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July 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 1

1. Minimum cigarette prices
2. Original research should be accepted
3. 1987 aircraft incident - did it happen?

July 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 2

1. What's the highest ranked team this World Cup that was "seeded to lose"?
2. Possible scam email
3. Racially mixed couples / female partner preferences
4. Absolute timing?
5. Citing a book without page numbers

July 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 3

1. Questions about closed primary elections in the US
2. Date of birth for Howard Austen
3. I'd like to roll to Rio some day before I'm old!

July 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 4

1. Was Fyodor Rostopchin a general?
2. Help with name of book.

July 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 5

1. Congressional sessions in the 19th century
2. Us tribal reservation law enforcement

July 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 6

1. French painter
2. Would it be better if all legislators will be required to obtain a law degree before entering into politics?
3. What was in the original Japanese text?
4. Why did the russian stop kissing each other after communism

July 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 7

1. Did Jesus get married?
2. A movie about a child murderess
3. Successful lawsuits against the Wikimedia Foundation
4. Ira B. Dutton
5. Why does an Englishman say "dollars" in The Hound of the Baskervilles?
6. jesus and messianic prophecy
7. Citing a web page
8. (How to ask for) references on pedophilia

July 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 8

1. Need help identifying a portrait from a movie
2. Origin of Kings
3. Second most powerful office in America
4. University of Wales, Islamic Theology

July 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 9

1. Nazi food and oil pre-Barbarossa
2. Lord of the Manor titles
3. Neolithic Revolution: "Sedentary" farming??
4. Hedge Funds
5. Coat of arms of the Bagrationi dynasty

July 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 10

1. Self-made child porn
2. Job Application Query
3. Environment, health, and economy
4. Books About the Role of Children in Gang Warfare
5. Canadian Armed Forces insignia

July 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 11

1. Bill Ragsdale
2. 19th century travel accounts
3. unfair workplace practices
4. Conversion narratives about people who convert from a nonreligious, non-theistic background to a traditional Christian background?
5. In what ways is the Baha'i religion similar to Unitarian Universalism and different from Christianity?
6. Sanguine personality - a good thing? When?

July 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 12

1. Most prolific convicted murderer
2. Charles N. Arnold
3. Political position of Richard Nixon

July 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 13

1. Herod the Great in Art
2. Are there Christian sects that have become an ethnoreligious group?
3. (Western) Samoa-American Samoa relationship
4. Maine and Massachusetts
5. The prophecy of the Three Witches in Macbeth

July 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 14

1. How do Western parents give blessings to their sons-in-law prior to marriage?

July 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 15

1. Louis II and the Jagiellons
2. George F. Wright
3. Langton, near Warlington, England
4. Tolkien question

July 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 16

1. What's the procedure for a province to break away from a turmoiled country and declare independence?
2. George R. Carter
3. Temporal solaces
4. Influence of EU membership on English law
5. Where is this?
6. Bicorn tapestry?
7. How did the American concept of evangelicalism change from Lutheranism to conservative Protestant Christianity?
8. How common are Christian-to-Buddhist family conversions in the world?

July 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 17

1. Historical names for the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, etc
2. Where did the "coffee" in the Coffee Club come from?
3. Historical person obsessed with clocks
4. Malaysian airline crash in Ukraine
5. Are these notable in England

July 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 18

1. What was Rhode Island's status before it ratified the Constitution?
2. jurisdiction & admissibility
3. Low population density of central inner Spain
4. Taking pets to war

July 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 19

1. Coin Act 1696
2. Passports during aircraft accidents
3. List of current constituent African monarchs
4. Sodanomics

July 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 20

1. James Harden-Hickey
2. First World War medical report
3. Which authors used the most adjectives and which ones used the least
4. 'Lives of the saints'
5. How are former French, Spanish, Portuguese and English colonies performing economically?

July 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 21

1. $23.6 billion jury award in tobacco lawsuit
2. American civil war ten years before
3. Outback Steakhouse
4. ISIS Fines for Christianity
5. pig's skin which covers a Muslim, avoids arriving to heaven?

July 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 22

1. Family businesses
2. Everyone loves Lepidus
3. American Curl meme
4. Is the concept of race really a social construct?

July 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 23

1. Is there a philosophical notion for the inability of a corpse to have faith?
2. architecture
3. Why do Russians love to name their children "Alexei" and related names?
4. Royal Philatelic Collection
5. Walter L. Shaw

July 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 24

1. Washington Street, Boston
2. A contemporary Russian author?
3. Eleventh Annual Report of the Hawaiian Mission Children's Society

July 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 25

1. Anime and manga with pregnancy as a major theme?
2. Did/does this type of language exist?
3. How are Jewish and Christian values different from each other?

July 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 26

1. American white supremacist
2. 22nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
3. November 18, 1862 letter at Fort Tillinghast
4. 2K14
5. Iambic trimeter

July 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 27

1. Christian denominations which do not receive the Eucharist
2. Mormon Church at Kealia, Hawaii
3. Piéton a tributary of the Sambre

July 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 28

1. Why do every piece of land have to be owned by a country?
2. Joining two political parties in the US
3. Why is Australia part of the "West"?

July 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 29

1. Median earnings and wealth
2. Hail, hail Fredonia, land of the brave and free
3. Roman ball game (Follis)
4. "A Study of the Geography of 1 Enoch 17-19"
5. Joseph Lane's personal slave
6. Where is J. Howard Marshall's money?
7. Have relevant newspaper clippings but incomplete citation data
8. British Daughters of the American Revolution

July 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 30

1. Cargo ship

July 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 31

1. Why can't Argentina pay bondholders of its restructured debt outside of the US banking system?
2. When and how did HP Lovecraft become popular?
3. Restoration of Charles II
4. Famous leaders who practiced nonviolence