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January 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 January 1

1. Dates of readings by Edgar Cayce
2. How was the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet selected?

January 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 January 2

1. Backchannel communication between the belligerents in WW2

January 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 January 3

1. Towns of The Bahamas
2. San Marino, and Saint Marinus's church

January 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 January 4

1. Citing a U.S. Gov't officials' letter, which was not sent and is a draft version.
2. What was the geopolitical status of early Soviet-adjacent republics like Bukhara, Khorezm, Turkmen, and Uzbek?

January 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 January 5

1. Mentally ill MP in 1861
2. Captain D'Agoust
3. Hundred Days (1815)
4. Ancient regime in France

January 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 January 6

1. Seal of Gedialah

January 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 January 7

1. Was Eliza Jumel's attorney Hamilton Jr.?
2. Poland 1939 WWII Air Raid Codes
3. Cultural amnesia
4. Never rebuilt Japanese cities
5. Hodie mihi, cras tibi

January 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 January 8

1. Is this newspaper clipping from 1985 real?
2. say in recent airline scare
3. Ugliness
4. Ukrainian nationalism.

January 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 January 10

1. What is this folk song?
2. Is there a world map where sea and seashore pixels are color-coded by when Europeans learned which pixels had land?
3. Save classic music books please
4. English, Welsh & Scottish people all British?

January 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 January 11

1. Berkeley Public Schools Fund
2. Micro-Carillon?

January 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 January 12

1. Time of day boundaries
2. Artist Imre Góth
3. Four men charged over theft of £4.8m gold toilet from Blenheim Palace
4. Napoleon Bonaparte
5. Charles X of France

January 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 January 13

1. What is "new Islamic populism" ?
2. Did Brandenburg overturn Scales?

January 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 January 14

1. Name of two scholars
2. John Smith Clarke Politician

January 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 January 15

1. "Many think that ad hominem is actually a fallacy"
2. reprisal and precaution.

January 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 January 16

1. Task of being vague
2. G rating in 2004-and-later movies
3. Vacancies in the Israeli parliament
4. European Prize for Literature
5. Marquis de Launay (1740-1789)

January 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 January 17

1. precautions.
2. Requesting help in mapping village name and location
3. What was the closest thing to a coke (Coca-Cola) when Abraham Lincoln was alive?
4. A puerile representation of chief importance (...)
5. Oldest monarch to ascend to throne (older than Charles III)

January 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 January 18

1. One Hundred and One Dalmatians
2. Where is Becun?

January 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 January 19

1. Hijikata Toshizō

January 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 January 20

1. Tom Weller
2. Amir Tsarfati

January 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 January 21

1. O. Mail

January 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 January 22

1. Symbols in encyclopedia bios
2. RAS Macalister - votive altars

January 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 January 24

1. Albertans live far north
2. Universities in Middle East History B.A. M.A. programs
3. Historic multiple births
4. Help with text on an image

January 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 January 26

1. Prince of Lambesc (1751-1825)

January 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 January 27

1. Air-raid siren in 1983
2. Left-wing and women of colour around the world

January 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 January 28

1. Time limit on similar trap tactic as the Trap of Montevideo
2. Does the Port of New York and New Jersey have any roadsteads?

January 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 January 29

1. Tree hanging over a neighbour's fence

January 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 January 30

1. Gladstone and tea
2. Jury award