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June 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 June 1

  1. How to institute a mandatory fiduciary duty to support macroeconomic growth?
  2. Drawing of Pōmare II
  3. Charity in the United States
  4. Neon lights and advertisements of NYC's Times Square vs. of areas in some Asian cities
  5. National cemeteries
  6. Mitt Romney's position on war

June 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 June 2

  1. Nobel prize
  2. Marquesan chiefs
  3. modern equilvalent to 'ocean travel' type luggage (trunk)
  4. Time from election to inauguration
  5. Why Ohnesorg protested against Reza Pahlavi's visit
  6. why are singing roles usually tied to a voice register?
  7. who's who in australia
  8. What present-day issues would a sequel of Groundhog Day entail?
  9. Institute for the Revision of History

June 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 June 3

  1. Utilitarianism and perfect information?
  2. Queen Pomare IV's Letters
  3. Chinese marriage history question
  4. law for demonstrations in the United States
  5. Highest number of illegitimate children
  6. Largest Muslim population in Europe 2

June 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 June 4

  1. Voting demographics
  2. Armenians on USA/Armenian Americans
  3. European Union licence plate
  4. Just curious
  5. What are the laws about filing a stupid legal case?

June 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 June 5

  1. Historians and jesus
  2. White people with Chinese & Japanese ancestry?
  3. Nazism and World War 2 inevitable result of German history?
  4. Japan and Korea
  5. Is it Legal in the United States to Order Medicine Online From Other Countries?
  6. Long piece of fiction, written by reclusive author and only discovered and published after his death?
  7. NHRKC report on North Korean camps
  8. vista
  9. Henry William Pitcher VC

June 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 June 6

  1. Correct etiquette in awkward situation?
  2. Quick question about Christian Science
  3. Pronunciation of "Renvoi"?
  4. The end is nigh, ok, but nigh to where ?
  5. Will in England
  6. Palestinian Christians
  7. an A$5.4 millions?

June 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 June 7

  1. Do Democrats demand elections without ID?
  2. Scott Walker and collective bargaining
  3. Why no new Shakers?
  4. Eid ul Fitr and Eid ul Adha january 4th
  5. Roman Catholic Europe
  6. Parliamentary papers
  7. S. S. Hill
  8. dual nationality - usa & UK

June 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 June 8

  1. Adrien-Marie de Morveau
  2. Atheist pope
  3. Boshin War
  4. Nisour Massacre video
  5. Royal Family of Belgium
  6. The Highwayman
  7. Netherlands religion

June 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 June 9

  1. Dutch French German Catholic Protestants Belgium Switzerland Luxembourg
  2. Mongolian Buddhism in the West
  3. economy
  4. Yi and Li
  5. Clips And Clipboards
  6. Who do many Islamic countries seem to have poor regard for human rights?
  7. Four Symbols
  8. Average article size
  9. How to teach the unteachable?
  10. Water Consumption

June 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 June 10

  1. A question on the birther thing
  2. Who is this person, associated with the England Euro2012 football team?
  3. Are attorneys sticking to tax haven advice providing incompetent opinions?
  4. The right of a husband to incarcerate his wife in a convent
  5. The highest ranking female servant
  6. Elephant + "Crimson wave" = ?
  7. Searching for the name of a magazine similar to Foreign Affairs
  8. Word arguement

June 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 June 11

  1. Removal of shoes in religion
  2. Germanic people hair and eye colours
  3. Any info on life of Bernard G Marshall, writer?
  4. Life imitating Science Fiction
  5. Liberian presidential doctorates
  6. The Union Flag and Scottish Independence
  7. Looking for a complete list of biblical quotes regarding salvation

June 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 June 12

  1. French-Scottish Union
  2. Literally what was the deer park at Sarnath? (Buddhism)
  3. Descent of Queen Elizabeth from Mohammed
  4. Manfred Stern : a link to a US newspaper , please.
  5. Was Guam once part of the Philippines?
  6. Floor Designation in Hungary
  7. european prime ministers
  8. German and French Luxembourg
  9. Afghan provinces Tajiks, Hazaras and Pashtos
  10. History Books on Tahiti

