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July 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 1

1. Les Chants de Maldoror public domain English translation
2. Showing skin

July 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 2

1. Ptolemaic numbers
2. Terminations and buy-back
3. India-Bangladesh border deal

July 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 3

1. Joseph Lane
2. Baikonur, Kazakhstan - status
3. Whiskey barrels on the American frontier
4. What are the reasons for the placement and position of the numbers on the face of a clock?

July 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 4

1. Approximate number of STANAG magazines manufactured annually in the US
2. Crossing the floor
3. What is the correct term for this relationship?
4. How do I find the SET-plan budget
5. Naming of 61 Communards shipyard in Odessa
6. Do illegal migrants have good reason to head for the UK, as opposed to other stable countries?

July 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 5

1. When was Vostok Island claimed by the UK?
2. Order of competing claims
3. Raymond Lubitz
4. Pansexuality and Cochin
5. Maiden names as middle names
6. Has a confederation of nations ever been stable when it has central law/monetary policy but not redistribution of resources?

July 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 6

1. Jules Dumont d'Urville in Manga Reva
2. Is it known yet what will be the last state to perform its first same sex marriage?
3. shortsightedness
4. History of the Queen Victoria Monument
5. Real person - Paul Berowne
6. Negotiating with Apocalyptic lunatics
7. Online sales
8. Project vs general management
9. To hold palms up or not?
10. Does Greece have a backup plan?
11. Why don't Roman Catholic Masses ever finish the hymn?

July 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 7

1. Did Bouguereau have English ancestry?
2. "A Balagvatan"
3. What ethnic group is the name "Ali Ag Wadossene" from?
4. Store within a store
5. Did Velázquez change his surname?

July 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 8

1. A question regarding recent work by David C. Mitchell on the Psalms
2. Origin of the name Monthermer
3. Canada / Australia confusion

July 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 9

1. First Daguerreotype of Non-White
2. Architectural style of the former building of the Royal College of Organists.
3. Successful pre-Kindle self-published authors
4. Sequence of ancient Armenian kings

July 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 10

1. Help identifying Novel

July 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 11

1. The witch drowning test: True or myth?
2. Listing of relatives in an obituary: how can an individual have two mothers-in-law?
3. Stations of the cross
4. In Catholicism, is eating the Body of Christ better than discarding it?
5. When did the Middle Ages end according to the first people to use the idea?

July 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 12

1. Which one is the most useful housing affordability indicator? Listing price, sale price, or valuation?
2. Pandectae in Novum Ordinem
3. Teaching the Catechism in the Roman Catholic Church

July 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 13

1. Transition from "Early" to "High" Middle Ages
2. movie about the Arab Israeli conflict
3. Holy water and dilution
4. Calamity Jane's cap
5. European Union Referendum Bill
6. Wake Island claimed by Marshall Islands?
7. Circumventing ATM problem in Greece

July 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 14

1. What is going on here?
2. Why is non-religious male genital mutilation considered normal in the US?
3. Removed racist trolling, which was accidently reinstated.
4. Lawrence E. Stager
5. Why don't English speakers learn Latin anymore?
6. Li Yong
7. Offshore processing of refugees and irregular migrants to the European Union

July 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 15

1. Trying to recall short story
2. Admin roles
3. Deicide-by-human in non-Christian religions
4. Alfonso of Aragon
5. Did ports of entry have tons of dictionaries before electronic translators existed?

July 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 16

1. Is Greece technically able to print Euros on its own?
2. Highways England Traffic Officer Service article
3. Search for a particular Canadian postage stamp image
4. The Picture of Dorian Gray and aestheticism
5. Hilter and Wilhelm II

July 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 17

1. In-store USPS
2. Iran Nuclear Agreement
3. Disappearance of Joanne Ratcliffe and Kirste Gordon

July 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 18

1. Oceanian turbans
2. Was there a US senator who represent two countries?
3. Which side is whose?
4. Martin Luther King, Jr.

July 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 19

1. Why are bad things considered "good" by those that oppose them?
2. How do American atheists hold funerals?

July 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 20

1. Why did Bush and Obama let North Korea get nuclear bombs but not Iran?
2. Country With The Highest Life Expectancy In 1950
3. World Infant Mortality Rate
4. Why did the UK lose economic ground to France, Germany and Italy?
5. 20s vs 40s

July 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 21

1. Did anyone die from heat on 8 July 2003 in Dhahran?
2. Living to age 100 or more
3. to find correct reference Mkalburge (talk) 06:36, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
4. dames & knights
5. Females on slave ships.
6. English-speaking Buddhists
7. Why can't celibate Catholic priests castrate themselves?
8. Homosexual slavery in the United States
9. Slavery and US currency
10. Shackles and leg irons.
11. Germans

July 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 22

1. bronze age India
2. States vs Non-state societies vs something inbetween
3. Cutting the thumbs of Bengali weavers: reliable source?
4. Gurcharan Singh Bhikhi (Sidki)
5. Japanese consumers
6. The King's step-children

July 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 23

1. Conversion to Christianity in the 1700s - Robinson Crusoe
2. Are price tags in a store legally binding?
3. Capital of Denmark
4. Stylised Dublin map/diagram
5. Pearl Harbor
6. Police asking "You OK? You seem very irritated" when giving out a ticket: purpose?
7. Tokyo green belt

July 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 24

1. US copyright formalities, pre-craziness
2. Wire transfer with different beneficiary bank and receiving bank
3. Ethiopia: a landlocked nation
4. By-election results
5. At What Point Does a Treaty Become Invalid or Void Because It's Terms Are Secret or Unwritten?

July 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 25

1. When did The Adventures of Rupert Bear run?
2. Israel Shahak quotes?
3. Was this Israeli soldier quoting the Bible?
4. About a scene in Eisenstein "Ivan the Terrible" Part 2?
5. The UK-Parliment is a perfect o imperfect bicameral?
6. When a person dies, are you supposed to notify the credit reporting agencies?

July 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 26

1. history of the current european immigration laws.
2. Is Wikipedia English or American?
3. Albert Einstein long cat quote

July 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 27

1. Oldest named animal
2. Christian missionaries involved in Mangareva and the Gambier Islands
3. Why would Congress want an even number of justices on the U.S. Supreme Court?
4. Mute turns verbose
5. Deleuze & Guattari
6. Biographical research....
7. Why did France declare war on Britain in 1793?

July 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 28

1. No dark ages in middle east
2. respectable interconnections

July 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 29

1. The world's northernmost medieval building
2. The truth in Nazi germany
3. Michel-Gaspard Coppenrath
4. Papaoa
5. Entering the UK from France as Illegal immigrant

July 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 30

1. Is it still called religious conversion?
2. Looking for the title of a science fiction novel published in the last 10-15 years
3. Who said "A lie repeated often enough becomes the truth"?
4. Measuring the Effectiveness of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
5. Scams
6. Who were the Northallerton glasshouse mutineers?
7. Picpus Fathers

July 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 31

1. Segregation in the United States.
2. Xingjiang eastern border
3. Does any of those musical instruments exist?
4. Are paper books cheaper now in real terms than pre-Internet?
5. Apostasy in Catholicism
6. Were Hercules and Sampson the same guy?
7. Franco-New brunswick community and acadian community
8. Online sources for pre-1945 UK parliamentary by-elections