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= January 1 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 1

1. Why Buddhism no more in India?
2. Parmailitaries killing each other during "The Troubles" in Northern Ireland
3. What's the oldest patriotic song in the world?
4. Solomon and the baby

= January 2 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 2

1. U.S. law and order
2. Cultural structure of social media communities
3. Essex man
4. The Questions of King Milinda
5. The accuracy of the first world map ever!

= January 3 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 3

1. troops volunteered when they enlisted for Vietnam
2. Cultural upheaval
3. Do you know about MCLR, and how MCLR is different from the base rate?
4. Alternatives to AFF
5. Ingersoll on Moses
6. US constitutional definition of treason - "declaring war on the US"?

= January 4 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 4

1. Did anyone ever add anachronistic KJV-style verse numbers to pre-verse manuscripts?
2. 4th January
3. The Pledge of Allegiance
4. Why UK wanted to protect Poland back then?
5. Elections and very poor turnout
6. Homer, Iliad

= January 5 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 5

1. 1881 US and UK political cartoons
2. Prisoner's dilemma with countries
3. British demographics
4. Presiding Officer of the United States Senate
5. Nuclear option
6. How did ethical eating become non-religious?

= January 6 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 6

1. Airport as a gateway
2. US Vice President state car
3. Political ideology
4. Shieldmaiden = Virgin?

= January 7 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 7

1. Office clothings and skin problems
2. Ranking literature
3. Restricting access to contraception and abortion
4. E. Linde

= January 8 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 8

1. Adolf Hitler's plan fr france
2. World War I and II Impact on Global Demographics

= January 9 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 9

1. 1901 regular session journal for Hawaii Senate
2. Religious question
3. What happened to Union garrisons stationed in the cotton states at the outbreak of the US Civil War?
4. Razing Fort McHenry in the Battle of Baltimore - what did it hope to achieve?
5. Radio
6. Outsiders looking at medieval and early modern Europe

= January 10 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 10

1. Who built Cuba's Granma boat?
2. Someone (not sure if the same) one is removing religions out of historical people's tool box (and one famous person)
3. Why is marriage regulated by the government?
4. Syracusia
5. New York Times History
6. Steamship Asia

= January 11 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 11

1. Nuclear option
2. Taiwanese flag banned/censored in Mainland China?
3. Existence of "Mont Terri Castle" in Switzerland, no source found

= January 12 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 12

1. global warming, Pope Francis, First Things
2. Catholic believe: did God create EVERYTHING
3. What is PayPal?

= January 13 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 13

1. Official Declaration 1
2. Millennials
3. The economics of slave ownership vs cheap "free man" labour

= January 14 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 14

1. Ancient Greek cremation
2. Hinduism deities names
3. Hawaii County Act 1903

= January 15 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 15

1. First purpose-built/dedicated courthouse
2. Tanks, instead of men, in the front-line of Normandy landings?
3. US Supreme Court
4. Source for Helen Suzman quote

= January 16 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 16

1. Global Inequality and the Golden Billion
2. Did a general really believe that if the Cold War blocs had 2 survivors & 1 then the side with 2 wins?
3. Renewable Heat Incentive scandal
4. Declarations of independence prior to July 4 1776

= January 17 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 17

1. Has anybody done anything except stand on the moon? Kneel, sit, lay?
2. Can tankers really take off from aircraft carriers?
3. Why (at usa presidential election) you need 50%+1 electoral votes to win the election by usual means, but you dont need 50%+1 population votes to be the winner of some state?
4. Wall Street and Bay Street counterparts
5. Why did doctors visit patients' houses?

= January 18 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 18

1. Indian religions swastika mistake for Nazi
2. quote is bugging me
3. Plank roads

= January 19 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 19

1. Anti Muslim hate crimes that have turned out to be fake
2. Risshū (Buddhism)
3. Imperial Household Law
4. More than one President
5. Inauguration Day
6. Which latitude and longitude crosses the most countries in the world?
7. What's the best place to read 50% probability-bad Trump scenarios, 10%, 1% and so on written by experts?
8. Question on policies and removing a page
9. What do you call the symmetrical folds around the mouth ion this face?
10. Is it really accurate to describe Trump as fascist?

= January 20 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 20

1. When did the tanks arrive?
2. When does the handover happen?
3. Environmental policies of Hitler
4. noon
5. Is gender bias a kind of cognitive bias?
6. YAL
7. Is social class determined by income level or standard of living?
8. Sinjar, Yazidis, U.S. intervention
9. 1lib1ref
10. Orthodox Jewish hat boxes

= January 21 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 21

1. Judge cartoon
2. How did food surplus create class division?
3. Bibliography book
4. Rory of the Hills
5. Squares for protesting

= January 22 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 22

1. In what era was the developed world's imports from the developing the highest percent of the latter's GDP?
2. Monotheism and Plato
3. Use of genealogy books among persons of Korean descent in North America

= January 23 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 23

1. What are the Guidelines for Government Classification in Wikipedia?
2. Official wiki-social-media
3. "Old way of politics"?
4. UK elections - winning multiple seats

= January 24 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 24

1. Why call country communist?
2. Dependency/Territory? Any difference?
3. How did people with gluten sensitivities survive in the Middle Ages?
4. Do Canadians ever come to the United States illegally?

= January 25 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 25

1. Scotland
2. Executive orders
3. Waterboarding and diminishing returns
4. Polygamy
5. American murderers fleeing to Canada to avoid the death penalty
6. International income inequality
7. Car makers in Canada and the US and Mexico
8. Fiction without conflict
9. No civilian aviation over the USA
10. Where should we put a record of Trump's actions in office?

= January 26 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 26

1. How many of these orders seem likely to happen?
2. US Secretary of State
3. US judicial system
4. Introduction to Economics
5. Ideology
6. Which religious group has the longest religious text? Longest canon?
7. H. G. Wells

= January 27 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 27

1. Defunct holidays
2. Trying to recall shorty story/novella about buying land
3. Social Science Quarterly
4. The South Pacific Times
5. Psychological experiments similar to Stanford prison experiment or Milgram experiment
6. Taxation as theft
7. Internal Autonomy Day

= January 28 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 28

1. Unemployment benefits
2. Asia
3. Are there border markers on the Great Lakes at the US-Canada border?
4. Actual airspace defence in the U.S., and other western countries
5. Cadences

= January 29 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 29

1. How many ‘Rassenschänderin’ did the fascists penalize?
2. Did "feme sole" exist in any other nation but England?

= January 30 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 30

1. Soviet Union and the Congo Crisis.
2. Questions about the José Medellín murder case
3. Nanjing Massacre - availability of sources

= January 31 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 31

1. Benoit Hamon primary win by departments and communes
2. Terrorist groups by ethnicity/nationality/religion
3. What's this kind of mate called?
4. Events
5. Trying to look for a library that carries this book
6. Is Peter Navarro Hispanic?