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February 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 February 1

1. Agency ranking private schools in Mexico
2. Two similar men?
3. Contemporary realist painter: series of paintings of young adults partying
4. What plantation did this person live on before the Civil War?
5. Non-judicial agreement
6. Viking boat construction

February 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 February 2

1. Machine-gun firing squads
2. Who is the celebrated "Rudpiki"?
3. Creativity and Innovation
4. Global Economic Inequality and the Law
5. Capitalism and Anti-Communism in India

February 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 February 3

1. UN parade with US troops from Korean conflict 1952
2. Copyright assertions by dead people
3. Could Woody Allen be indicted?
4. Jack Cornwell VC shell splinters
5. Wealth and Divine Reward
6. America, Australia and Secular Republics

February 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 February 4

1. Nellie McClung
2. article help
3. Oliver Sipple
4. Name of a painting (and artist)

February 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 February 5

1. Private surveillance questions
2. Benemerent Metal
3. End of inheritance estates
4. Is this legal the way this guy is filming this "drug addict" in Vancouver?
5. Olympic sports
6. Health insurance and employers

February 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 February 6

1. Jus solis vs. jus sanguinis principles in running for president in the U.S
2. Citing and Reference
3. 2 notes played at the same time question.
4. Ads
5. Receiving immunity
6. Anyone ever actually been found and rescued thanks to their Breitling Emergency watch?

February 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 February 7

1. Wealth, Justice, and Superpowers
2. Origin of surname
3. "It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness" origin
4. How do you plead?
5. What is the The Percy Anecdotes?
6. Percy's anecdotes and pay for Scottish soldiers
7. Who was the first female Lutheran pastor?
8. Orignin of surname Or Shahar
9. America, Republic and Empire

February 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 February 8

1. Environmental Impact of Christian Countries
2. gay organized crime mafia?
3. "Marriage is promised" What does it mean
4. What lies ahead? request for horoscope)
5. Looking for books
6. Trade Unionism in Banking in India

February 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 February 9

1. Woodrow Wilson
2. "Final Solution"
3. Travel times in 1870's New England

February 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 February 10

1. Music Kaetlyn Osmond skated to in the long program today?
2. Identifying a fairytale/fable
3. Probability and Law?
4. Buloburde = Bulo Burto ? (Somalia)
5. Which competitions has Italian classical saxophonist Mario Marzi won?
6. OED definition of "Scientific Method"
7. Reasons for the one parent requirement minimum in jus sanguinis citizenship?

February 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 February 11

1. What's the battle flag of the Confederate States Army?
2. Indian name complexity
3. Pseudonymous authors who keep/kept their identities secret for unknown or undisclosed reasons
4. First convents in Ireland since the English conquest?

February 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 February 12

1. Portugal in Africa
2. Who crowned Henry V?
3. Anne Seymour Damer and the Walpoles
4. winter olympics nations that have snow
5. Closest spot to equator to regularly get snow ?
6. How many people had personal computers with Internet connection in 1997?
7. Same-sex marriage among indigenous people in Canada
8. Blazons
9. Why is Astronaut Group 20 called "The Chumps"?

February 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 February 13

1. Typical Monday, Tuesday, Friday, or Saturday for a devout, practicing Catholic during the days outside of Lent and Advent?
2. ca. 1970s science fiction short stories about an "intersexual" vampire race.

February 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 February 14

1. Railway jurisdiction
2. Name of the Female Athlete in the Pink Costume Here
3. Valentine's Day

February 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 February 15

1. The Church of England, the Sovereign, and the Prime Minister
2. White people in Togo & Benin.

February 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 February 16

1. Manner of death
2. Marcin Ignaczak
3. Bank loans to corporations, and directors' personal guarantees
4. Sex = Love

February 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 February 17

1. Vietnamese protest in Washington 1974
2. how do we go about finding donnors for an income project for non governmental organization
3. Croydon Crook
4. Secession from the Russian Federation? (was USSR Dissolution)
5. Why more Indian indentured workers were imported, not Chinese to Guyana?
6. Can a country be led by a dead person?
7. Soviet Adam and Eve book

February 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 February 18

1. Kickstarter for causes?
2. Contradiction at Luke 1:48 (NIV) and Luke 11:27-28 (ESV)
3. "How do you plead to the specification ?"

February 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 February 19

1. Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam
2. Obituary
3. Worldwide depression data set
4. Identify this 1840s woman
5. Are any pre or inter-war German MPs still alive?
6. Sociological Effects of the "New Rich"
7. Name changes and married names among the nobles and et cetera
8. Lady Franklin's Travel
9. Postrace
10. Happiness

February 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 February 20

1. Waltz played S01E01 American Version of House of Cards?
2. Color changes over historical time
3. Afroyim v. Rusk and John Demjanjuk
4. Why this ultra specific tuning is used in music?
5. arbitration where parties can't agree on an arbitrator
6. Importing and exporting stuff
7. contact info. for Inchegeri Sampradaya in India / contact info. for english speaking Disciples of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
8. How did the Catholic Church rise to power and become abusive during the Middle Ages?
9. Robert's Rules of Order

February 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 February 21

1. DWK statue
2. Moral event horizon: does morality exist in North Korea?
3. Nappy pack sizes
4. White opposition to the Jim Crow laws
5. Appliance kidnapping?

February 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 February 23

1. Soviet women's national teams
2. Secrecy of execution statistics
3. Shakespeare
4. Montrose Baptist Church in Rockville, MD
5. Ukraine peacefully coexist with both European Union and Russia

February 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 February 24

1. Anne Hathaway
2. Missing article in Wikipedia
3. Can one call oneself "Right Reverend Father" whilst defrocked and excommunicated?
4. is it okay to eat cheese with white hairy mold in it internally
5. 71 sects of judaism, 72 sects of christianity and 73 sects of islam
6. Eponymous law regarding failure of business following building an expensive corporate headquarters
7. Martha Washington College

February 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 February 25

1. Small Catechism in Modern Times
2. Origin of surname "Bohiw"
3. MARIA LUISA PARK - SEVILLE - SPAIN

February 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 February 26

1. Navamsa chart
2. Help me to answer this question or find the flaw in this analogy
3. Why are there so many Catholics in the Western mediterranean countries?
4. Do Muslims even proselytize in the West?
5. why do brits know the nato (phonetic) alphabet so much better than Americans?
6. Kreishauptmann und Beamtentum

February 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 February 27

1. Why would a human brand a human with a 'heart' back when slavery was still, y'know, legal?
2. Autism Anorak
3. Which 2013 Major League Baseball pitcher had the best batting average?
4. O HENRY's The Romance of a busy broker
5. Pocket watches
6. Did a higher % of Ancient Chinese works survive compared to Greco-Roman?
7. Cyrano de Bergerac in the digital age
8. How did Christianity spring from a not-so-proselytizing religion?
9. Military artists
10. "A different kind of gay"

February 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 February 28

1. Peculiar sound
2. Number of convictions in Ireland
3. Is there a Western secular equivalent to "Honor your mother and your father" or "filial piety" or some form of parental respect?
4. Correspondence with Japanese death-row inmates?
5. Is any wikibook on history used in any school?