Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/May 2024

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May 1

Wikipedia: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

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 May 2

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

May 3

Wikipedia: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

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 May 4

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

May 6

Wikipedia: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

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 May 9

  1. Immanuel Kant, Benjamin Franklin
  2. Slavery in Vietnam

May 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 May 10

  1. German South West Africa
  2. Vlaamse Koning

May 11

Wikipedia: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

Wikipedia: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

Wikipedia: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

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 May 16

  1. Roman Inscriptions
  2. Numbers and colors on a Japanese calendar

May 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 May 18

  1. Concerning cameras
  2. Wazimamoto

May 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 May 22

  1. Healey, Jenkins, and who? Blackpool 1945

May 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 May 23

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

May 24

Wikipedia: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

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 May 25

  1. Time of SQ321 incident
  2. Wuxing iconography

May 26

Wikipedia: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

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 May 28

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

May 29

Wikipedia: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
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