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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?