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May 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 1

1. Statues on interior columns of Berlin's Marienkirche
2. Kim Jong-nam's body
3. Legitimate vs illegitimate children
4. Profit flows between countries
5. Czechs learning Slovak, or vice versa

May 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 3

1. reconstruction plan after the civil war
2. Union label
3. Wikipedia's use of the Gregorian calendar in biographies.

May 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 4

1. Suicides among writers
2. Coffee shop inside reading places
3. Why did Prussia adopt the Gregorian calendar so early and so much ahead of all the other Protestant states?
4. Is this a Kepler quote?
5. Marriage of a divorced Roman Catholic
6. Malcolm Thomson, biographer of Lloyd George and of Churchill
7. What's the "Weixi era"?

May 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 5

1. Flag identification

May 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 6

1. Why do Christians like Nietzsche?
2. The Big Short (film)

May 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 7

1. Children born in the White House
2. Alphabet soup
3. What are the options for low-income, single people who are old enough to retire out of the workforce and really can't work anymore?
4. Weddings of the century

May 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 8

1. Weddings of the century
2. What was the official currency of Nazi Germany backed by?
3. Canada East
4. Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action snapback of UN sanctions
5. How do runaway children find work nowadays? Who will hire them?
6. What happened to the Judge in the Llanfrothen Burial Case?

May 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 9

1. Repealing a repeal
2. Quantum Mechanics for Beginners
3. Karl Popper and Evolution
4. Ancient sex guides other than the Kama Sutra
5. what can I do to find out their birthdate?

May 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 10

1. What's the approximate scale of the largest barter agreement after 1950?
2. Father not paying child allowance (UK)

May 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 12

1. Historical Jesus grab bag
2. Why don't hospitals check the patient's insurance company to see whether the insurer is in-network or out-of-network?
3. photo colorization
4. Polar bears
5. “Rags to riches” stories other than those written by Horatio Alger

May 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 13

1. In the US, what law stipulates 'in dubio pro reo'?

May 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 14

1. Cheapest way to rest in peace
2. John R. Bolton
3. Arms of Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, and arms of Viscount Tenby

May 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 15

1. What was name of novel about an Army computer programmer whose program has an error?
2. Avesta Harun
3. Teo Savory
4. Kensington Palace
5. Novels about celibate men
6. Confusion about Robert the Bruce (Robert de Brus) ancestor

May 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 17

1. Nettle liquid manure
2. 1983~1990 Palau National Geographic article question
3. Indian police shields

May 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 18

1. Lloyd George in Brighton

May 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 19

1. Who was the Page to whom John Morley spoke of Woodrow Wilson?
2. Harry's wedding giggles
3. Vomiting in antiquity
4. Hippocrates' Aphorisms
5. Giovanni Antonio Facchinetti de Nuce birthplace
6. Why is Duke so prominent in the titles of most British Princes?

May 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 20

1. Name of 1624 papal bull?
2. Aslan Verlag
3. Why was the Grand Duchy of Lithuania so preposterously underpopulated?

May 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 21

1. How do illegal immigrants prove that a child is born in the US?
2. Need someone who REALLY knows how British royal titles work.
3. Notability
4. Refugees

May 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 22

1. Who is with Lloyd George
2. Does the Greek sea god Triton have a counterpart in Roman mythology?
3. What does this sign mean?
4. Schengen Area
5. Christianity
6. Quote origin

May 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 23

1. Is this bitcoin mining company using at least 1% of the electricity generated in China?
2. Maternity leaves
3. Sting credit card numbers - have they ever been tried?

May 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 24

1. Anti-fraud laws and magic
2. Anglicizing New Testament names
3. To what extent is marriage a public commitment?

May 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 25

1. Colin Wilson's Spiderworld
2. a Courts and Repingtons - Wiltshire MPs and soldiers
3. Last Judgment

May 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 26

1. Single/double consonants in English
2. Blakiston Rectory haunting

May 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 27

1. two charities working together

May 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 28

1. Human Arm-Bones as Measuring Sticks
2. Usage of time zone in French Canada
3. Deaths in war
4. Nathaniel Bright Emerson

May 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 29

1. (British) Royal Patronage in the Republic of Ireland
2. Who lends money to private equity firms' subsidiaries?
3. Universities in Middle East offering History program
4. Supreme Court vote
5. Hegesias of Cyrene
6. Ancient Germanic Clothing and Fashion

May 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 30

1. Muslim Scholar from the Medieval period
2. Catalog of lost books
3. Number of audio CD titles in print
4. Slave prostitution in pre-Civil-War America?

May 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 31

1. Abkhazia–Nauru relations
2. Assaulting a police officer in the US
3. Law report catchwords
4. No-original-parts paradox
5. Tom Neil chronology
6. Was it ever possible to catch the Blue Riband ship without flying? (if it wasn't late and your connection wasn't early)