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October 1

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  1. Oak leaves as a sign that you are looking for work?
  2. bond yields
  3. Did Charles Evans Hughes ever write any books?
  4. Achievement gap for students with physical disabilities
  5. Never put the defendant on the stand

October 2

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  1. Vindabona
  2. Sweden and lingonberry juice
  3. Barack Obama

October 4

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  1. Craig Cailloc
  2. Question about US state legislatures and the 1787 Constitutional Convention

October 5

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  1. Why didn't adherents of Eastern Orthodoxy aim to convert huge numbers of new people like Catholics and Protestants did?

October 6

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  1. Pensions in Ireland and Poland
  2. If Trump gets impeached . . .

October 7

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  1. Were these photographers employed by the National Park Service?
  2. Mind set

October 9

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  1. Climate Change
  2. Vienna Philharmonic oboeist

October 10

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  1. Turkey / Syria
  2. Hong Kong and Macau under PRC

October 11

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  1. The illusion about a young lady and an old lady

October 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 October 12

  1. The famous opera singer Sibyl Knight
  2. When did the Arabic language come to Iraq and started to be spoken as the main language?
  3. When did Paris first get electric lights?
  4. Julian (emperor) reference problem (done)

October 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 October 13

  1. Assassination of Jiaqing Emperor
  2. Difference between job and occupation?
  3. Ancient astronaut view on afterlife?
  4. Opposite of misophonia

October 14

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  1. Sources on the collapse of the European Union
  2. What happened between 540 and 565 CE?
  3. Modern philosopher

October 15

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  1. Japanese salsa band Orquesta de la Luz: Good example of cultural appropriation or not?
  2. Bering Strait
  3. Signatories of Stuttgart Declaration of Guilt

October 16

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  1. Tripitaka Koreana during Japanese occupation
  2. The Canon
  3. negative interest rate

October 17

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  1. Ministry of the Environment, Conservation, and Parks
  2. British colonies that became independent through war victory
  3. Opioid crisis and the aftermath

October 18

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  1. Access to the Hindu

October 19

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  1. Catherine the Great in Nazi propaganda
  2. Queen Victoria, possibly of a second marriage

October 20

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  1. Members of deposed royal houses having illegitimate children?
  2. Name for Southern Half of the Italian Peninsula?
  3. Reference help for Katherine Mansfield’s Millie (short story)?
  4. Who created this painting

October 21

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  1. Exhumation of Pope John Paul II for beatification, but not for canonization
  2. Question about impeachment
  3. Wolfsberg Castle

October 22

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  1. Please help identify this potential korean buddhist statue
  2. Bengt Feldreich
  3. USA and war
  4. Sable, the human skeleton?

October 23

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  1. USA - Republicans and unemployment.
  2. "Wrong" Josef Mengele?
  3. "Covenant of Governance"

October 25

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  1. Second Terms
  2. EU Established
  3. Cities in Manchukuo

October 26

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  1. The Scythians

October 28

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  1. Cypriot deposit haircut
  2. Aesthetics
  3. Looking for a restraint device designed to hold the captives in the Crusades time
  4. Count Dracula

October 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 October 29

  1. Short story composed of vanity plates text
  2. USA banks question.
  3. Has a ship ever made tactical blunder(s) cause they didn't know steamships were invented?

October 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 October 30

  1. Semicartograms
  2. UK general elections
  3. Is there any precedent for London seceding from the UK?
  4. Invasion of Switzerland
  5. Giant squid quote

October 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 October 31

  1. Sarmentitii
  2. 1945 UK General Election
  3. Ticker tape transmitter wanted