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September 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 1

1. Byzantines unable to stop the Lombards
2. Polynesian cultures and styles
3. Importance of STEM education for jobs

September 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 2

1. Novels with different titles in the US and UK
2. drawing blood
3. statistics on direction of transition for transgender people
4. Coming back to an abandoned embassy
5. Why did the CCC mandate that its participants send $25 home to their dependents?
6. I can't find sources on the Guinness Website about "largest gay/lgbt pride parades"

September 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 3

1. Kaiser San Francisco

September 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 4

1. Why do some provincial housing societies in Canada require a birth certificate in order to apply for subsidized housing?

September 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 5

1. Date of birth for a sitting U.S. Governor (Lolo Matalasi Moliga)
2. Tourism and Dutch disease
3. Are there any impediments to U.S. underground nuclear testing?
4. History textbooks in the UK

September 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 6

1. Arab numerals replacing Roman numerals

September 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 7

1. An odd scene in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
2. "If it was a snake it would have bit me" phenomenon

September 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 8

1. Community certificate for an OCI

September 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 9

1. Travel to US on a one-way ticket
2. Why did Greece stay Christian?

September 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 10

1. House arrest
2. PRINCE2 governance
3. Pre-Modern Knowledge of What Was Underwater

September 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 11

1. Mythological Inventors of Numbers
2. Myers-Briggs question
3. Scots' attitudes towards independence across the sectarian divide
4. Tropical storms and hurricanes: codes and numbers

September 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 12

1. How many small claims courts are there in the US?
2. Two questions about climate change denial
3. One over the eight
4. Equifax

September 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 14

1. Hanoverian succession
2. Russian hat

September 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 15

1. Anthony Weiner
2. Is rape about power and control or sexual gratification?
3. Evaluating religious bias and affirmative action

September 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 16

1. Textual lacunae and a Gnostic text
2. Hand signal?

September 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 17

1. Stereotypes of Indians/Pakistanis in the UK

September 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 18

1. Basque Flag with wyvern
2. Some one told me the Nazis were socialist.
3. Events noted as happening on election days

September 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 19

1. How did the struggle between Buddhism and Brahminism created the Dalit/untouchables in Indian society?
2. Battleship aiming
3. Is The Onion fake news?
4. Driving a stationery vehicle
5. Criminal sentencing and deterrence
6. MS-13 initiation question
7. Yahweh and his Asherah

September 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 20

1. How exactly do other countries figure out how to make nuclear weapons?

September 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 21

1. Country formation past and present
2. Are there countries where gay military members are allowed but gay sex isn't?
3. Employees on large capital programmes
4. Old age: 55-58 years
5. Southeast Asian country with no last name but a lot of Biblical names

September 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 22

1. Is St Stanislaus' College (Bathurst) the same as the Stanislaus Military College, as mentioned in this video about Georges Guynemer?

September 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 23

1. Non Aggression Principle
2. Unconscious bias
3. A judge's mistake

September 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 24

1. What happened to people in Kenya whose land was expropriated to British settlers?
2. Somalia on Crisis in Palestine/Islamic Extremism
3. Enki and Yahweh
4. Precisely what is a "collegiate dictionary"?

September 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 25

1. How exactly do countries assert control over land when the land is evolving?
2. Why is sound body in the will formula?

September 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 26

1. Are Afghani people Arab?
2. Narendra Modi
3. Why is the Christ myth theory popular among many atheists?
4. Why do Christians find it necessary to translate the Bible in other people's languages instead of preserving the original tongue?
5. Richard Dawkins and Eastern religions
6. What was the first ship too big to use New York Harbor without the help of harbor deepening while fully laden? Similarly for London.
7. What country has the highest rate of death by violence?

September 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 27

1. How do people know how old a civilization is?
2. lunatics
3. 2 Questions on global statistics
4. Are there countries where Colin Kaepernick is white?

September 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 28

1. Uncontacted peoples
2. Conservative support for marijuana legalization
3. First amendment
4. Shantou

September 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 29

1. Arizona Republic
2. Name of psychological sales trick

September 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 30

1. A Sex guide, which was it?
2. Thomas_Adams_(politician)