Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/January 2021

= January 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 1


 * 1) Spanish Armada
 * 2) Military Base Names
 * 3) 1925 military uniform in file

= January 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 2


 * 1) After article or article detail from NY Times Machine -- who has access?
 * 2) What made the Byzantine Empire much weaker in the 14th century in comparison to the 13th century?
 * 3) Baike Baidu
 * 4) "Nordic race"

= January 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 3


 * 1) Fountain pen ink

= January 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 4


 * 1) Klick
 * 2) Ethnic groups that achieved ethnogenesis largely or completely as a result of Communist rule?

= January 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 5


 * 1) Ideologies or concepts comparable to Lebensraum?
 * 2) Nur Sultan/Nur Soltan

= January 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 6


 * 1) Kalmyk separatism
 * 2) I need to find 11,700 more votes
 * 3) How mountaineers avoid sinking into deep snow covers?
 * 4) Where was this arrest image from?
 * 5) Treason law in the USA
 * 6) Army?
 * 7) Contact between Siberian and American peoples post-migration

= January 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 7


 * 1) Why are there hymns but not hers?
 * 2) Highest Presidential Approval Rates
 * 3) bling on a politician
 * 4) Capitol Breaches? (Not sure if that's the right word)
 * 5) Ancient blackamoors
 * 6) Prominent cases of "second acts" in United States politics?

= January 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 8


 * 1) Japanese Cultural Center in Bangkok

= January 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 9


 * 1) What age/era came after romantic era?
 * 2) New-XYZ
 * 3) Trumps children

= January 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 10


 * 1) electoral certificates
 * 2) Christianity related question
 * 3) Impact of Covid compared to past pandemics?
 * 4) US soldiers in Iraq
 * 5) Other cases where the law forces one to endure extraordinary burdens in order to have a guaranteed shot to escape/avoid legal responsibilities/obligations?
 * 6) Watteau's Le Printemps

= January 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 11


 * 1) Which religion came first? Jainism or Hinduism?
 * 2) Most logistically challenging military operations?
 * 3) Cases where there were (often irrational) fears of people of a different race or ethnic group invading one's country?
 * 4) Impeachment playbook?

= January 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 12


 * 1) Number of US Capitol rioters
 * 2) Cheque Payment
 * 3) Edward C. Ash
 * 4) Getting a super-condor in golf
 * 5) Large-scale United States military interventions that were seriously considered and proposed but ultimately rejected?
 * 6) Who are these women (and one man)

= January 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 13


 * 1) Are there any promiscuous women exist in Islam?
 * 2) Yeltsin on a tank
 * 3) Would Speaker of the House get their job back after being VP?
 * 4) United States intelligence gathering in the years and decades before the creation of the CIA
 * 5) Mysterious Beethoven busts
 * 6) More 25th amendment

= January 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 14


 * 1) America
 * 2) Khomeini's the Little Green Book

= January 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 15


 * 1) Blair House library
 * 2) India is great power?
 * 3) Baptist ministers

= January 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 16


 * 1) Random spike in page views for minor Baroque composer
 * 2) Rejection of acquisition
 * 3) Largest diaspora communities in percentage terms

= January 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 17


 * 1) Why was there no large-scale anti-Mexican rebellion in Alta California in the early 19th century like there was in Texas?
 * 2) Flag of Suriname Problem
 * 3) The so-called Quadruple Alliance, and its expedition to Jerusalem in 1840
 * 4) I'm looking to confirm a reference on Dracula

= January 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 18


 * 1) Territories that had constant warfare for decades over the last several decades?
 * 2) Peinliches Verhoer - an image with unknown origin
 * 3) Courts for state-sponsored terrorism
 * 4) Same ship?
 * 5) What is "abolt"?

= January 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 19


 * 1) "Democracies always fail because people vote for more benefits"
 * 2) State action and enforcing the US Senate's equal apportionment and the electoral college?

= January 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 20


 * 1) Requesting inputs
 * 2) Shi'a separatism in Saudi Arabia
 * 3) Iranian plans if Iran would have won the Iran-Iraq War?
 * 4) QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER
 * 5) History the past

= January 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 21


 * 1) Most ambitious wars of conquest throughout history?
 * 2) Who was Honoricus (the one eaten by worms)?
 * 3) Swearing on a Bible . . . or something else . ..

= January 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 22


 * 1) Territorial ambitions of Russian Fascists
 * 2) When was grain refining invented?
 * 3) U.S. Grant's first presidential inauguration
 * 4) A John Bright text

= January 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 23


 * 1) Countries that were intended as temporary creations and as stepping stones to annexation by some other, larger country?
 * 2) Summary judgment and letters of credit
 * 3) Fate of POWs at the end of WWII

= January 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 24


 * 1) Looking for a poem
 * 2) Candace Award last given

= January 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 25


 * 1) Margaret Adelaide Wilson
 * 2) Parti conscience universelle
 * 3) Tolkien etymological reference
 * 4) Territorial secessions that occurred as a result of a revolution and/or regime change?
 * 5) J. Paul Getty at Oxford

= January 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 27


 * 1) Old French money vs today's American dollars
 * 2) Third Secret of Fatima
 * 3) Ronald Reagan assassination attempt bullets question

= January 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 28


 * 1) Looking for old version of American Revolution  article
 * 2) Namesake of Moremi Game Reserve

= January 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 29


 * 1) Where are the other 10%
 * 2) What's going on in this image?
 * 3) Why did Malaysia, Brunei, and Indonesia never join SEATO?
 * 4) Handkerchiefs marked with hair

= January 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 30


 * 1) kevin clinesmith
 * 2) Why didn't the Soviet Union allow polygamy after World War II for European ethnic groups?
 * 3) Earliest historical figure known to have all four grandparents alive when he/she was born
 * 4) Why the reversal of blue and red when discussing politics?
 * 5) Afghanistan and the Soviet Union's unwillingness to crush Solidarity in Poland
 * 6) If Ronald Reagan is assassinated in 1981, is there any realistic way to get the Curse of Tippecanoe to extend into the 2000s?
 * 7) Political party that can be symbolized with violet

= January 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 January 31


 * 1) Catholic Churches becoming Orthodox
 * 2) Prominent United States politicians dying during George W. Bush's Presidency
 * 3) Can you plead guilty at an impeachment trial?
 * 4) Unseen characters in books?