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August 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 1

1. Artist behind these works

August 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 2

1. Latin name of Strathclyde
2. Borders of the Republic of Texas

August 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 3

1. David Hogg article fact check (age)
2. Royal Order 1887
3. T. Fujita and N. Nakayama

August 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 4

1. On smiling in antiquity
2. On the second temple
3. On difficile lectu
4. On Mozart's BFF Voltaire
5. A simple question about Christmas

August 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 5

1. Institutions working together

August 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 6

1. "We have to tell the police"
2. American Revolution historiography

August 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 7

1. What rhyme is this?

August 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 8

1. Tadashi Yasuda
2. Light-field camera
3. Employment contract buyouts in Spain
4. Modern name of "Abuscheher"
5. Civilian inventions in the military
6. References for the Society for Social Studies of Science

August 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 9

1. Pipe smoking ... a candle?
2. Historical person with name in mixed alphabets

August 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 10

1. Does GDPR affect US companies that happen to have EU customers or even just visitors to their website?
2. Identity of photographer
3. "High King of Scotland"
4. rephrasing my institution question

August 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 11

1. On incest and the gentry
2. Nelly Sbton or Nelly Sebton
3. Dance name

August 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 12

1. Ur-Horatio Hornblower
2. Yongli Emperor and Christianity
3. Hodey-ho di-ho di-ho
4. Collective term for continent, country, state, city, etc.
5. Siblings

August 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 13

1. Anglican Church and Sola Fide

August 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 14

1. Clan Swinton
2. Was this historically accurate?
3. Faded writing at the top of St. Peter's Square Obelisk (Vatican City)?

August 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 15

1. Jika-tabi

August 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 16

1. On Nero's last phrases
2. Weddings with bride asked first

August 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 17

1. Military history
2. Vasily II of Moscow and the Byzantines
3. what exactly constitutes a breach of academic integrity?

August 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 19

1. looking for a young adult novel/tv serial
2. Slaves in Mesoamerica

August 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 20

1. US Presidents and Royal Caricature
2. Notability?
3. Medieval year-ends
4. Identifying corruption in tendering process
5. Are there any states that extend the felony voting rule a little into the past?
6. Eleonor Ann Ram, later Mrs Archibald Campbell

August 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 21

1. Constitutions that prohibit life imprisonment
2. Hanna Akiva
3. Repentant criminals

August 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 22

1. are educational institutions required to file suspicious activity reports under the Bank Secrecy Act?
2. the diver who died in the thai cave rescue
3. Sovereign bolivar
4. Descriptor?

August 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 23

1. Hitler 's abilities as a strategic military commander
2. What if Turnbull refused to hold a spill?
3. For-profit hospitals and abortion: Are the big hospital companies abortion providers?

August 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 24

1. Pre-decimal British currency denominations abbrev.
2. Manafort pardon
3. Rejecting an ambassador
4. Statistics on European immigration to Algeria
5. Pictish king

August 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 25

1. Orders from the CofE on the subject of poor M

August 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 26

1. Publication date of An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth
2. Eleve Consul

August 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 27

1. Weimar republic post-inflationary wages, in currency
2. young aristocrat carrying a cane?

August 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 28

1. An unidentifiable place described as Lensham

August 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 29

1. Looking for any info on Asian coin found in Queensland, Australia.
2. Did any Cuban rebels in the 1890s want Cuba to be annexed by the U.S.?
3. History: early civilizations and polytheism.

August 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 30

1. Jeremiah Evarts Chamberlain
2. Kitchener's three salaries
3. Prayer as Cultural universal?

August 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 31

1. Kitchener - "he is not a great man, he is a great poster"
2. Publicly announcing deaths several days after the death occurs in East Asia
3. Is this valid method of procurement in any government agency in utility sector
4. Pisan title to Sardinia
5. Greek Orthodoxy on Sardinia
6. Mark Levin and Alex Jones