Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/August 2020

= August 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 1


 * 1) Is Boris putting children at risk?
 * 2) What would happen if some country printed money to pay all his debt under those very specific condintions?
 * 3) Do Social Security Applications exist online for people who died in 2010?
 * 4) belief in water one's reflection

= August 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 2


 * 1) Powers of an outgoing US President

= August 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 3


 * 1) The eradication of memories of the Great War
 * 2) Does anyone ever found a way to solve his own Dunning–Kruger effect?

= August 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 4


 * 1) Genre of fiction dealing with European visits to Africa.
 * 2) When was peak women's clothing modesty?
 * 3) Dr Livingstone I presume?

= August 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 5


 * 1) What happens if there are delays in determining the winner in the USA 2020 Presidential elections?
 * 2) Achaemenid historians
 * 3) Is there a place where I can conduct Human subject research without regulations?
 * 4) Short Story Collection by Japanese Author

= August 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 6


 * 1) Italy America assistance
 * 2) Why do so many Muslim countries hate Israel so much?
 * 3) Gin with onions

= August 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 7


 * 1) Which historical countries have had the highest relative prisoner population?
 * 2) The penultimate line in Robert Ludlum's "The Holcroft Covenant"

= August 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 8


 * 1) Very large index fund investment
 * 2) cheerleaders in the medical field

= August 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 9


 * 1) Economic effects of CFA franc on former French colonies in sub-saharan Africa?

= August 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 10


 * 1) Nordic perfection?
 * 2) In the USA, does an Acting President have the same powers as the President?
 * 3) Klan bible

= August 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 11


 * 1) Question about Wikipedia: articles that are rarely edited
 * 2) Gem family, solicitors, of Birmingham, England
 * 3) Mugshot
 * 4) Stark's expedition to measure seawater gold
 * 5) Executive orders in practice - limited to those binding by law?
 * 6) Why do Southern U.S. schools start so early?

= August 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 12


 * 1) Subtitle of the Smyth Report
 * 2) 300 Spartans in a battle to the death (not the really famous guys)
 * 3) If a US state constitutional provision gets declared unconstitutional but a US state refuses to formally expunge this provision from its constitution, can it permanently remain there but simply always be unenforceable?

= August 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 13


 * 1) Friendly fire between Americans or Hessians during the American Revolution
 * 2) Quote source
 * 3) Vice President of Kamala Harris
 * 4) Is Boris putting children at risk?

= August 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 14


 * 1) Did any real fighting shields look like US highway shields?
 * 2) Chess clock increments
 * 3) Do Cadet Nurses qualify?

= August 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 16


 * 1) Wearing an elephant scalp
 * 2) Who was R. SAUERWALD?

= August 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 17


 * 1) State leaders continuously reelected in fair elections
 * 2) What is considered best by mainstream economists deflation (NOT hyperdeflation) or Hyperinflation?

= August 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 18


 * 1) Humans are bad at risk
 * 2) Why wasn't outsourcing a thing before the late 20th century?

= August 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 19


 * 1) Request for info on Polish noms-de-guerre
 * 2) The flag on "flag of Belarus" is wrong.

= August 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 21


 * 1) Hunter-gatherer vs. farmer evolutionary psychology
 * 2) US election night concessions

= August 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 22


 * 1) An Asian custom
 * 2) Bude-Light in Trafalgar Square

= August 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 23


 * 1) Legality of secretly recording private conversations

= August 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 26


 * 1) Police killings increase in the US
 * 2) Earworm-like phenomenon

= August 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 27


 * 1) Historical evidence of Apostles
 * 2) home front casualties during WWII

= August 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 28


 * 1) Swatis (Pashtun tribe)

= August 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 30


 * 1) Volhynia as an Austro-Hungarian war aim during World War I?
 * 2) They must have had a really strong union: they only worked for a week.
 * 3) Miracles in post-second-temple Judaism?
 * 4) Queen mother
 * 5) How did they decide Japan occupation of Korea, North Mariana etc bad, "Norther Marianas" and almost Taiwan good?
 * 6) Is the Edict of Expulsion still extant
 * 7) Reichsflagge

= August 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 August 31


 * 1) Bruce Angrave's birth date
 * 2) Style's Judges