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October 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 October 1

1. historians similar to Niall Ferguson
2. Belfast
3. Conscription in the United States
4. Which has less IRA-likeness, Scotland or Wales?
5. "Milk must be pure to drink No Tests"

October 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 October 2

1. How does the United States withstand droughts?
2. Programme partners and delivery partners in major capital projects
3. Pied-Noir

October 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 October 3

1. What's the longest scheduled cargo ship round trip in the world?
2. Guns
3. Has China become less authoritarian?

October 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 October 4

1. Balloon boy hoax influenced by Pixar?
2. Refrain singing
3. "One son" from Hindu families brought up as a Sikh
4. Nontrinitarian churches that practice infant baptism

October 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 October 5

1. Kuusamo
2. Backwards hand salute?
3. Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day?

October 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 October 6

1. Babies
2. Death of the Roman Republic
3. In a failure to deliver, is there insurance for the long position holder analogous to a credit default swap?
4. How to know which are the fake news?

October 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 October 7

1. Fallout from a nuclear bomb landing on Pyongyang
2. Public sector vs private sector
3. Discharged soldiers and yet-to-be-prosecuted military crimes

October 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 October 8

1. The torpedo that crippled the Bismarck, from port or starboard?

October 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 October 9

1. Switzerland = Oligarchy?
2. Why are there so many countries now than in the past?
3. Has a city or town ever turned off it's lights for tourist or cultural reasons?
4. G. K. Chesterton story

October 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 October 10

1. feminist art
2. Intellectual property vs producing the same effect as other people's work

October 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 October 11

1. Is this a colony?
2. What is the wall at the American-Mexican border made of, and how long is it?
3. Loyalists v. republicans in Belfast

October 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 October 13

1. What was the penalty for murder and manslaughter in Austria-Hungary and the German Empire?
2. Are there records like clay tablets, papyrus, or parchment or stuff from historians like Herodotus or Josephus etc, that suggest or say that Atenists fled Egypt due to persecution after the death of Akhenaton and tried to keep their religion elsewhere?
3. First Lord of the Treasury

October 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 October 14

1. IRGC
2. Test TV Tubes Here Free! at the 7-Eleven (Hooray!)
3. Competency based interviews
4. California Public School ADA % Rate

October 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 October 15

1. Is there a link between communication style and profession/industry?

October 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 October 16

1. 1960s-ish experiment regarding the effects of alcohol on driving
2. Need help finding an article
3. Why is Judas Iscariot such a reviled figure if the canonical gospels state that Jesus was aware of his plans?
4. Cashiering
5. Was Ceres-Demeter depicted bare breasted in antiquity?
6. State recognition and travel docs

October 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 October 17

1. Does Dubai have more Sunnis or Shias?
2. How do researchers get participants to tell the truth [about academic misconduct, political convictions, sexual histories]?

October 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 October 18

1. Legal error in "The Chamber"
2. American retirement system
3. what was the total amount of people in the WORLD who died by gun in 2016?
4. Janissary weaponry
5. Do some people in Indonesia eat pork?

October 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 October 19

1. New York legal citation
2. Where to write on "Forced circumcision of children"?
3. How many polling stations are there in Venezuela?

October 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 October 20

1. Black Death in England

October 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 October 21

1. opera Cinderella

October 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 October 22

1. Why are dirt-poor white guys considered "privileged", and what can we do about it?
2. Trying to identify classic short story about thugs deceiving a person by hanging him from cliff blind folded but like only like 2 feet from the ground
3. Using genetics tests to determine ancestry/ethnicity/heritage
4. settlers moving West
5. Free movement of citizens
6. US universities

October 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 October 23

1. What did the Kaiser mean by "Nauticus"?
2. Swan River -> Western Australia

October 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 October 24

1. Compensation

October 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 October 25

1. Question About GDP, Net Domestic Product, National Income Etc.?
2. Why am I here?
3. Roe v. Wade

October 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 October 26

1. Has a newspaper ever come chiseled on a stone tablet? (real use, not a stunt)
2. cameras behind images
3. When did tan women become more fashionable than non-tan women?
4. Whore of Babylon

October 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 October 27

1. Young boys in shorts
2. Witness retaliation
3. Ondes Martenot pitches
4. Edgar Guest info needed

October 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 October 28

1. Declaration of Independence of Catalonia

October 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 October 29

1. Firmament

October 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 October 30

1. Ballad of an Intellectual

October 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 October 31

1. Circencester