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May 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 1

1. Free markets and single-party rule
2. Deaths from 2015–2016 Zika virus epidemic
3. What are the cultural differences between Alabama and Mississippi?
4. Basil Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 4th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
5. Cruikshank of the News Chronicle

May 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 2

1. WWII German War Decorations
2. Black supporters of segregation
3. Der Veker 1920-1921?
4. Finger pointing in martial art films
5. Abū Jaʿfar al-Ghāfiqī and Muhammad ibn Aslam Al-Ghafiqi

May 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 3

1. Question regarding D. H. Lawrence's Apocalypse
2. Sieges ended by climbing a garderobe
3. Baku coordinates

May 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 4

1. Kantian ethics

May 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 5

1. May the fourth be with you
2. conspiracy theories

May 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 6

1. FDR's speech
2. Ulysses and Bobrikov
3. 20th century
4. Jacky Gordon and her brother

May 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 7

1. Soviet fuel tank
2. Crimes / sexual assaults on college campuses
3. Combining the chancellery and the presidency?
4. Covid-19 reporting basis: deaths per million

May 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 8

1. People in Jesus' time
2. Mary, Mary, quite contrary
3. History of 20th century

May 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 9

1. Siege of Paris painting
2. The residents of Sodom, Shetland--are they called Sodomites?
3. Kalakaua coronation fashion
4. Is there any country today without monetary inflation?

May 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 10

1. Burgh Boundaries in Scotland

May 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 11

1. Moving troops

May 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 12

1. What did G. M. Young write that upset Churchill and Beaverbrook?
2. US federal court rulings
3. Kashmir–USSR border

May 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 13

1. Shortest time in which a novel is set
2. Distance from Iceland to Rockall

May 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 14

1. Writ of mandamus to prosecute somebody
2. Date where Longwood Gardens started charging admission?
3. Strange ritual which involves (allegedly) ghosts and meditation
4. Does lucid dreaming have negative effects?

May 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 15

1. What is the "Baron de Coubertin"?

May 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 16

1. maids of honor
2. History, medieval, shields, concave vs convex.
3. The Iraqi Constitution and the selection of Iraq's Prime Minister

May 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 17

1. Adam, Eve and Incest
2. Afford Insurance

May 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 18

1. Woodrow Wilson, national self-determination, and the Mexican-American War
2. Gerald Ford stair incident
3. Bartkus v. Illinois, 359 U.S. 121 (1959)

May 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 19

1. Sea level
2. Anti-aircraft machine guns on tanks
3. Hot pursuit across US state borders
4. Sea Level II
5. "Harvard outline" format
6. English-speaking Hitler
7. literary device
8. Famous 1800s London person?
9. Riot grrrl and men

May 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 20

1. National Education Union - 19th century Anglican organisation
2. Moral relativism in Asian cultures
3. Sussex - "an old smithy that cried out aloud how it had once been a hall of the Knights of the Temple"

May 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 21

1. Photo info
2. "He was the future once"
3. Fabian Ware img
4. Late ancient Pagan/Hellenistic writer (poet) in, I think, Alexandra?
5. What was the population, area and GDP of the European Communities in 1986, with exception to Spain and Portugal?

May 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 22

1. Dardanelles during Byzantine Empire
2. Margaret Mead “earliest sign of civilization” anecdote?
3. Felony murder charge after someone intentionally kills themselves?

May 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 23

1. "... Forever hold your peace"?
2. Gender-specific names
3. POTUS as federal employee

May 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 24

1. Invasion of Spain during Spanish-American War
2. Idiomatic translation
3. Southern Europeans generally more financially well off than Northern Europeans?

May 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 25

1. Te Rata Mahuta
2. Flynn again

May 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 26

1. Lion's Tail

May 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 27

1. African demographics

May 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 28

1. "Heil Hitler" to Hitler himself
2. Translation of German word
3. How Does Wikipedia Determine which States are Countries?

May 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 29

1. Founding of Papeete
2. appealing automatically places court order on hold?
3. Is it an ad hominem to say that a source is unreliable?
4. "Never again"
5. Family tree

May 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 30

1. Coming it
2. Out-of-state MN rioters
3. Prevagen

May 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 31

1. UK cheques
2. He who votes black is an enemy of our people
3. United Airlines museum