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June 2

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1. Is there anybody in the world that has studied a very difficult language from a monolingual English speaker's perspective and attempted to raise a child in it as a non-native speaker?
2. Where can I find information about a certain writer

June 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 June 3

1. Import quotas vs Trump tariffs
2. Mainstream source for structure of the Bible?
3. Blue not a color to ancient peoples??

June 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 June 4

1. Arguments in favor of privatization of jails
2. A problematic Rembrandt image
3. Knesset transcripts

June 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 June 5

1. Perfect Agreement of Roman consular lists

June 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 June 6

1. Pew Research Center research and surveys
2. City boundary in the US

June 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 June 7

1. An archival misprint, what was in context meant?
2. Name of the anthem of the Communist Party of Germany?

June 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 June 8

1. "people in Maine, who wear sneakers"
2. Carl Icahn, draft
3. fist comment work
4. Galley slavery as a legal punishment in Ancient Rome: a modern invention?

June 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 June 9

1. Is the word "peace officer" a technical term for the word "police officer"?
2. Plutarch about Cato the Elder
3. WWII & Maritime boundaries

June 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 June 10

1. US Trade tariffs
2. Copyright Permission for Photograph (1932)
3. insularity index
4. Is there anywhere in the world that allows domestic partners to have as many partners as possible?

June 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 June 11

1. Peter Bessell - Lynwyd School?
2. map legend
3. What's the most negative interest rate debt ever? Has the price of debt ever been 1.01 per unit promised? (excluding repaying in different currency) 1.02? More?

June 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 June 12

1. Number of times England could have had a king named Arthur?
2. What happens when a diplomat's motorcade travels to a country that drives on the opposite side of the road?
3. Nazi symbolism

June 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 June 13

1. Labour force after massive development
2. Raiatea / Homeland of Maori people
3. Soviet treatment of ww2 prisoners

June 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 June 14

1. If rape was historically seen as a crime against the property of the man to whom the woman belonged, then what happened to the women without male guardians?
2. What did Roy Jenkins have against Lloyd George?
3. Railway projects in japan
4. List of countries by meat consumption per capita

June 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 June 15

1. Thermopylae
2. Synthesis in articles
3. Teaching history in young countries millenia from now
4. U.S. Regions - Is the U.S. Census Bureau's map definitive?

June 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 June 16

1. Muhammad

June 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 June 17

1. Odin
2. What type of picture is this?
3. I have a question about transgender people in Botswana

June 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 June 18

1. Audioguide
2. Banana label
3. How can one prove that one has consummated the marriage?
4. Birth date of Bud Grace

June 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 June 19

1. United Methodist Church precursor

June 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 June 20

1. Do media critics who use various theories of literary criticism in their review of a work generally judge the overall quality of the work based on its messages?
2. "CEO behind the product"
3. Poem about an old white horse, hussars, and the Sudan Campaign

June 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 June 21

1. People who had one child of one gender and then 5+ children of the other gender in a row
2. is the DR still in the IACHR?
3. Daily Star (United Kingdom)
4. Has Sweden or Oslo been completely landlocked by ice before?

June 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 June 22

1. Does sexual consent apply to prostitutes?

June 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 June 23

1. Why didn't the US invade the soviet union in 1946?
2. Nipple piercing in antiquity
3. US Supreme Court overturning its earlier decisions; effect on sales tax

June 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 June 24

1. Foreign relations of the Soviet Socialist Republics
2. conglomerates working together
3. Had my edit undone for no good reason
4. Main and Military Plazas, San Antonio, Texas

June 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 June 25

1. Wycliffe Bible transcription
2. Why do companies want to make profits?
3. Countries with former woman driving ban
4. U. S. Supreme Court cases: trends in number of cases decided over the years
5. World War 1
6. "German forces under direct order from Adolf Hitler set up six extermination camps"

June 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 June 26

1. Identifying an OLD work

June 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 June 27

1. Leon Degrelle
2. How is it that Trump v. Hawaii did not overturn Korematsu v. United States?
3. comparison between germanic and Roman deities
4. General Butcher

June 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 June 28

1. Supreme Court ideological composition
2. Can absent Senators vote?
3. Gaslighting

June 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 June 29

1. Princess’s request trope
2. Difference between real massage spa and brothel disguised as massage spa
3. Conscription in Sweden
4. Future US state population by race?

June 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 June 30

1. Population of convex cover of states relative to state
2. rephrasing my conglomerate question