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April 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 April 1

1. Why the April Fools disruption?
2. what kind of plp in Japan do origami, school girls? Old bored housewives, kids?
3. Who is in charge of hiring in a big organization - Human Resources or the person who wants an employee?

April 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 April 2

1. Sweet breakfasts
2. Spanish sources on reburial of Riro Kāinga
3. Word for the belief that all religions are the "same"
4. Are young people less likely to be religious worldwide?
5. Malaya

April 3

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1. Ancient Egyptians
2. china and political dissent
3. Is my £5 note worth more?
4. USPS central hub
5. fly between Japan and US

April 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 April 4

1. Search of original French Author of the verse that follows.
2. Proper name of Iranian confectioner's union
3. Business model of construction companies
4. Prince2
5. Mid-20th Century Dutch Liberal Political Philosophers and Political Theorists
6. New pyramid discovered in Egypt
7. Judaism, Christianity
8. Memorizing final digits of multiples of powers of 5

April 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 April 5

1. Do supermarkets allow people to wash produce in the public restrooms?
2. Tearing clothes
3. Wheel clamps

April 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 April 6

1. Economics of intensive animal farming
2. Riba plan of work
3. Karen Straughan Page Request
4. Swiss central bank Euro reserves
5. Engineering and project management equivalent roles

April 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 April 7

1. Forced Renunciation of Religion in the Workplace?
2. Africa as the next manufacturing centre
3. Client side engineering assurance in PRINCE2
4. Who invented WD-40?
5. Newfoundlandish independence
6. on the recent bombing in Syria
7. Who is the woman next to Mitch McConnell in this photo?
8. Obscurantism and Friedrich von Hayek

April 8

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1. British Civil Service
2. Do the children of medical doctors have better healthcare than those of non-physicians?
3. Social norm, leg crossing
4. MREs

April 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 April 9

1. Personal Property Tax
2. Definition of "white" in UK Census
3. Leper colony on Easter Island
4. elected cabinet
5. Request to alter the names.
6. Terrorist tactics
7. Biblical pigs
8. Trump administration and Syria
9. Why do people hate prostitutes and support the system at the same time?
10. Source establishing Robert's Rules of Order as the predominant authority on parliamentary procedure in the US
11. History--Casablanca Conference

April 10

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1. costs to build vessels
2. Bromance, Womance . . . other?
3. Was Isis the Egyptian version of Aphrodite?
4. If Cleopatra were to apply for a job nowadays, what would she be best at? Why?

April 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 April 11

1. Nonviolent resistance
2. Template:Muslim saints

April 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 April 12

1. airline price cap law
2. Secular perspective on the origin of the Quran?
3. The rich and powerful
4. Jesus' "missing years"
5. Insurance
6. Why was Jesus crucified?
7. What's the expected value of the number of years before the first big insurance firm is bankrupted by asteroid or comet?

April 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 April 13

1. Can non-European countries join the European Union?
2. Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in 1789 France
3. How could Dao come back to his flight?
4. Can people go to police departments as safe shelters?

April 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 April 14

1. HMS Roselys
2. Was Cleopatra literate?
3. How is household income calculated if it's a multi-income household?
4. Can supermarkets predict consumer behavior if consumers base their decisions on what the supermarkets promote with reduced prices?
5. Working for the government
6. Can nature be blamed for killing people?
7. Is the practice of not eating meat on the Good Friday a Catholic thing?
8. Dowry
9. Chicken tikka masala and General Tso's chicken
10. change of meaning of "conservative"?

April 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 April 15

1. Objections to death by stoning and "human rights"
2. Modern day liberalism and social democracy
3. taxi from Chicago to Louisville
4. Biographies of mayors that I should use as reference?
5. Centuries

April 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 April 16

1. Were college students in the past pressured by their families to attend university?
2. Résumé and childrearing skills
3. Since the nautical day ends at noon,
4. a telling omission
5. What are the battles/wars in which Egypt took part in, under Cleopatra's rule?
6. Study on the psychology between the rich and poor
7. Ruthenian (Byzantine Catholic) Easter Dinner and Passover Seder plate

April 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 April 17

1. Increased presence of Asian vegetables in a non-Asian American supermarket
2. World War II military assassinations
3. Engineering
4. industry in The UK
5. Nazis and debt-free currency
6. Exams
7. At what point does a group of people become indigenous?
8. Initials for US presidents
9. (In)defeasible estates

