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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 1
- Gambier Islands
- Kings of Easter Island
- "People are much less accurate at throwing darts at pictures of JFK than at pictures of Hitler"
- Flags of Trans-Mississippi
- Online photography contest
- Why isn't Kosovo a UN member/observer?
- Taian teahouse page help
- St. Vincent de Paul Church in Davenport California
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- Exact date of death for writer Doris Gates?
- Have any countries succeeded at reducing censoring of media?
- Is it possible for an author to hide his writer's voice?
- Why didn't Richard Kuklinski get the death penalty?
- Los Angeles of Toronto
- Sega and Toronto Blur Jays font
- Somoans/Pacific Islanders
- humanities academic journal search online
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- Why did the United States purchase so much territory compared to other countries?
- Garouch and Bad Pakh in Afghanistan
- Wikimania
- Jurisprudence, Barrister, Magistrate
- Abrahamic religions and religious tolerance
- Is there a relationship between lesbianism and 'uppity women'?
- In short, what caused Greece to be in the bad shape that it's in?
- Ancient history
- Looking for a sci-fi story
- Historians favor U.S. Presidents who owned slaves
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 6
- Historians
- Pillars of Society
- Abe Lincoln vs. The Native Americans
- CBS ABC FOX CNN
- Free bus passes in England
- Life imprisonment in England and Wales
- about islam
- Handbury question
- Viewership vs advertising
- "bread" as a slang word
- Business Magazine question
- Robot education in science fiction
- elections in the uk
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- Why has the Battle of Moscow recently taken the spotlight as the turning point of WWII's Eastern front when Battle of Stalingrad has enjoyed that title for years? What changed?
- Medical education in Russia
- Prince Henry?
- Hanukkah
- Lotus Blossom Babies?
- What is an MRS degree?
- Racism laws in South Africa
- Decapitate
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 9
- Soviet invasion of Xinjiang
- Most beautiful women
- Early numbers of cars
- Abu Qatada Gap
- Trooping the Colour Music
- Puerto Rican statehood vote 2012
- unemployment benefits (USA)
- Are images on Wikipedia part of the public domain?
- foreign students
- French for black male servants to French women during colonial times
- First Christian Nation and/or First Nation Claiming to be "Christian"
- What is the best life strategy? a - expect the best or b - expect the worst
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 13
- Mutopia project music licencing
- La frégate L'Artémise entrant à Tanoa, après son échouage
- Historical popular culture "meems"
- Marriage
- Relationship of Cole's `The voyage of Life' and Rachmaninoff's `Symphonic Dances'
- Identification of a Native American
- War until one side has 0 men left?
- English Civil War, international reaction
- Pierre De Fermat 2
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 14
- Washington, DC's street grid
- Secular scholarly studies on Christianity and the Bible
- Phantom Zone
- The Specifically British Title "Professor"
- Are gamekeepers kind of underdogs in England?
- John Slidell
- Pronunciation of Albanian names ending in -aj
- Dual doctorates
- The stadium of other lives
- Jigsaw puzzles in literature
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 29
- Four temperaments
- People who have "recanted" after coming out
- Theoretically, will piracy be eliminated or lessened if...
- Oldest historical event
- Picture interpretation
- Judged for two things simultaneously ...
- Impersonating a priest
- USS Peacock
- Why do fossils?
- Is 'Death cross' some kind of commonplace jargon in finance/investing?
- Foreign countries that advocate for change in the United States