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March 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 March 1

1. Nero
2. Are there any anti-ISIS or anti-jihad nasheeds?
3. Jennifer Granholm

March 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 March 2

1. Why James Brown sweated profusely?

March 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 March 3

1. Question about plot with police and criminals
2. Works about the Theresienstadt Ghetto
3. A French person travelling back in time to the 1320s or 1330s: Would he actually be able to communicate with the locals of this time period?
4. Vietcong Guerilla Literature
5. US military in China (late-1930s/early-1940s)

March 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 March 4

1. Skeletons of Chinese rulers
2. Retaining NATO after the Soviet Union breakup
3. Pugin's memorial to Phillipps VC

March 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 March 5

1. Voting patterns of black immigrants to the US and their US-born descendants
2. Operation Highjump

March 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 March 6

1. Richard Nixon's thoughts on what he would have done in regards to Vietnam had he won back in 1960?
2. Painting by Abraham Hondius
3. Antarctica in WW2

March 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 March 7

1. Animated maps of the course of the Iraq War (2003-2011)
2. Index of periodical articles?
3. The most succesful Dressmaker in Victorian London

March 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 March 8

1. Why do Americans care so much about the British royals?

March 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 March 9

1. Is Alko a supermarket?
2. Xiongnu

March 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 March 10

1. Industrialization in North Vietnam and South Vietnam in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s
2. Maison de Robespierre
3. Freisler and Vyshinsky
4. Lupu Dinescu
5. Is there a name for this type of book?

March 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 March 11

1. Other cases where the U.S. engaged in military action to prevent countries from falling to Communist rule?
2. United States Antarctic Service Expedition
3. Former Shi'a-majority territories and/or regions?

March 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 March 12

1. Between Queen Victoria and the Parliament in the XIX century
2. Mystical experiences without drug use
3. Kaiser Wilhelm II and German foreign policy in the run-up to World War I
4. Darwin's Bulldog
5. Henry II's English Residence
6. German Pacific Commerce raiders

March 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 March 13

1. Carl Craig - conflicting birth information
2. Insurgencies question
3. Territorial purchases Wikipedia article: Should the French purchase of Corsica from Genoa be included?

March 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 March 15

1. airwave breach 1/4/2021
2. When the raindrops come along
3. Sihanouk question
4. Love and romance in Pakistan
5. Birth registration for non-Westerners, non-Japanese, and non-Christians 100+ years ago?

March 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 March 16

1. Birth registration question
2. Outdated Countries
3. Vitezslav's poem Edison (poem)
4. His Masters Voice
5. It seems to me there is an error, or at least a contradiction, in Wikipedia’s “Connecticut Colony” article.
6. Gombe Chimpanzee War

March 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 March 17

1. Do any other religions have anything comparable to a baptism (and excluding marriage) in the first 20 years of one's life?
2. Longest imprisoned monarch
3. Walt Streightiff
4. US military in China (late-1930s/early-1940s)

March 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 March 18

1. Is there a name for the "poisoned candy" argument?
2. House of Habsburg-Lorraine question

March 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 March 19

1. Black Sea drainage basin
2. Lomond Hills Regional Park
3. Francis Dereham - He was the reason the Queen died?

March 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 March 20

1. What was the most recent new town established in New York state prior to Palm Tree?
2. A reliable source for specific Ukrainian polling data
3. Wearing a belt among the Jews in the 2nd century AD
4. Connections or references?
5. Josef K

March 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 March 21

1. Did any US states have a voting age of 20 or below in 1916?
2. I need help finding a copy of an article in Human Events from 1978

March 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 March 23

1. The Russian Revolution of 1905 and republicanism
2. The abolition of the Ottoman Empire and the Caliphate and the 1947 partition of India: Is there any connection between these things?
3. Access to the Diary of Hannah Szenes
4. Carriage stripper
5. Settler colonialism that was at least largely done for the purposes of reducing separatism and weakening separatist movements?
6. Queen Victoria's dressmaker

March 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 March 24

1. Slane & Hughes , 19th century, any connections?
2. GEDmatch: When do matches get updated?
3. The Taliban, photography, and the Internet
4. Civil War records
5. American Civil War POW Records

March 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 March 25

1. Student parietal
2. Symptoms of schizophrenia
3. How to access microfilm
4. 1879 Virginia General Assembly Members
5. gulf coastal cities considered geography of coastal elites in US

March 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 March 26

1. Photo Rights

March 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 March 27

1. medium-term nobility
2. QCs and notability
3. Persian couplet
4. Origin of family name "... de Santa Anna"
5. Swearing in
6. 2021 Tasmanian state election

March 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 March 28

1. Continuing a litigation after case is dismissed with prejudice
2. Ethnic groups in Chinese history
3. Allegorical meaning of pony music videos
4. how do I report a factual error?
5. Converting 1906-1907 French frances to today's American dollars
6. Anthony Burgess and James, Tangiers 1963

March 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 March 29

1. What was called "corn" before the 15th century?
2. Why didn't parliament conduct a voice vote for RINL privatization?
3. "Stronger than a thousand armies is an idea whose time has come."

March 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 March 30

1. Israeli food testing laboratory

March 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 March 31

1. Eggshell skull
2. Celebrity love affairs in Pakistan
3. Unincorporated business
4. Looking for a religious term