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March 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 March 1

1. How enlightened was Sarastro?
2. Which is the oldest city arms?
3. Exotic areas within the same country
4. Saving Private Ryan
5. During Henry VIII's reign, what areas did he control besides England?
6. Where can I find a copy of the 1964 Constitution of Haiti in English?
7. Who controlled Aquitaine in 1066?

March 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 March 2

1. Turkmenistan
2. Vanilla Coke
3. Aunts ...
4. Precedence of Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia
5. Thailand
6. Do any U.S. politicians, think tanks or pressure groups advocate unrestricted immigration from Mexico to the U.S.?
7. Good careers for people who enjoy helping others
8. Dubai

March 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 March 3

1. Jane Eyre
2. Adloyada
3. Atlas, Atlantic
4. Bills from the UK House of Lords
5. Starboard port side
6. History
7. Friendlessness = disorder?
8. Citing the Statutes at Large

March 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 March 4

1. Georgia
2. Question about ISIS videos: Why do some ISIS members hide their faces, while others do not?
3. Stock Market Traders - How many Globally?
4. Gets the message
5. German stay permit

March 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 March 5

1. Delphic oracle
2. Nicholas II
3. Was Heidegger a Seminarian?
4. Chinese military no longer called PLA?
5. History 2
6. Tight clothes
7. MEDIEVAL TRADE OF FOOD ?
8. Where are the keys of a piano defined?

March 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 March 6

1. Okhrana
2. website comparing UK as unitary and Canada as a federation
3. Syrian swastika?
4. historical sculpture
5. New communism
6. Pre Indian southeast asia
7. Problems Dubai is facing as a developed city
8. What System of rule would this be?
9. Who should clean in a utopic fair society?

March 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 March 7

1. Bhagavad Gita
2. 'Red hot coals' on moon

March 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 March 8

1. Portugal
2. Libraries
3. Burying somebody on public land?

March 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 March 9

1. Georgia the U.S. State
2. Government
3. Pre-European Australian religion
4. During the 15th-19th centuries, did European Christians recognize each other as Christians?
5. Venezuela

March 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 March 10

1. market
2. Which Progressive policy influenced the Seventeenth Amendment?
3. Margaret Thatcher

March 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 March 11

1. Alledged election fraud
2. Unmarried companions and scholars and died like that
3. 6th program FOCAC 2015
4. Art can't be replicated?
5. Recording of evidence from a closed case?
6. Walter de Coutances
7. The five Coles brother knights

March 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 March 12

1. God, King and Democracy
2. Cuba
3. Russian literature

March 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 March 13

1. Why is this space venture not a scam?
2. Is mathematics necessary in qualitative thinking, such as in making moral or value judgments?
3. Brother and fatherly protectiveness

March 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 March 14

1. 2015 UK Election predictions
2. If mathematics is the language of quantitative thinking, what exactly is the language of qualitative thinking?
3. Early Spanish contacts with Japan
4. Anti-Corruption in the UK
5. First from the Right
6. Hemisemidemiminim
7. Neo nazism and young earth creationism
8. Louisiana Demographics: or how to surf census data

March 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 March 15

1. Monarchs friendly with Leftwing parties
2. New technologies
3. Wand or Staff for a bishop
4. Archbishop and direct positions below
5. Universality of clapping

March 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 March 16

1. Presbyterian wedding
2. What is when a bishop is "received" at a church?
3. French magazines automobiles

March 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 March 17

1. Why did Latin lose its central role?
2. Capitalists
3. Percentage of the World's People who are Farmers
4. Poor Farmers
5. World's oldest bureaucracy
6. Venus of Tan-Tan
7. "Will the Christians allow us to make a Hanuman temple in the Vatican?"

March 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 March 18

1. Did Horace translate the Iliad or Odyssey
2. Were the US and Britain ever equally powerful?
3. Edward VIII as privy council member
4. Empire of Kipjak

March 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 March 19

1. Political parties israel threshold 3.25%
2. Science in the bible
3. History
4. Teens more intelligent?

March 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 March 20

1. Confused about satire
2. Destruction of copyright-infringing works
3. Swapping sisters
4. Jonas in the Whale

March 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 March 21

1. History of average number of years getting formal education
2. Beavis and Butthead

March 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 March 22

1. Learning performing arts
2. Age of Cambridge University Press Bible by edition notice
3. Non Home Office Police Forces in England and Wales
4. Napoleon discriminated as a Corsican

March 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 March 23

1. A "credit bank" that gives interest on postive balances?
2. n-archies

March 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 March 24

1. brother jonathan
2. Pirates and venereal diseases
3. Incorrect British Empire Medal List
4. Women's Headgear
5. Masculine versions of female names
6. Unconscious thought theory
7. Taddea Visconti's cause of death

March 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 March 25

1. I seek data on ancient Hx, and find nothing prior to the 1600's for ancient native Americans in NJ's Seacaucus area from where I have a 3,000 plus era stone axe-head.
2. That's unAustralian
3. Did Nietzsche commit coprophagia?

March 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 March 26

1. Confusion of Priorities
2. Adele bloch bauer
3. Congressional Monitor

March 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 March 27

1. Panagia Church territory in Farsala
2. Doublûres of Characters
3. England & Wales Common Law Offences
4. Name this nasheed

March 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 March 28

1. Help with Romanian written in Cyrillic characters
2. The Afterlife in Judaism
3. The Annotated Alice

March 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 March 29

1. Legal removal from power in history
2. Jane Williams' marital status
3. The fair housing act - "preference or requirement"?
4. Plaintiff in error
5. Origin of Palm Branches

March 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 March 30

1. Chant and organum notation
2. Beheading

March 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 March 31

1. ChildFund
2. Cross-dressing in ancient East Asian cultures
3. Harry Houdini
4. Africans
5. John Major
6. Social dancing, lead and follow
7. Editorial Independence.
8. Buying stock