April 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 April 18

1. Bishop [firstname] in the CofE
2. Bath and Wells at the Coronation
3. The honest pharmacist who became minister of health
4. Term of Parliament under current law
5. Project management office
6. Who or what USA thing is closest to UK political parties and recent party leaders?
7. Galleria dei Prigioni
8. Can having one or two children in marriage fix poverty?
9. WWII Eastern Front

April 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 April 19

1. Sodaless Sunday
2. Israel and the Iraq war
3. Researching the military formation of a WW2 US officer when the source is wrong
4. "Feast of Victory Over Forces of Evil"
5. Why was my answer to Medeis's question deleted
6. Mysterious Image of Lima, Peru
7. Why are pricy cigars blended to remove annual variation but expensive wine isn't and has vintages?
8. Question about Canada's First Nations
9. Where can I fly in a DC-3?
10. Limits of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act
11. The Wandering Englishman of Dettingen
12. Penal inequality

April 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 April 20

1. Why do American supermarkets have so many varieties of apples?
2. Chicken giblets
3. Average age of first funeral
4. Marae Mahaiatea
5. Spree killers committing suicide in North America, but apparently less often elsewhere
6. God may forgive you, but I never can
7. UK general election 1940 cancelled due to war
8. 9-day-old pease porridge
9. Nuclear arms race
10. How did apprenticeships work?

April 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 April 21

1. Steganography in books
2. Sources concerning Abraham Salamé
3. Social class in the Far East vs Europe
4. Medieval Sea Travel - Speed, Length, Time
5. Social class of immigrants

April 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 April 22

1. May 1958 crisis in France
2. "preventable illness"
3. Has anyone ever died in a tai chi accident?
4. Fairfield, Connecticut
5. What is the difference between polling and campaign analytics?
6. Is the March for Science American or global?
7. Tracing Robert Sheckley short story
8. Why did people make single-sex schools?

April 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 April 23

1. Radios/televisions in waiting rooms
2. At what point does a person become a gentleman/-woman?
3. Ideologies
4. Deaths in the Great Depression
5. International Crisis in France 1937
6. British police
7. Do people still have to "do their taxes" (whatever that means) if they already receive money in a pay card?

April 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 April 24

1. Radical flank effect
2. What's the problem of a trade surplus like the German or Chinese one?
3. Continents and Landmasses drifting apart. How fast ?
4. Why did some families give daughters an unusually high education?

April 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 April 25

1. Minimum requirements of Anglicanism?
2. How uk government works
3. What's the minimum amount of paper $ or £ redeemable for gov't gold right before the 1929 Crash?
4. International Building Code
5. Late medieval pattern books for art
6. Marquis of Bath
7. Muffetiere
8. One of Sir Walter Ralegh's judges

April 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 April 26

1. Maps of the Spring and Autumn Period
2. On what charges was she executed?
3. Passing a bill vs. implementing a bill (US)
4. celebrity endorsements on politicians

April 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 April 27

1. Are there cultures/countries where people don't sniff flowers?
2. WWII maps
3. Has a fight stopped IRL for everyone to look at a rolling explosive or NCBR weapon then started the instant the danger passed?
4. Jane Eyre and missionaries to India
5. Biography of the Black Duke

April 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 April 28

1. Are people supposed to order several things at a restaurant at different times or at one time?
2. When does time fly or drag??
3. Is owning a human automatically slavery?
4. Childe Harold

April 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 April 29

1. Taxes and Tax Return
2. Denying the holocaust
3. Benoit Hamon communes PS primaries

April 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 April 30

1. Modern Enid Blyton reprints
2. Confederacy at the end of the war: Southern independence vs the preservation of slavery
3. Cookbooks
4. Schengen rules and refugees in Germany
5. What jurisdiction's license plate has the most possible combinations?
6. Why do Australians and Canadians and Americans use the dollar while the British use pounds and pennies?
7. Reserves in North America Indigenous peoples
8. national monuments to block mining
9. Bernie sanders and Tony Blair equivalents
10. Bloodiest day in history?
11. Why did these MPs resign?
12. Hawaiian female suffrage