations?
  2. How do I not plagiarize myself
  3. Rule Of Not Ruling Anything (Out?)
  4. Australia
  5. Global net worth

May 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 21

  1. American soldiers and American society's regard for them
  2. Crucifixions with nails & rope
  3. Nuclear powers joining the nuclear non-proliferation treaty
  4. Phoenix Program targets / victims - "guilty" versus "innocent"
  5. Patron saints
  6. us senate
  7. Battles where a small number of troops have defeated a much larger force?

May 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 22

  1. Henry Nott
  2. Adam Benjamin photo

May 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 23

  1. Best Illuminati revival attempt so far?
  2. Anybody know the history of music?
  3. What is going on in Thailand?
  4. Benjamin L. Marks

May 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 24

  1. London to Toronto and Toronto to London trips and Toronto to Birmingham
  2. identity of a portrait
  3. Chinese phrase
  4. America, Capitalism and Christianity
  5. Environment, Capitalism and the Christian Right
  6. How to get archives of French newspapers?
  7. Stone Mountain in Georgia

May 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 25

  1. List of wali called upon in tawassul?
  2. Racism in pirate times?
  3. Is there such a graph that displays different regions of political views that correspond to two variables: economic and personal freedom?
  4. "Jerusalem" in Catholic churches

May 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 26

  1. René Gillotin, Portrait of Marquesan chiefs
  2. what is the meaning of "fructus est fullonius"
  3. Company debt collections
  4. Did Elliot Rodger have a mental illness
  5. Unanimous consent vs. 100-0
  6. Largest bank
  7. Question about the growth of Wikipedia
  8. Hesse-Philippsthal and Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld

May 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 27

  1. Ranavalo Manjaka
  2. Question about Chinese references to Indian monument
  3. Literal gold diggers
  4. American Legal System
  5. Are there Jewish or Christian equivalents to Islamic sharia law?
  6. Why is the Quds Force called the Quds Force

May 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 28

  1. Matching point sizes of different typefaces for visual size equivalence
  2. Henry Adams
  3. Term for a fellow disabled person
  4. European peoples who attend school in America
  5. Bias against people with disabilities?

May 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 29

  1. Serhiy Tihipko
  2. RICHARD WRIGHT
  3. Treason by another name, and the U.S. constitution
  4. Banking hours worldwide
  5. Stock market valuation
  6. The Russian Provisional Government's Decision to Remain in WWI Being Influenced by the United States's Decision to Enter WWI?
  7. Why aren't cards bigger?

May 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 30

  1. Not a cheese-eating surrender monkey
  2. Scenic Route, Dalkey to dublin
  3. Process of becoming a church member
  4. Music notation question
  5. Does playing chess make you smarter?
  6. Majority owner of public company

May 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 31

  1. Inquiry into the conviction of David Eastman
  2. Conversion to Judaism
  3. William Little Lee
  4. Indian toilets
  5. Did the majority of the Chinese and Soviet populations endure Axis occupation during WW2?
  6. Romans
  7. Movement of Soviet infrastructure east of the Urals during the GPW
  8. Homework
  9. Longest tenure in a US House district
  10. The Structure of Shakespearean Tragedy