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March 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 March 1

1. Audiobook production
2. Mayors in Mexico
3. Signatures?
4. Historical puns

March 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 March 2

1. What are all the steps to follow to shrink back the hippie counterculture?
2. Where do the driving schools in and near Manhattan train n00bs?
3. What era hairstyle does Disney's Sleeping Beauty have?
4. British legal texts with change of monarch

March 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 March 3

1. Did the Soviets have the strength to defeat Germany without the Western Front?
2. Resource for finding locations of paintings by artist?
3. Source of "irrationality" argument

March 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 March 4

1. Romanov
2. National minorities and citizenship
3. What was the 1st country to implement a system of proportional representation for their national parliament?
4. US general delivery postal addresses
5. Allegations of wiretapping

March 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 March 5

1. Canadian_Airlines
2. Articles of Confederation: did any State direct that elections were to be held for congressional delegates?
3. Trial by peers
4. With what was Lord de Clifford charged?
5. ṭawāf and chirality
6. question about the Constitution of Australia
7. What is "乾亨行"
8. Hanover Trust Company
9. Calling the LDS children's magazine 'The Friend' a _Christian (at the bottom of the page) magazine
10. Peculiar mix of political beliefs?

March 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 March 6

1. Travis Kalanick, Ayn Rand, Objectivism
2. Seniority in the United States Armed Forces in World War II
3. Captain Cook article
4. Ali Fahiye Gedi

March 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 March 7

1. Racism
2. Short story collections by Yukio Mishima
3. Fully elected House Of Lords
4. Research into a company
5. Earliest historic quotes expressing depression or despair from life
6. Scientific study of psychological effects of prostitution on john/punters

March 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 March 8

1. Impossibility defense
2. Counties requiring condoms in porn movies
3. When did the RMB devaluation end?
4. Queen Elizabeth II's longest-serving Prime Minister
5. 'Numbered' companies in Canada
6. British intelligence agency 'BTSS'
7. Value of work done by women
8. Assumption that humans should live "ethically"

March 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 March 9

1. Mariant Brothers and Father Data
2. Hawaiian Paniolo
3. Australian Capital Territory flags
4. Mystery initials to decipher: "IA ’43, MBA 2/’47, DCS ’58"
5. President declaring martial law

March 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 March 10

1. Anglo-Saxon male lines
2. The centenary of the Russian Revolution
3. Art
4. Spencer
5. Anaxagoras and the Earth/Sun model
6. Visas eligibility to USA

March 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 March 11

1. Reformation in Islam for women
2. 2017 Port Hills fires
3. Online Certificate to become an Ordained Minister Online
4. AUSTRIA/POLAND
5. Happiness in Religions

March 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 March 12

1. Multi-owner trademarks
2. European politician's quote on word for "child" across languages
3. Children's poetry
4. Can you successfully sue an insurance company for breach of contract if they sell you an insurance contract which is contrary to public policy and then refuse to pay up?
5. Books about the euro

March 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 March 13

1. A fruit as the main course
2. "The Helicopter Song" - banned?
3. Walking across Manhattan
4. "Senator for" vs. "Senator from"
5. Buddhism in China
6. What industry is Chicago
7. Flugtag airshow

March 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 March 14

1. National Literary Classics in (DVD) Miniseries Form
2. past GDP (PPP) per capita
3. Did Vin Diesel study at Stella Adler's acting school?
4. Health insurance
5. University of Cambridge
6. UK Nuclear Arsenal

March 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 March 15

1. Cook
2. Otaheite Dog and Wolf
3. Origins of the Grove Encyclopedia series
4. Living in a permanent residence
5. Miller's thumb

March 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 March 16

1. Why does RationalWiki continue to subscribe to the Christ myth theory despite academic consensus against said theory?
2. Readability studies
3. Hikikomori and the job market
4. Legal obligation to look after a sick child
5. Proportional representation how many votes to earn one seat
6. Looking for a particular book about 19th century crime in NYC
7. Pilot mortality rate, Second World War

March 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 March 17

1. Idle poor and vagrants
2. Weather Underground
3. Judaism and Zorastrianism

March 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 March 18

1. :Category:Criticism of monotheism
2. Northern and Southern Court
3. Karl von den Steinen
4. Book questions
5. Outcome of Canadian TB suit?
6. Why isn't there a widespread/popular movement for the abolition of the Electoral College?

March 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 March 19

1. Who gets the gas/oil in international waters?
2. Eastern Pacific lands: Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands

March 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 March 20

1. Scalping
2. Medical doctors as authors of pop science/health books
3. Why are caskets used to store dead human bodies?
4. Arab spring countries successful and unsuccessful polls and documentaries

March 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 March 21

1. Was there any contemporary European analysis done of the Ming-Qing transition?
2. Real first name?
3. Title in Beauty and the Beast
4. Muslim women calling for reforms for women in Islam
5. Similar to Francafrique
6. Philosophers similar to Ayn Rand

March 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 March 22

1. Roman Empire in German historiography
2. Waiving our basic rights
3. Info on a science fiction short story where child reporters discover truth about Santa Claus?

March 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 March 23

1. Origin of names: Khalid Masood

March 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 March 24

1. Captain Brinell
2. Evidence that Obama spied on Trump
3. A spike on the steering wheel
4. Do interest-only forever mortgages exist?
5. Electronic Frontier Alliance
6. Virtual filibuster
7. John D. Rockefeller's percentage ownership of Standard Oil

March 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 March 25

1. Tax breaks and the Equal Protection Clause?
2. Adversarial/collaborative sectors
3. German vs English
4. Seriousness of undesired touching
5. 1992–94 Crimean crisis
6. News in the United States

March 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 March 26

1. Great Depression/World War II differences
2. Usage of exonym Indian for Oceanian

March 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 March 27

1. U.S. Federal Law and State-level diplomatic immunity
2. You
3. Saint Peter & Co.
4. Hall Pass?
5. Large error in List of US Presidents page
6. Angata

March 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 March 28

1. Mana Expedition to Easter Island
2. Majority of professors being conservative
3. Why Lee Harvey Oswald's tax records are classified?
4. Laws for police powers in the US
5. What is this place
6. Assessing damages in defamation case - pre-lawsuit situation? Or post-lawsuit?
7. French presidential election 2017 quebec and francafrique
8. Effectiveness of suicide prevention hotlines
9. How to determine a death is actually a suicide?

March 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 March 29

1. Is TV and film depiction of racial gangs in prison accurate?
2. Brexit and the Irish border
3. Job Titles
4. Stories vs Reality

March 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 March 30

1. Great Clearances
2. Unwanted/unintended/unplanned pregnancies
3. Totalitarianism and communism
4. Creation science outside of the United States
5. How Many
6. "China Affair" 1927?

March 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 March 31

1. Did the Catholic church ever say that Catholics cannot eat meat on Fridays and may eat fish as a substitute for meat?
2. Private hearings
3. Request for a placeholder text with specific characteristics
4. Given that the 1999 Russian apartment bombings were obviously carried out by the Russian state, why wasn't there international uproar?
5. Bancorp
6. Aminu Ahmad Kazaure
7. Why do humans complain about life being short when it takes them 15 years just to reach sexual maturity?