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November 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 1

1. Aftermath of the Great Society
2. sponge brain
3. assignment
4. Legality of castration in the UK
5. Nirvana
6. Condensed Readers Digest
7. Are there any negative connotations to "respecting elders"?
8. Dwight D. Eisenhower and African Americans
9. Euphemia of Pomerania and Christopher II of Denmark

November 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 2

1. Are there any atheists that loves religion
2. The Queen and security clearance
3. Complexity of creation and creator
4. Plato's politics
5. the longest walk in Keds
6. Identification in Simultaenous Equation Models

November 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 3

1. Regions of Population Growth/Decline in France
2. summary of the world political situation, snowden revelations

November 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 4

1. Importance of F-117A shootdown? Greatest victory in the history of warfare?
2. Why doesn't the Army fake Taliban chatter?
3. search for the meaning of life
4. Survivors of the Holocaust
5. Arthur C. Clarke
6. Case citation help needed

November 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 5

1. Restoration of the Monarchy after the English Civil War
2. This continues to bother me.
3. Does the Korean War which started on 25 June 1950 continue thru this day?
4. "Eleventh hour" armistice
5. Okay this time for real
6. Novel ridiculing a character convinced of his self-importance
7. Joesph McCarthy HUAC hearings
8. Why no special elections for US executives (president, governor...)

November 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 6

1. Someone in ancient times predicting cars & airplanes.
2. Old Shoreham
3. centuries
4. What is the origin of represent getting an idea by a light bulb?
5. unusual spy stories?

November 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 7

1. Arguments from authority
2. African Americans dressing up for church
3. Napoleon French Language
4. "Essential Health Benefits" in Obamacare
5. Looking for information on hosting e-archives in the cloud.

November 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 8

1. Deities
2. Legislative vetoes in the USA
3. Different exchange rates
4. The smartest entity ever, with the exception of Spike Jones (or Peter Cook) eating alone.
5. How did lawyers earn a bad stereotype of being immoral and being liars?
6. Contemporary War Titles

November 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 9

1. Do some primitive diet people really try to acclimate to rotten meat?
2. Looking for someone to verify the contents of an article
3. website problem
4. Is the Constitution of Brunei the Basic law of Brunei?
5. Did the value of Iranian dinar coins grow tenfold in 1932?

November 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 10

1. Alternatives to the capitalism-socialism scale in political theory
2. Rulers which conquered the most
3. High Anglican use of the Ave Maria
4. Questions about World War 2: How old were some of the youngest cadets in Canada in the war at the time

November 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 11

1. Indirect consequentialism and general human irrationality
2. Divorce in Ireland
3. Man who battled the sea

November 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 12

1. help me identify this (traditional?) melody.
2. Does anyone have any idea what Akrit Jaswal does now?
3. emily warren paintings
4. Fatimah
5. Suicide of Amanda Todd
6. What does Muslim proselytism look like?
7. Do well-educated American Black people lose their African American Vernacular Accent?
8. Black towns and cities in North Africa
9. Crossing the Bering Strait

November 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 13

1. Volcanism
2. Good book on the development of the canon
3. Anglican Latin and Byzantine Church Bazaars
4. 6¼¢ in 1815
5. Do Roman Catholics have a higher tendency to engage in social justice than other types of Christians?
6. Sir Sandford Fleming (surveyer) & Ian Fleming (James Bond & British Intelligence Officer)
7. Can a non-Black person who is adopted into a Black family at a young age be considered part of the "African American" culture and thus ethnically "African American"?
8. Are churches racially segregated?

November 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 14

1. Orthodox Jewish women wearing sandals
2. Yugoslav leader/politician actually offering independence to Slovenes and Croats in 1920s?
3. Translations of the Missale Romanum

November 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 15

1. Speaking in the House of Lords
2. Speaker of the House - power over introducing bills
3. Telephone manners
4. Second most painted person in history
5. International trade in the 17th century

November 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 16

1. Who is an "officer" of a corporation? Is there a formal definition?
2. Commonwealth and the United States
3. Scientific research on the formation of correct theories that had too little information
4. "Satan" (1829) - painting by John Partridge, English artist

November 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 17

1. totila's siege of rome
2. Is Islamism typically considered right-wing...
3. equal temperament math question.

November 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 18

1. Islamic scholars giving lectures in French
2. James Le Jeune date of death etc.
3. Neolithic revolution vs Industrial Revolution...Which demographic explosions for a given territory?
4. Private property a new phenomenon
5. Is it possible to be a theologically liberal Fundamentalist Christian?
6. Where are the real ten commandments?

November 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 19

1. Medical "norms" and the thought of inhering natural rights advocates?
2. Are Stephen Schwarzschild and Henry Schwarzschild brothers?
3. Summer vacation of US Congress
4. Saudi Arabia
5. Philosophy
6. PD-USGov satellite images
7. The Boundary Between Judaism and Christianity

November 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 20

1. Historical Statistics of/for Various Large Countries
2. Prehistoric Europe article
3. corruption of boardmembers in a non-profit organization-SPCA
4. Name for a human position
5. Obamacare and job loss

November 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 21

1. Handgun handle angle
2. logistically, what difficulties would moving Israel entail?
3. Verified cases of passenger landing commercial jet
4. Is there a Sir Quiller-Couch character in J.M. Barrie's book Peter and Wendy ?
5. The official list of most interesting things
6. Important figures buried in present-day Israel
7. Which Pope worshipped Satan?

November 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 22

1. Products "shipped" vs "sold"
2. What if the King dies before the heir apparent is born?
3. Does this economic data on "Arabs" involve Chaldeans?
4. Charles Martel of Anjou

November 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 23

1. Former sovereign citizens
2. Sunni Muslims into Shi'a Muslims
3. Missing in article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_College,_Colombo

November 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 24

1. German Invasion musical themes
2. Importing an article to be used as a basis for a television series

November 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 25

1. Countries With (Attempted) Large-Scale Territorial Expansion/Enlargement Since 1800
2. Sharecropping
3. Presidents/statesmen featured on US dollar bills
4. Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
5. "Against God's will"
6. Final scene / climax in Hamlet
7. What Iran sanctions are these?
8. Geneva interim agreement on Iranian nuclear program

November 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 26

1. Presidential laws
2. Ambassador Berlusconi
3. General citing style used in the hard sciences
4. Maldives Greater India

November 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 27

1. Ottoman invasion of Italy
2. Jain encyclopedia
3. Unknown Concept/Philosophy
4. Algerian cuisine other influence

November 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 28

1. Leased Vehicles crossing US border
2. Recruitment during war and peace
3. the lynx
4. When will an article of "The Economist" become a public domain piece?
5. Emperor Franz Joseph I's Cause of Death

November 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 29

1. Scholarly article on religion and horror vacui?
2. Missing U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) Census Records for 1917/1920
3. Alchitrof, Emperor of Ethiopia
4. Security camera - what does the law say?

November 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 30

1. Is the Chinese government trying to increase the death rate of its own people to cope with overpopulation?
2. Professional domination services in Sweden