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May 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 May 2

  1. Uprighting a vessel

May 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 May 3

  1. The Pencil of Nature
  2. Academic journal article authors
  3. equivalence to Classical period music in other parts of the world
  4. "Native American Culture"

May 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 May 4

  1. What ship evacuated Roy Campbell from Spain?
  2. Is Thames Publishing the same as Thames & Hudson?

May 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 May 5

  1. Why New Zealand is not a federal state for no reason like Australia?
  2. Why LIthuania is semi presidential republic not parliamentary republic?
  3. Kaïmakam of Aqaba
  4. Why Qatar is still listed as developing country according to wikipedia for no reason?
  5. Why Indonesia is not a federal state or federal government?
  6. I think China is a federal state due to its large area size

May 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 May 6

  1. Romans outlawing technology

May 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 May 7

  1. Pro-Japanese Warlords
  2. I am searching for the information on this flag

May 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 May 8

  1. Juliana (the font)
  2. Denominations
  3. Rudolf Hess, Carl Hess of Schleswig, a death in Devon, and a grave in Wales.
  4. Churchill in Bristol
  5. Hot wings vs. Buffalo wings

May 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 May 9

  1. Family Planning in Indonesia
  2. Presidential pins
  3. Unidentified symbol for "per"

May 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 May 10

  1. "old occupation"?
  2. Wikimedia and the law
  3. Theory of evil

May 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 May 11

  1. Misidentification
  2. Meaning of disvicarage, etc.
  3. Birthplace of Saussure

May 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 May 12

  1. A Masefield poem
  2. Litbel insignia?

May 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 May 13

  1. Monarch or consort of a monarch?
  2. Fish and chips in Mexico?

May 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 May 14

  1. Are lists on Wikipedia complete/ kept up to date? Have the criteria for notability in academics changed over time?
  2. Curiosity from 1927

May 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 May 15

  1. Spanish aristocratic numbering
  2. Who drew first hyper realistic artpiece ?

May 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 May 16

  1. name this crime
  2. Advertisements on money?
  3. King Robert of Naples executing his daughter and son-in-law

May 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 May 17

  1. English language encyclopedia

May 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 May 19

  1. Waiting periods for remarriage after divorce
  2. Clara Lemlich speech
  3. Mystery man in selfie
  4. Battle of Verdun (film)

May 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 May 21

  1. 'American European-American hybrids'
  2. Executions in Ancient Rome
  3. "We communists have a high casualty rate..."

May 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 May 23

  1. The color blue and its association with law enforcement/police

May 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 May 24

  1. documents that discuss the constitutional debate over slavery
  2. Last independent Jewish realm before Israel's independence
  3. Future of SMB games
  4. The Royal Broadcasts 1935

May 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 May 25

  1. Did Muslims preserve other Abrahamic texts?
  2. follow-up to house design in San Francisco

May 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 May 26

  1. Russia in the Central African Republic Civil War and African as a whole
  2. Determinism and predictability

May 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 May 27

  1. Eliza Jane White aka Ida L. White Chancery case
  2. Modern pre-Islamic worshipping
  3. What determines the proportions of stocks?
  4. Newspapers in Japan

May 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 May 28

  1. Roman Catholics entering the churches of other denominations.
  2. Popeye as theological allegory
  3. Why wasn't the Hagiwara family allowed to return to their home after the end of WWII?

May 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 May 29

  1. Pardon in Spain???
  2. "Bulgarian Folklore"
  3. Account or books about Lassen eruption

May 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 May 30

  1. Who is the priest in The House That Jack Built??
  2. Chief Justice; why isn't this title part of the Presidential line of succession??
  3. US shootings were attacker was shot by eyewitness
  4. American Indian Supreme Court Justice

May 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 May 31

  1. What's stopping WHO from calling disease with country names?