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November 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 November 1

1. President of the Board of Health of the Kingdom of Hawaii
2. Surplus males and surplus females = population interchange

November 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 November 2

1. He Shi Bi
2. INEGI and Google cooperation
3. Slavery
4. How much of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR declared independence?
5. Voting question, United States
6. Is there any Asian thinker regarded as an Analytic philosopher? (please see two other related questions below)

November 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 November 3

1. Military medicine in ancient warfare?
2. How do primary schools get a fresh batch of kids every year?
3. Voting age for 1975 UK Referendum

November 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 November 4

1. Which US metro area's white people are the most diverse?
2. Self-determination in part of an occupied territory
3. Statement in the Vedas about people living a hundred years
4. North Korea and subsidies from China, Russia
5. Different meaning for Extended School Year
6. In the US, when do presidential candidates stop campaigning?
7. Does the 2002 version of the Uniform Parentage Act allow sperm donors to personally be the ones who inseminate women while giving up all of their parental rights and parental responsibilities afterwards?
8. "Bearable arms"
9. Muriel Perry OBE
10. Count Alexander Münster, Maresfield Park, ADC to the Kaiser

November 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 November 5

1. UCV buildings
2. Cannibalism or Starve
3. Straightened and Sharpened Bicycle Spokes as Weapons
4. Major nuclear accident during the fall of 1958?
5. Royal Marines Crest

November 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 November 6

1. Single-payer healthcare
2. Procedures for choosing a new nominee for presidential candidate post-convention
3. Thatcher's cause of death

November 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 November 7

1. Taghut and democracy
2. Can NASCAR drivers refuse a car with an ad against their political, moral or religious beliefs?
3. Identification of authors
4. Oscar Wilde's plays
5. Are banknotes "really" cheques
6. Colonels in American culture

November 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 November 8

1. Election lockdown
2. Mental Health in Jail
3. What were the purple states in '88 and '84?
4. Spirituality
5. Clinton and trump both getting less than 270
6. Synonym for rent-seeking
7. Nevada's "none of these candidates" option on the ballot - making it constitutional
8. Cost of fast food vs. retail prices of supermarket food
9. Who casts the electoral college votes of dead/ill/trapped in an elevator electors?
10. What happens if the POTUS or VPOTUS tiebreaker ties?
11. the european colonization

November 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 November 9

1. Is it possible to be many sexual orientations at once?
2. AUS v USA
3. What are the magazines featured in Businessweek Year ahead issue?
4. When was the last time there was single-party control of the U.S. federal government?
5. Reasons why trump won
6. U.S. states' control over their own voting systems
7. Secret Service protection for EX Presidents and their families
8. How can you tell if your WP account is on a watchlist ?
9. Sarah Bernhardt

November 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 November 10

1. two vases of flowers
2. What was the first country ?
3. Has someone who has never held public office been nominated president before?
4. Waiving one's right to Secret Service protection
5. T. F. Wilson, staff officer at Lucknow
6. Giving a reward for solving a murder - to the murderer himself! (or rather, his family)
7. maintaining (British?) Army standards while under siege
8. Do humans live in poverty if they just scavenge for discarded supplies like rodents?
9. Tristram Shandy
10. Will Trump, as president, have to disclose his financial situation, taxes paid and so on?

November 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 November 11

1. Election result with the Wyoming Rule
2. Hutchison family of Australia and Hawaii
3. Donald Trump in the Republican Party primaries
4. "Tumbling in Orbit"
5. NH and MI still not called?
6. Technical nitpicking.
7. US post election protests
8. US Election
9. Trump and Malay Singaporean studying in American university
10. Roe v. Wade and Obergefell
11. Eisenhower and Civil Rights

November 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 November 12

1. Tradition?

November 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 November 13

1. Except the 3-shilling what?
2. 2016 vs earlier election turnouts
3. 1895 NYT article

November 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 November 14

1. Another trump question
2. M109 in Canada
3. Seventh United States Army Structure During World War Two
4. Donald Trumps roots in american history
5. women in congressional and state races

November 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 November 15

1. US President not signing a bill without vetoing
2. If Trump gives up now?
3. Bath money and perfume money
4. Schengen-zone residence for non-citizens, as opposed to residence rights in one specific member state

November 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 November 16

1. Identifying a person from an historical picture

November 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 November 17

1. history
2. Gautama Budha
3. Was Joseph Stalin a driver?
4. First black actor without blackface
5. Trump's proposed immigration restrictions / bans on Muslims and the "free exercise" clause of the constitution
6. The President ought to be in hell and if only I had the power... I would put him there
7. Theodora 6th century: Some sources mention her as empress regnant with Justinian I as her co-regent.?
8. Was there a series of articles on pre-columbian wars?

November 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 November 18

1. 90s sunglasses
2. When did medieval Florence get control of a sea port?
3. How did the members of the U.S. Electoral College, who actually choose the president, come to be the last apolitical office holders in America?

November 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 November 19

1. Woops, can't pick up that Nobel. Pre-existing commentments.
2. Edward William Purvis
3. Medieval dinner
4. Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie
5. About one particular baby name
6. Chitterlings, yuk

November 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 November 20

1. States that require ultrasound before abortion
2. (Serious question, no trolling) Prostitutes as a economic index
3. Birth date
4. Long-term prospect of YouTube stardom
5. Navy recipes, 1946
6. Mare magnum siue

November 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 November 21

1. A part in the Bible
2. Flag of Ireland
3. Moscow at the End of the Line
4. Number of women in Germany raped

November 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 November 23

1. World map without country labels
2. Tax rates in Western Europe
3. Payment platform vs. payment gateway
4. "Fusionism" in France, 1871?

November 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 November 24

1. Why is nazi Germany considered right-wing
2. US federal cabinet nominees by president-elect
3. Democratic North Dakota primary result 2016 by county
4. Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars (African Issues)

November 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 November 25

1. What do you call this situation?
2. Elections in Israel: campaigning on Shabbat?
3. Much needs improving

November 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 November 26

1. Metal of a coin more valuable than the monetary value
2. Who decides the guest selection for the White House Correspondents' Dinner?

November 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 November 27

1. Government policy
2. "Arrangement" as a painting
3. How much is Newton's 1696 salary (£500-600) worth in today's US$?

November 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 November 28

1. Cixi and Guangwu
2. Mini pianos with 12 keys?
3. 2016 US House election data
4. Betrayal of Anne Frank

November 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 November 29

1. Defending abortion without defending infanticide
2. Indigenous Protestant clergymen of Polynesia
3. Moorish Revival landscaping
4. Mangareva and the Gambier Islands Annexation
5. How do we know about usage of ancient buildings?
6. 2016 Presidential Election
7. Belgium - Netherlands land swap

November 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 November 30

1. Successful assassination of Castro - what would it have accomplished?
2. Humiliation of Germany after ww1
3. Major academic journals