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April 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 April 1

  1. Possibly dumb etymology:hersh and cyrus.
  2. Reincarnation in the New Testament
  3. In what article can I get information about the history of cutlery using ?
  4. Eurotunnel capacity
  5. What is social media anyway?

April 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 April 2

  1. perhaps the most important quote on economics
  2. Identity of background music in YouTube video

April 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 April 3

  1. Definition of peasant
  2. History of politics

April 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 April 4

  1. How do they make films like that?
  2. Adoption in the US

April 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 April 5

  1. Berkshire Hathaway
  2. Common Law Marriage - Mississippi
  3. Identity

April 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 April 6

  1. 9999-year lease
  2. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shades_of_yellow#Royal_yellow Imperial yellow]
  3. essay on the film adaptation
  4. American race formation
  5. Japanese orphans in China, international adoptions, citizenship

April 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 April 8

  1. Tombs of the Kings of Zhou
  2. Internment of Japanese-, German-, and Italian-Americans - how did they distinguish them from other people?
  3. Works of art named after works of art - Matryoshka books

April 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 April 9

  1. Canberra
  2. The Lady's Magazine and Musical Repository
  3. Re: 2018 Gaza border protests (Great March of Return and the Day of the Tire)

April 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 April 10

  1. How to gain wisdom
  2. The Quintessence of Japanese Literature
  3. Online Study of the Paranormal

April 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 April 11

  1. Is phenol haram?
  2. Joseph Mccarthy

April 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 April 12

  1. A law against threats

April 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 April 13

  1. John Galt=ubermensch?
  2. Shoe throwing in classical antiquity
  3. One hundred guineas for James Cook
  4. fine

April 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 April 14

  1. Dealer as in the Tomb Raider film
  2. Rockets or air defense?

April 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 April 15

  1. Sharing adult videos without the women's consent
  2. Do people have to obey the law of the land because they are citizens or because the government owns the land?
  3. Campaign funds for congress and senate
  4. Prince Antony Liechtenstein

April 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 April 16

  1. Why do Catholic priests actually do in exorcisms that make people victims in sexual abuse cases?

April 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 April 17

  1. Sunken islands and their territorial waters
  2. Official visit of George II of Greece to Romania?
  3. All decisions made, all passion spent

April 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 April 18

  1. Early acceptance of Darwinian evolution
  2. Legal response to a chemical attack
  3. Territory the United States chose not to acquire
  4. How is "social integration" operationalized as part of the ILO definition for "decent work"?

April 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 April 19

  1. Missing pages in Keith's Sanskrit Drama
  2. How do the new names given to a newcomer to a religious order (Catholic and Buddhist) dealt with by modern governments?
  3. Source of quote

April 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 April 20

  1. Julian’s Beard-Hater: was it a chicken or a goose?
  2. The face of Medieval Europe?
  3. Jewish wedding
  4. Hippocrates cum gentibus

April 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 April 21

  1. US attack on Syria
  2. Terminal Island - 2000 census data

April 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 April 22

  1. Lebanese electorate by religion
  2. What is the way of calculation ISEP Index?
  3. International copyright issues

April 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 April 23

  1. Listening to BBC radio broadcasts in Denmark during the Nazi occupation
  2. "The role was considered the most lucrative foreign service position at the time"

April 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 April 24

  1. Olympians and the NYSE
  2. How'd they choose between naming the Olympics after Daegwallyeong Township, Pyeongchang County, Gangneung "city-county" or Gangwon Province?

April 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 April 25

  1. Is lust the best vice?
  2. King Idris' sons
  3. Impact factors: anyone knowledgeable?
  4. Unprotected sex
  5. Chinese Revolution of 1949

April 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 April 26

  1. What is a "det. officer?"
  2. Photo clarification
  3. How common are 1st world building codes that let you live in an exact* 2018 replica of an Ancient Greek or Roman house?

April 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 April 27

  1. President Trump’s beliefs
  2. Does being a sustenance farmer count as being self-employed?
  3. the founding fathers and tyranny
  4. Growth of top household incomes in US when adjusted for increased housing costs
  5. First Chinese ruler
  6. Is lust the only vice which would end almost all multicellular life if it vanished?
  7. Which prostitution laws result in the least child sexual exploitation?
  8. provincial cheques

April 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 April 28

  1. Is this something that already exists?
  2. Personal names on résumés
  3. Runaway children and doorstep babies

April 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 April 29

  1. Railway Liability Act
  2. Finding a tikkun soferim

April 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 April 30

  1. mix of government types
  2. How do low-income people start a family?
  3. Potplants popular in the 1920s
  4. Danish Krone or Faroese Krone
  5. How did the old Tibetans take in enough vitamin D? (Vitamin D deficiency)