Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/May 2024

= May 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 May 1


 * 1) "The Tay Bridge Disaster" really that bad of a poem?
 * 2) Why ♭ seems be more popular than ♯ ?
 * 3) Hitler's employment

= May 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 May 2


 * 1) Profile painting of a man wearing a turban or similar in a blue background

= May 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 May 3


 * 1) Women trafficked to the harems in the 20th-century
 * 2) Declining numbers of US lawyers
 * 3) Danish Islands

= May 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 May 4


 * 1) What industries dominate each U.S. state?
 * 2) American Constitution and Art support

= May 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 May 6


 * 1) Trump and Rubio
 * 2) Scottish Episcopal Church
 * 3) Providing historical context for photographs of Berlin, Dresden, and Prague as Communism fell in 1989

= May 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 May 9


 * 1) Immanuel Kant, Benjamin Franklin
 * 2) Slavery in Vietnam

= May 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 May 10


 * 1) German South West Africa
 * 2) Vlaamse Koning

= May 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 May 11


 * 1) East-west interstates go 10,20,30,40,64,70,80,90 with no 50

= May 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 May 14


 * 1) Grade level splitting/staggering in American schools
 * 2) 2004–2009 UAE population boom
 * 3) Is xe.com a reliable source for checking exchange rates?
 * 4) Can the name of Virginia be changed to East Virginia?

= May 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 May 15


 * 1) payment aggregators and payment gateways
 * 2) Walmart
 * 3) House of Stairs II by M. C. Escher

= May 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 May 16


 * 1) Roman Inscriptions
 * 2) Numbers and colors on a Japanese calendar

= May 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 May 18


 * 1) Concerning cameras
 * 2) Wazimamoto

= May 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 May 22


 * 1) Healey, Jenkins, and who? Blackpool 1945

= May 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 May 23


 * 1) Is Britain the only country to have comedy candididates at elections?

= May 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 May 24


 * 1) The Pahlavi Dynasty and the Syrian Civil War
 * 2) Why was Chad not suspended from the African Union as the only country from the Coup Belt?
 * 3) Timeline of national flags
 * 4) Goddess with offering vessel on head

= May 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 May 25


 * 1) Time of SQ321 incident
 * 2) Wuxing iconography

= May 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 May 26


 * 1) Hua Qing minigun
 * 2) Why did much of the Netherlands go Gregorian in 1583.0?

= May 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 May 28


 * 1) clarification.
 * 2) Bengali naming conventions in the US?

= May 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 May 29


 * 1) US lawsuits
 * 2) NY Trump trial
 * 3) Flags at presidential inaugurations: the Hawaiian anomaly
 * 4) Nye Bevan and Tredegarisation
 * 5) Argument made only to illustrate a point