Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/August 2018

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 * 1) Artist behind these works

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 * 1) Latin name of Strathclyde
 * 2) Borders of the Republic of Texas

= August 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 3


 * 1) David Hogg article fact check (age)
 * 2) Royal Order 1887
 * 3) T. Fujita and N. Nakayama

= August 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 4


 * 1) On smiling in antiquity
 * 2) On the second temple
 * 3) On difficile lectu
 * 4) On Mozart's BFF Voltaire
 * 5) A simple question about Christmas

= August 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 5


 * 1) Institutions working together

= August 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 6


 * 1) "We have to tell the police"
 * 2) American Revolution historiography

= August 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 7


 * 1) What rhyme is this?

= August 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 8


 * 1) Tadashi Yasuda
 * 2) Light-field camera
 * 3) Employment contract buyouts in Spain
 * 4) Modern name of "Abuscheher"
 * 5) Civilian inventions in the military
 * 6) References for the Society for Social Studies of Science

= August 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 9


 * 1) Pipe smoking ... a candle?
 * 2) Historical person with name in mixed alphabets

= August 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 10


 * 1) Does GDPR affect US companies that happen to have EU customers or even just visitors to their website?
 * 2) Identity of photographer
 * 3) "High King of Scotland"
 * 4) rephrasing my institution question

= August 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 11


 * 1) On incest and the gentry
 * 2) Nelly Sbton or Nelly Sebton
 * 3) Dance name

= August 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 12


 * 1) Ur-Horatio Hornblower
 * 2) Yongli Emperor and Christianity
 * 3) Hodey-ho di-ho di-ho
 * 4) Collective term for continent, country, state, city, etc.
 * 5) Siblings

= August 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 13


 * 1) Anglican Church and Sola Fide

= August 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 14


 * 1) Clan Swinton
 * 2) Was this historically accurate?
 * 3) Faded writing at the top of St. Peter's Square Obelisk (Vatican City)?

= August 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 15


 * 1) Jika-tabi

= August 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 16


 * 1) On Nero's last phrases
 * 2) Weddings with bride asked first

= August 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 17


 * 1) Military history
 * 2) Vasily II of Moscow and the Byzantines
 * 3) what exactly constitutes a breach of academic integrity?

= August 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 19


 * 1) looking for a young adult novel/tv serial
 * 2) Slaves in Mesoamerica

= August 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 20


 * 1) US Presidents and Royal Caricature
 * 2) Notability?
 * 3) Medieval year-ends
 * 4) Identifying corruption in tendering process
 * 5) Are there any states that extend the felony voting rule a little into the past?
 * 6) Eleonor Ann Ram, later Mrs Archibald Campbell

= August 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 21


 * 1) Constitutions that prohibit life imprisonment
 * 2) Hanna Akiva
 * 3) Repentant criminals

= August 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 22


 * 1) are educational institutions required to file suspicious activity reports under the Bank Secrecy Act?
 * 2) the diver who died in the thai cave rescue
 * 3) Sovereign bolivar
 * 4) Descriptor?

= August 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 23


 * 1) Hitler 's abilities as a strategic military commander
 * 2) What if Turnbull refused to hold a spill?
 * 3) For-profit hospitals and abortion: Are the big hospital companies abortion providers?

= August 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 24


 * 1) Pre-decimal British currency denominations abbrev.
 * 2) Manafort pardon
 * 3) Rejecting an ambassador
 * 4) Statistics on European immigration to Algeria
 * 5) Pictish king

= August 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 25


 * 1) Orders from the CofE on the subject of poor M

= August 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 26


 * 1) Publication date of An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth
 * 2) Eleve Consul

= August 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 27


 * 1) Weimar republic post-inflationary wages, in currency
 * 2) young aristocrat carrying a cane?

= August 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 28


 * 1) An unidentifiable place described as Lensham

= August 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 29


 * 1) Looking for any info on Asian coin found in Queensland, Australia.
 * 2) Did any Cuban rebels in the 1890s want Cuba to be annexed by the U.S.?
 * 3) History: early civilizations and polytheism.

= August 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 30


 * 1) Jeremiah Evarts Chamberlain
 * 2) Kitchener's three salaries
 * 3) Prayer as Cultural universal?

= August 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 August 31


 * 1) Kitchener - "he is not a great man, he is a great poster"
 * 2) Publicly announcing deaths several days after the death occurs in East Asia
 * 3) Is this valid method of procurement in any government agency in utility sector
 * 4) Pisan title to Sardinia
 * 5) Greek Orthodoxy on Sardinia
 * 6) Mark Levin and Alex Jones