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August 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 1

1. Why are the Big Four all private companies?
2. Differences and similarities Quebeckers and Acadians
3. Historic map of Acadia in Canada
4. Left-handed people

August 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 2

1. 22nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry during Maryland Campaign
2. Pedigree collapse

August 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 3

1. How many country's currency have Braille and/or tactile features on them?
2. Donduk Kuular
3. "VERMIS 40·PE·LŌ" on Carta Marina
4. Hungarian border fence and Asian immigrants

August 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 4

1. Existentialist ideas in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2. Blazon for the University of London#Coat of arms ?
3. Median wealth of single African-American women
4. According to anti-Semites, how does the Jewish conspiracy to control everything actually work?
5. Planned Parenthood funding
6. Do rapists consume more porn than non-rapists?

August 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 5

1. Songs about Lucifer in Latin during Mass
2. d. aft
3. 41st Regiment Infantry U.S. Colored Troops

August 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 6

1. Missouri Civil War monument
2. Mexican-American War
3. Repression and dissent in USA.
4. Women suffrage in pre-1795 Poland?
5. Question about cursive handwriting
6. Was Leonardo da Vinci Italian?
7. Significance of a virgin-martyr in Christianity
8. Tampico Affair?

August 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 7

1. USS Plunger (SS-2)
2. When did China learn about America
3. Individuals who funded the American revolutionary war
4. Supreme Court: Decision in Shelby County v. Holder, Doc. 12-96
5. Criminal issues arising from withheld information

August 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 8

1. Closing down the shop. A big shop.
2. Tipping & Sales Tax

August 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 9

1. Why does McDonalds use cardboard boxes to store its sandwiches?
2. Renaissance models
3. "Flat Earth" conspiracy theories
4. VE Day and VJ Day

August 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 10

1. Psychobiography Resources on Internet
2. Abrahamic Religions
3. heroic flight attendant
4. Axieri

August 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 11

1. Ticker symbol being unrelated to the company name
2. Cleopatra's Nose
3. Corruption of Minors
4. Blackest country on earth?
5. What was that book? Dark comedy involving the Rorschach Test
6. Artist
7. Promethean Society

August 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 12

1. 33, Chambers Street, Boston, Massachusetts
2. Baron Genet, French minister
3. Joyce Bennett OBE, Anglican priest, Hong Kong
4. Why hasn't the U.S. enacted an oil import tariff?

August 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 13

1. What is the family relationship called between two sets of in-laws?
2. UK legal system
3. World's 10 best newspapers
4. 49th State
5. Flag questions related to above

August 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 14

1. Ealing cake
2. Where are the flags?

August 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 15

1. Who are the closest family members to become Presidents of the USA?
2. Longest term served as a US President or Vice President or both combined
3. Why are members of Congress exempt from criminal laws?
4. President and Prime Minister
5. King and Emperor
6. Foundation for Defense of Democracies
7. How to stop agenda accounts on Islam related articles
8. Finsbury Sculpture - Why?! (re: sculptor Stephen Cox, Faceted Column)

August 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 16

1. Prince Consort

August 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 17

1. European Union, the United Nations and the Euro
2. Stock exchange
3. Average Jewish vs. German wealth (or lack thereof)

August 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 18

1. Everyday
2. Controversial computer programmer/scientist/hacker
3. Ports
4. Abraham Woodhull
5. Sawn in two
6. Septuagint abbreviation

August 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 19

1. Do Muslims focus on advertising or proselytizing in Muslim-majority countries?
2. Coins with hole
3. Social situations
4. Philome Obin
5. Who is this watercolor Artist Rathbun?

August 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 20

1. How much more work was making enough wampum to make a living?
2. Philome Obin
3. Native Hawaiian suffrage

August 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 21

1. Why do runners from Kenya always dominate running races?
2. British Currency Post-Elizabeth II
3. Identify portrait of a 16th-century Maghrebinian ruler

August 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 22

1. Trading floor of the stock market
2. did de Gaulle say this?
3. User User:Ser Amantio di Nicolao mass-editing wrongly. Question about the nature of Wikipedia.
4. Traditional Spanish music

August 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 23

1. Is there a standard font for formal or professional writing?
2. English translations of Proust
3. reference needed

August 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 24

1. China
2. America and the World's Richest Country
3. Insurance and Helping the Poor
4. When you purchase a grave plot, for how long do you own that plot?
5. When do the university rankings come out?
6. The Ashley Madison class action and its' particular plaintiff

August 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 25

1. First Nations and Native American men and long hair
2. Whole Earth Catalog copyright
3. Importance of the United States cabinet
4. Colonies with political representation in the mother country
5. Is Evensong part of high-church Anglicanism or low-church Anglicanism?

August 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 26

1. Stock market index futures
2. The rule of the thread of the channel and organized incorporated territories
3. What is the point of an established church?

August 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 27

1. What happens with a criminal conviction when an appeal is taken but the defendant dies?

August 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 28

1. What university rankings are relevant to choose the right degree at the right place?
2. Why take a more expensive name brand drug when a less expensive generic drug is available?
3. Maximum behavioral differences between men and women
4. Coast Guard on US Navy ships
5. Low-angle shots
6. A sculptor's quote
7. Replicated areas

August 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 29

1. Was Perseus on the Argo?
2. Stairway to heaven?
3. Non whites in the UK (1960s/70s)

August 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 30

1. Psychological/rhetorical device
2. Subdivisions of BiH
3. Geschiedenis van ???scafanders???
4. Are the JMSDF ship naming conventions codified somewhere?
5. Frontline management
6. What is the racial composition of each major political party in the USA?
7. Five-headed horse figure

August 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 31

1. Democracy in the USA.
2. How was the white French battle flag differentiated from the white surrender flag?
3. Civil disobedience
4. Cheese production in Togo
5. does zhong kui carry a book? maybe the book of life and death?
6. Handing someone an item in Japan
7. Committing a crime on an international border..?
8. Children dancing around a crocodile