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May 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 1

  1. Salvation Army
  2. US debt 2
  3. Northern Ireland GIS website
  4. Middle East races

May 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 2

  1. To what extent does gross private domestic investment determine the rate of growth?
  2. Limbo (needs more definition)
  3. Subnational teams competing at the national level
  4. Great Cleveland Sickout -- are RNC delegates really required to vote?
  5. People and places
  6. Cebuano wiki
  7. UK Banks issuing MasterCard/Maestro Debit cards
  8. Birth and death Statistics
  9. Atlantis
  10. Front matter

May 3

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  1. Judaism and the law
  2. Societal evolution of taboos

May 4

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  1. Condeming Condemning/Denying permission to make a movie
  2. Are the remaining Republican Party presidential primaries still held if a nominee already has the required number of delegates?
  3. William Henry Dimond
  4. Physical Exemptions from Conscription
  5. Is Mexico willing to exhange land for Baja California?
  6. Battleships which never saw combat
  7. Ted Cruz' last week or so

May 5

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  1. What happens if a nominee for U.S. President is no longer available or interested after he receives the nomination?
  2. Ruskin's List of the Best Hundred Authors
  3. Esther Meynell - alleged Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury

May 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 6

  1. Currency equivalents
  2. Medieval bridges?

May 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 7

  1. Is HMNB Devonport still the biggest naval base in Western Europe?
  2. Project management
  3. Are warship battle honours considered heritable?
  4. medieval Hospitals?
  5. Impact of floods on rural medieval cities?
  6. Commercial viability

May 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 8

  1. Historiography
  2. what did he do during 1939-1945 ?
  3. Why did Stanisław Mackiewicz went back to Poland?
  4. Corporate culture in non profit and government organisations

May 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 9

  1. Republican resignations
  2. Francis Lathom
  3. Secret Six
  4. Source of a quotation - dim religious light

May 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 10

  1. How is it possible that a Secretary of State would never encounter classified material while on the job?

May 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 11

  1. Colorado referendum 1992

May 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 12

  1. First knowledge of the Great Pyramid in the West?
  2. British chapel at Athens
  3. A street in Athens
  4. Is antivenin really 2,000 times cheaper in India?
  5. Immovable judges
  6. Is kohl popular in Israel?

May 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 13

  1. Grave of Charlez Russel
  2. All-time total UK MPs
  3. Andersen (?) fairytale
  4. History
  5. Anglo Saxon Kings of England

May 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 14

  1. Finding source in Paradise of the Pacific
  2. Oak Apple Day
  3. Farrah Abraham
  4. ISIS uniforms

May 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 16

  1. Shares of stock
  2. Currency basket
  3. Perceptions of "the beginning of history" in England vs. the rest of Britain and Ireland
  4. When were totem poles first descibed in writing?
  5. Magyar raids in Northern France?

May 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 17

  1. It's clearly a budget
  2. Elector system trouble scenario
  3. If a real priest, minister or rabbi played the same in a marrying scene?

May 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 18

  1. Would it be legal for Hillary Clinton to name Bill Clinton as her running mate?

May 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 19

  1. How can you sue an entire country?
  2. Which kind of yellow jacket?
  3. Parentage of Harvey Bailey

May 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 20

  1. If either of the front running presidential candidates were to die or become incapacitated before the general election, what would happen?
  2. Vice President of the USA - Question 1
  3. Vice President of the USA - Question 2
  4. Photos of August Natterer
  5. Who was W.G?
  6. Execution vs. suicide
  7. Psychology of gambling

May 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 21

  1. Four mosques in St. Cloud, Minnesota
  2. Reason for Xiamen – Shenzhen – Seattle flight route
  3. Hijacking PRC airliners to gain political asylum in Taiwan
  4. don't get it...

May 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 22

  1. circumvent the Jones Act by Hawaii/Alaska-Vancouver-Seattle
  2. What happened to the nightclub(s) in Russia where naked men swim in fish tanks?
  3. Has there ever been an external tariff?
  4. Can someone tell me why social people don't want to dance before midnight?
  5. Do drug addicts ever love the substance?
  6. Landscape Drama and Music

May 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 23

  1. 41st United States Colored Troops
  2. What is sound banking?
  3. References

May 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 24

  1. Price of a bottle of Coca-Cola in ~1916
  2. Benjamin Jowett's translation[s] of Plato
  3. Paul Stahl (soldier)
  4. Scenario
  5. Oxford University reforms 1854
  6. Leigh Hunt's speech impediment

May 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 25

  1. Do transsexual bathroom rights come with a dress code or identity check?
  2. Male and female attraction to breasts
  3. Scorsese surname origin

May 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 26

  1. Building at top of Mount of Olives
  2. Advantage of currency depreciation

May 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 27

  1. Haircuts and gender roles

May 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 28

  1. Trans-Pacific Partnership
  2. How long is a term of office (for presidency) at the NAACP?

May 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 29

  1. Famous quotes with name of person who made quote unknown
  2. The World Firsts Page

May 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 30

  1. how and why is the harmonic curve you see on the neck of a concert or Paraguayan harp, or the treble bridge of a piano is calculated.
  2. Secondary school-level reading lists

May 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 31

  1. America/Boise
  2. Wealthy people
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