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March 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 March 1

1. Officer unable to quit?
2. Judicial review cases: 'R v...'
3. Core budget of global NGO peacebuilding
4. Acceptable imagery
5. A-10 Warthog export possibility.
6. Totalitarianism and loyalty
7. Spay/Neuter customs in England

March 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 March 2

1. Help me with this question
2. Number of postal codes in Singapore
3. Button factory runner-up
4. Shell shock (WW1)
5. What stars is the Emir of Bokhara wearing?

March 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 March 3

1. Could the Republicans choose not to run a candidate?
2. Charity oversight in the USA

March 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 March 4

1. Avoiding being sent to fight in Vietnam War by claiming to be gay
2. Marxism simplified
3. Slaves inheriting their master's position?

March 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 March 5

1. How did the Nazis treat converts to Judaism
2. UK EU Membership referendum
3. Child soldiers photo
4. Causes of death
5. madrasas at Sultan Hassan's Mosque in Cairo

March 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 March 6

1. State-Founding Conference in Mongolia
2. The Marshall Islands' case against the Nuclear powers
3. Fighting the Franco-Prussian War
4. Is this actually real propaganda or just satire? (Mussolini)

March 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 March 7

1. Contents of the casket
2. How do doctors assess whether someone is malingering and faking a mental illness?
3. Bible translation
4. Sources of info for UK referendum.
5. Inclusion criteria for Template:Mayors of the largest cities in the world by GDP
6. Commercialisation
7. Which European nationality group votes most Democratic in US elections?

March 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 March 8

1. North Korea part of the WHO's SEA region?
2. If there were no Taiping Rebellion in the Qing Dynasty China, would Hong Kong exist?
3. Interdimensional travel...
4. Birth before/after stories
5. Peter the Great

March 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 March 9

1. Why don't third parties in the USA have any political power?
2. Iraq map 1990 online?
3. Nazi Germany's intelligence operations against the USSR during World War II

March 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 March 10

1. Double cousins

March 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 March 11

1. Ibrahim father of the prophets
2. Constitution Restoration Act?

March 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 March 12

1. When the blacks became the blacks in the US?

March 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 March 13

1. Name a Musical Instrument
2. What happens if no candidate receives the required number of delegates in the Republican Party presidential primaries for 2016?
3. "Kangaroo Courts" etc.

March 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 March 14

1. Why do I need a broker?
2. Early 20thC world map
3. Is it true that Demosthenes and Aristotle shared the same dates of birth and death?
4. Insurance
5. Cost of Monarchy

March 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 March 15

1. Socher Reshus, Orthodox Judaic law, and the Establishment clause
2. The Story of Philosophy

March 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 March 16

1. Latin and the Bible
2. God Too Good For Hell
3. Year of the Bull Meese — can U.S. presidential candidates make binding agreements?
4. More Trump questions
5. Argonauts
6. meditation
7. EJ Roye Building image
8. J. J. Geoghan

March 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 March 17

1. Protestant on the Supreme Court?
2. Republican primaries, people feeling betrayed?
3. Miniature depicting siege at Fall of Constantinople
4. R-World
5. Living Longer and Population

March 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 March 19

1. Formal title for customs agent
2. Adagio in G minor
3. Cold War, Dictatorship, Etc., themed films
4. Communism and Communalism

March 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 March 20

1. Is Palestine really a sovereign state now, on par with Israel?
2. Thomas Dekker (c. 1572 – 25 August 1632)
3. "Die Stem van Suid-Afrika" and "La Marseillaise"
4. Emanuel Bronner categories
5. Has communism ever actually worked?

March 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 March 21

1. I am looking for a movie to work on Wikipedia
2. A. C. Cuza
3. Why is Wales the poorest of 12 regions of the UK?
4. Law enforcement officers entering a home

March 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 March 23

1. In the Republican presidential primaries of 2016, what happens to Marco Rubio's 169 delegates?
2. Does this quote from the movie THE THIN RED LINE appear in a book?
3. USPS Super Hub
4. War with ISIS?
5. Accuracy of ancient dates

March 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 March 24

1. How exactly did Judas betray Jesus? What exactly was the betrayal?
2. If recess appointments can simply be rescinded, what is the big deal about them? Why the controversy?
3. Lost admiral

March 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 March 26

1. Why does the Roman Catholic Church not allow Mass on Good Friday?
2. How do British gentlemen's clubs get away with discrimination?
3. Survey type
4. Flat issue

March 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 March 27

1. Japanese flag ratio
2. Do old people get judged faster?

March 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 March 28

1. Senate approval for appointments to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors
2. Eugene V. Debs
3. Names for the Left
4. Who is guilty of what? (Parable of the Six Welders)
5. What if no one wins an election?

March 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 March 29

1. Hoelderlin poem

March 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 March 30

1. What are some of Rama's (Hindu god) special powers/abilities?
2. Is Yale a (moveable) corporation?
3. Bullochites
4. Life expectancy in Medieval Europe
5. Berlin/Bonn
6. Poetry
7. Art

March 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 March 31

1. Real estate loans as a percentage of all outstanding bank loans
2. Transparency effect in marble sculpture
3. Can the U.S elect a dead president?
4. Escapism
5. English Lityerature