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September 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 September 1

1. Insanity defense
2. Price of sarcophagus setup like Tutankhamun's.
3. Music

September 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 September 2

1. Grave candle or lanterns
2. Third-party interference in diplomatic immunity
3. Nothing known about the man who ended WWII?
4. Early child welfare charitable institutions
5. The importance of environmental conservation and animal rights in non-White cultures
6. Organized crime
7. Emma or Ælfgifu
8. Another diplomacy question

September 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 September 3

1. Earliest British queen consort to have worn a crown
2. Can plastic surgery substantially alter someone's appearance?
3. Greetings
4. Do Spartacus (TV series) represents the reality?
5. Do schoolchildren in the developed world, 21st century, learn how to write letters or send e-mail or both?
6. Viking boat launching
7. Viking ship gargoyle

September 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 September 4

1. home prices in the us
2. Lietchenstein
3. Discrimination against people on the basis of how they smell
4. financial projections
5. French revolution death
6. red baiting/lavender baiting
7. German or American insignia
8. Are Catholic priests allowed to consume delicacies, sweets, and spicy foods?
9. Charles II of Navarre
10. Cutting in movies and literature
11. Where do Catholic priests live?
12. I forgot the name, help me please

September 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 September 5

1. "Collectivism"
2. Comparison of loyalism and republicanism in British Isles & North America
3. Society Islands
4. Biography of Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Bin Saud
5. Most powerful governor in the U.S.
6. Le Figaro
7. Question about Mr. Ernest E. Evans
8. Can a legal system be so perfect that you never ever convict an innocent guy?
9. Mysterious symbol on bottle top

September 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 September 6

1. John Maynard Keynes
2. national guidlines
3. Country with most sports events won at the World Championship level

September 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 September 7

1. Help me
2. Name that book
3. What type of fallacy is this?

September 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 September 8

1. Poetical testament
2. Causing death maliciously and legally?
3. If evolution doesn't exist ...
4. Is North Korea so poor and under-developed because of communism?

September 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 September 9

1. Question regarding the Tower of Babel myth
2. Crashed airliner - airline name and logo painted out
3. Tolkien and poverty
4. 18thC Head dress
5. Did Hitler offer to deport all the Jews in Occupied Europe to the Soviet Union?

September 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 September 10

1. Does anyone here have a subscription to Time Magazine?
2. If Jesus died for our sins...
3. Private schools vs. public schools
4. Songwriters whose work is in the public domain (UK)
5. German Togoland
6. Deer in Wales
7. The Copeland Gang

September 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 September 11

1. Defense against rape accusations in India
2. What sentence could William Ruto face?
3. Imperial Roman Army Picture Error
4. What now for Thompson and De Blasio campaigning?
5. human guinea pigs
6. Hindi literature
7. How much money goes into the Roman Catholic Church every year?
8. Grandchildren of Henry VIII - supposed daughters of his son Henry FitzRoy
9. Russian Beauharnais
10. Who saw Christian art?

September 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 September 12

1. National Flower of Germany?
2. Names that used to be considered stereotypical for black Americans
3. Evangelical School of Smyrna

September 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 September 13

1. Slander
2. Oldest spitfire pilot and 'still living'
3. A church that doesn't preach the gospel?

September 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 September 14

1. Search NYTimes Best seller list by author or title
2. Counties in Australia

September 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 September 15

1. Plank length
2. Good parenting?
3. child abuse videos
4. A textbook of Jewish rhetorics?
5. Scotland post Independence Referendum 2014
6. Buying a barrel of oil
7. Muslims and Arabs' Hatred of Jews

September 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 September 16

1. How can I work property rights for something ?
2. Pads
3. Mass executions of the poor
4. Did Hitler have any retirement plans?

September 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 September 17

1. Did the Germans fight back at Dresden?
2. Transsexuality: do psychoanalysts get referral bonuses?
3. Do Indians love or hate the Gandhis (Indira and Rajiv)
4. Racism among Europeans?
5. Trip to New World

September 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 September 18

1. 13, Duncan Street, Houndsditch
2. How predictable are divorces?
3. Oldest residential building?
4. Talmud Schottenstein Ed. Text in all upper case type
5. Sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly
6. List of territorial disputes
7. Quebec history

September 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 September 19

1. Buying stock in unemployment?
2. Borders in Oceania
3. How is pastoral care different from helping people with emotional-spiritual concerns?

September 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 September 20

1. Translation
2. Spartans Helots
3. 'Role reversal' in political thought?
4. Legal question: Would Charlie Harper's daughter have a claim to his estate?
5. Misogyny article - section on Judaism
6. Karen Carpenter's Voice
7. Pre-modern poetry containing time travel or other worldy beings...

September 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 September 21

1. White poverty in America
2. Population Gap
3. How many (notable) Roman Catholics and ex-Roman Catholics are also researchers/scientists using embryonic stem cell research?

September 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 September 22

1. Psychology, religion, political views, and occupation
2. When could the default on the US debt limit take place?

September 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 September 23

1. Languages
2. Individual prior to society and vice versa
3. Ukraine and Belorussia at the UN
4. Justice delayed is justice denied
5. Literary influence over French Revolution.
6. Spiritual vs. __________
7. Some statistical / financial questions

September 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 September 24

1. When did British monarchs stop authoring the speech from the throne?

September 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 September 25

1. Positions of the worlds religions regarding the morality of bringing the dead back to life.
2. Does anybody know what was the fate of this boy?
3. The Sanhedrin
4. William Calley, My Lai Massacre
5. What proportion of the time do Christians, on average, devote to God, Mary, or the saints?
6. Constructive vote of no confidence
7. Lyndon Johnson's inaugural parade
8. The Medicis breaking Machiavelli's arms
9. Why do people vote?

September 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 September 26

1. Georges Darboy
2. Bullying in schools
3. Any well-constructed studies on premium costs under the Affordable Care Act?
4. How do you <something> two contradictions?
5. Map about ages of consent in the world: Peru and Spain correct?
6. how can guys see toilet seats?

September 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 September 27

1. how are short positions closed when markets jump on open?
2. High risk group
3. The Young Turks - An offensive name?
4. Squat toilet demonstration
5. Give me examples of the Five Points of Calvinism or TULIP
6. William-Adolphe Bouguereau - Work Interrupted

September 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 September 28

1. Totalitarian ideologies
2. Story about Enyclopedists who devise a fictional island that becomes real
3. Please identify this French classical musique
4. In subject "Greeks"
5. What gives value to non-dividend paying stock?
6. Police State
7. What are the real chances for change in gay rights in Iran with President Hassan Rouhani?
8. What was the first U.S. health insurance plan to exclude coverage for autism and why did they do it?
9. Nirvana and the end of the world

September 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 September 29

1. exact moment for pictorial meme
2. Age of High School graduation in Colombia
3. technical question on microeconomics: why don't more people use personal buyers (micro economics question)
4. Bari and Rossano
5. French books for beginners
6. A rug "made by Alecto" . Alecto ? ...
7. Corporal punishment in schools
8. Is BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit District) considered to be a government agency?
9. Identification of a manuscript

September 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 September 30

1. Identify this British WWI Quote
2. Russian War on Chechnya
3. Why do people think that death is bad?
4. New York county judges
5. Very Early Chinese Capitalism
6. "80% of religious persecution"
7. Government shutdown - Explain it to me like I'm 5..
8. I Need Help Finding Whole Deutsche Bank Report for its Population Projections