June 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 June 13

  1. Radack Islands
  2. Kofi Annan
  3. Biblical scholarship on Jehovah's Witnesses' practices and beliefs
  4. Can someone explain economics to me?
  5. I would like to request a biography of John F. Cavanagh an inventor with over 100 patents. Summarizing the patents and also his son John Jr. and Paul.
  6. How is Kim Jong-un better than Kim Jong-il?
  7. Was Maria Theresa ever crowned as archduke of Austria?
  8. Birth control in 18th-century France
  9. Female monarchs in battle
  10. Linguistcs vs. the Bible

June 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 June 14

  1. Elf workshop in movie
  2. Bound Delegates
  3. What is the relationship between Requerimiento to book of Deuteronomy?
  4. "Windows service center" scam
  5. Art history & Francis Bacon
  6. Puzzling English inscription

June 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 June 15

  1. Thinking of a police incident
  2. Lost compositions by Michael Haydn
  3. Book translation
  4. The Body of the Conquistador, If You Eat Their Food. . . by Rebecca Earle
  5. Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
  6. Greeks in Turkey

June 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 June 16

  1. When were women allowed to handle their own bank account?

June 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 June 17

  1. Rules for Unclaimed Nobel Prizes
  2. Cottingham manor
  3. Reincarnation
  4. Pol Pot

June 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 June 18

  1. Alternative voting system
  2. Query on term for intentional celibacy philosophy adopted by scientists during The Enlightment/Scientific Revolution
  3. Native Hawaiian or Native American
  4. Why do names of fictional characters get censored in some fictional stories?
  5. Letters of Marque
  6. Carl Sagan and sekded-ef em khetkhet
  7. other olympic events
  8. J. Abrial

June 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 June 19

  1. Purpose of Purge of the Red Army in 1941?
  2. Is it true that France has less alcohol related problems than USA does?
  3. Italians
  4. reaction to new apple product
  5. English term for 'Cabinet question'
  6. 2012 "shackle" sneakers: what is the shackle for?
  7. illegal immigrants in the us

June 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 June 20

  1. Prostitution (or not) in Ilfracombe
  2. Henry Adams

June 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 June 21

  1. Why are the concepts of Elasticity Supply are so Important to Government ?
  2. Living conditions and number of cars in Iraq
  3. No 65-MPG Passat here? But why do the Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf slip through the cracks?
  4. Why are amendments to the US Constitution given so much importance?

June 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 June 22

  1. People of Loulan
  2. London, 1886?

June 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 June 23

  1. Platinum U.S. coins
  2. Where to find my Hardy.
  3. Lia Fáil
  4. word for this personality type

June 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 June 24

  1. Paris Syndrome
  2. WW1 Play about character with reduced mental capacity charged with desertion
  3. The legal act of acknowledging a "bastard"

June 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 June 25

  1. European reaction to end of Ming Dynasty
  2. Tobacco auctions
  3. Which European parties call for the (re)introduction of capital punishment?
  4. Sex Offender Laws
  5. Is it true lawyers can fish for defamation in the UK like ambulance-chasers in the US?
  6. Synopses of pre-20th century fiction

June 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 June 26

  1. Sculptor Bernard Spinetti and his vain Saint Brigita
  2. Odd-shaped bit of the English/Welsh border
  3. member of the Ford administration staff
  4. british politics

June 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 June 27

  1. Ehler, Iowa
  2. Bengali hindu surnames based on varna
  3. Chattra Union in Bangladesh

June 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 June 28

  1. Ernestine duchies
  2. NEWSPAPERS
  3. Introductory book on logic
  4. French cities with Dutch population

June 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 June 29

  1. Is there actually an unreleased movie called "45 Minutes from Denver"?
  2. French cuisine of France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Monaco
  3. chase vehicle
  4. Child sexual abuse

June 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 June 30

  1. universe
  2. UK's name in 1920?
  3. The semi-presidential system
  4. Family Grave Plot Stone Marker
  5. Petelo Vikena