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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?