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July 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 July 1

  1. UN Regulations
  2. In 1888, Belgian bank notes were changed to be bilingual, and this fact is mentioned in Dutch Wikipedia. Could you help me find a source?
  3. Do we have a reliable source for the cause of death of Louise d'Artois?

July 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 July 2

  1. Lang Leav poem
  2. U.S. politicians "working across the aisle"
  3. Are illegitimate sons included in the Bavarian line of succession if they've subsequently been legitimized?

July 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 July 4

  1. How do French people nowadays feel about France's colonial history in Algeria?
  2. Iranian tanker went through Gibraltar territorial waters, why?

July 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 July 6

  1. Bizarrely high prices for books
  2. Need help with reliable sources for Harry Hay - NAMBLA content
  3. Tyrers
  4. Queen Marau‘s travel in 1884
  5. Bell cast from silver coins
  6. The differences between males and females in sports performance

July 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 July 7

  1. Gruesome imprisonment

July 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 July 8

  1. Illegitimate royal children who were the designated heirs to a throne
  2. P. de los Iudeos in Baja California Sur
  3. Fraternal Brotherhood
  4. H. F. Verwoerd
  5. Did the people of New Mexico and Alta California prefer Mexican rule or US rule in 1848?

July 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 July 9

  1. Legal Compliance
  2. Did the leader of the US have to be a natural-born US citizen before the adoption of the US Constitution?
  3. Publishing an essay.
  4. US states that have or previously had only one legislative house

July 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 July 10

  1. Factors leading to independence modern nation by modern nation British empire
  2. Why didn't Louis, Count of Soissons ever marry or have any legitimate children?
  3. Herodotus Histories Volume II
  4. Pont del Diable chapel?

July 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 July 11

  1. When did land travel become extremely popular?
  2. Which ethnic group(s) lived in the St. Petersburg area before Peter I built it?
  3. WP:REFUND
  4. London Magazine
  5. Please identify a portrait with an inscription in Hebrew
  6. A Brady Bunch type of situation
  7. Are there any parties more left than >50% their electorate with conservative in their name?
  8. When did they stop making piers longer on Manhattan?

July 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 July 12

  1. Dry and wet colors
  2. "Coal and Power" enquiry - David Lloyd George
  3. Solomon Islands' country code SB: why?
  4. Is there a place where I can find the rate of natural increase of countries without taking into account immigrant death?
  5. Denying bail

July 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 July 13

  1. The diversity visa lottery and screening
  2. Italian connections
  3. drawing by Leonardo da Vinci ("Studies of water, and a seated old man")

July 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 July 14

  1. Pro-research help needed for Harry Hay
  2. When was the first time a nation became unsustainable without food imports or diaspora/colonizing?
  3. To swear on one's genitals

July 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 July 15

  1. Lady Wimborne's Hospital at Uskub

July 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 July 16

  1. German wifi
  2. Destinations of a defunct Swiss national airline
  3. Thomas Tobias (Tobiaszoon)

July 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 July 17

  1. G. O. Number: 85
  2. Significant Pre-Columbian structures in US/Canada?
  3. History of the tallest structures in the world (before Giza)

July 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 July 18

  1. Street Map with Baldwin NY School District Boundaries
  2. Ownership of Home Depot
  3. List of states with limited recognition

July 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 July 19

  1. Hypothetical question about a US state constitutional amendment process
  2. Chelsea Pleasure Gardens
  3. Why is his dead body inside a pyramid?

July 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 July 20

  1. Does the US Supreme Court actually have the power to declare a part of the US Constitution to be unconstitutional?
  2. Medieval German literature (done)
  3. Home for Wayward Boys

July 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 July 21

  1. French National Assembly
  2. Largest Pride parade in the world
  3. What nations other that the USA have had elections like clockwork for more than 100 years?

July 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 July 22

  1. Economy during the time of Jesus

July 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 July 23

  1. Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal?
  2. Signorelli parapraxis
  3. Brigadier general
  4. Roy J. Snell
  5. Wikipedia Article: The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation - Bought by Capital One Financial Corporation or Not?

July 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 July 24

  1. Czech Republic
  2. Warfare state
  3. Iran / North Korea
  4. The Story of the Three Bears
  5. Phantom books - purportedly published, but untraceable

July 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 July 25

  1. Becoming the UK PM
  2. Belgian Princes and Princesses
  3. British parliament procedure

July 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 July 26

  1. Jews and Christians
  2. Colony of the Queen Charlotte Islands
  3. Jury damage award

July 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 July 27

  1. Manticore
  2. Federal funds rate
  3. Ladies "literally sitting among" senators in the US Congress

July 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 July 28

  1. $1,000,000 in small bills, or you get your kid back in installments

July 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 July 29

  1. Northern border of Saudi Arabia
  2. insula
  3. USAAF in WWII
  4. Gödel and food

July 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 July 30

  1. Tag on WW2 planes
  2. Different pounds from different parts of the British Isles

July 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 July 31

  1. Has there ever been a full-scale assault rifle battle with nothing to hide behind?
  2. Iron Cross and MBE
  3. Help!
  4. Agra Pequena