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January 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 January 1

1. Truth Social
2. Muted street interviews in London New Year Parade street interviews

January 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 January 2

1. Renaming of La Fortuna
2. Ukrainians in the Polish army in the battle Battle of Vienna, 1683
3. Balzac on his deathbed

January 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 January 3

1. Number of Roman Catholic titular sees

January 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 January 4

1. On a Dark Night, also called The Vintage, by Anthony West
2. International Criminal Court detention centre
3. Is bureaucracy another term for deep state?

January 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 January 5

1. 2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election
2. Convention for text rotated vertically
3. Location of the British Embassy in Paris in 1783

January 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 January 6

1. Comparison of The Art of War translations?
2. "Prince Fahad of Saudi Arabia"
3. Which country is larger; China or the United States??
4. Operation Valkyrie (2008)
5. Marketing: what do you call this kind of situation.
6. What's the most number of revotes for the most powerful US Senate position?
7. Saturday club
8. Indigenous vote in 2022 Chilean Constitutional Plebiscite

January 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 January 7

1. Geography
2. Eastern Catholic view of Mary and Joseph's marriage

January 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 January 8

1. The Hunt for Red October

January 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 January 9

1. is this image of the Coat of Arms of Occitania right?
2. is a cross cléché(e) in heraldry defined by flaring shape, or by being voided?

January 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 January 10

1. Latin translation
2. No Vice President
3. Earliest photographs with precisely-known date
4. Whose logo?
5. Computers

January 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 January 11

1. Haiti
2. Second Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan
3. The writings of Maximillian Kolbe against the Polish National Catholic Church

January 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 January 12

1. Fort Benton, Montana

January 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 January 13

1. What happens if a military dependent is charged in civilian court off-base?
2. Defector

January 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 January 14

1. 9/11 what-if: Could the air defense have saved the South Tower?
2. Is Masih Alinejad a Muslim?
3. 20 July plot
4. Zorro (TV series 1957)
5. The only person in history who was free from all human weakness
6. Waldo
7. Women as drag queens
8. Israeli occupation of the West Bank and International Laws

January 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 January 15

1. First glass-covered building
2. Version of Giselle performed in London in 1952
3. Name for a period when writing is lost? (vs Prehistory/History)

January 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 January 17

1. Case Closed: The Time-Bombed Skyscraper
2. Euphemism in Gaudy Night
3. the ultimate value of a ranch
4. Georg Elser

January 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 January 18

1. Australian article about democracy w/r/t death penalty
2. Rommel
3. Size of True Spain
4. Material assets

January 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 January 19

1. Goethe poem
2. story of American States

January 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 January 20

1. Where can I find US presidential appointments?
2. Attributed, possibly/probably apocryphal
3. 20 July plot
4. Who was Campbell-Gray

January 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 January 21

1. "Cold water flat"
2. 1942 or 1945
3. Players Ball

January 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 January 22

1. Lame duck length

January 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 January 23

1. Kutlehar State
2. A Taoist quote source

January 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 January 24

1. An "economist"?
2. US casualties in the Pacific War
3. British losses in World War II
4. Original volumes collated in "The English Reports"

January 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 January 25

1. Trillion dollar coin
2. Code word for the letter I

January 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 January 26

1. Limited-use currency
2. Scrap iron call
3. Country abbreviations used as unofficial, but usual country codes
4. And again about the losses in the Pacific War

January 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 January 27

1. Diameter of the circumscribed circle of a Canadian Loonie
2. Book I can't remember the name of
3. African American names ending with -us
4. Women working at lunch counters

January 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 January 28

1. hedge funds and/or investment banks

January 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 January 29

1. Case Closed
2. Information Hazard from a Legal Perspective
3. Papal regnal numbers

January 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 January 30

1. USA: Are banks with low interests in savings/CDs making a lot of money now?
2. Japan casualties in war against USA

January 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 January 31

1. Difficult advanced English
2. The Brides of Enderby