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October 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 October 1

1. US Postal Service shipping routes
2. Amazing, but I just read that Julian Assange is still in the Ecuadorian embassy
3. Who is the guy saying "Don't touch me" in this ad?
4. Qoodrut - poet

October 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 October 2

1. Electric fans in old movies

October 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 October 3

1. St. Leon Bembo
2. Nixon in China libretto - Kissinger
3. Problematic nature of classification

October 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 October 4

1. Commutation of penal servitude in England in the 1850s
2. Timeline of the future assuming global warming doesn't happen
3. Nordic Model and Communism
4. Capital of Northern Cyprus
5. Congregationalist/Presbyterian/Calvinist
6. Global protection of elephants, EU block
7. Rowena E. Archer thesis
8. Kabul tombstone, William Hicks, 1666

October 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 October 5

1. Legality of using circumvention tools in the US
2. 1975 Australian constitutional crisis
3. Why do people like certain keys?

October 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 October 6

1. w.e.f.
2. Consent classes at university
3. What would happen if the nuclear football were destroyed and the president killed?

October 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 October 7

1. Caesars Entertainment Corporation earnings 2015
2. Why are there no Masses in the Roman Catholic Church in the USA for certain October 2016 dates?

October 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 October 8

1. Is "pussy" one of the words banned by the FCC?
2. Joblessness rate in 1933 compared to1936
3. Oscar Colin Morison and the First World War
4. Faculty (division) in non-Western countries
5. founding fathers and demagogues
6. What is the meaning of Saint Francis of Assisi standing on a globe on this picture?
7. Victorian literature

October 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 October 9

1. Two questions regarding John Thurloe
2. Representative Men of Honolulu

October 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 October 10

1. Prince Alfred's Visit to Hawaii in 1869
2. No year
3. When they say things like the average car in America was age 11.5 on 1/1/15?

October 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 October 11

1. List of dance moves
2. The competitors of the Gutenberg Bible: scribal bibles
3. Recommend a book for spiritual succour - meaning of life needed

October 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 October 12

1. Cholera in Haiti
2. Do we have an article covering a potential transition to a cashless society?
3. US representatives to the UN in Geneva

October 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 October 13

1. 8 million pound sterlin bond from the united kingdom in the 1920's.
2. Orders Franz Joseph, Isabella the Catholic, Rising Sun, Chrysanthemum
3. Why would a farmer move from Minnesota to Arizona?
4. Why Jamaica still retains the monarchy

October 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 October 14

1. Meaning of BYAWATHA
2. damnation in Judaism
3. Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize for Literature
4. Transit routes from West Berlin to West Germany
5. La Vandeana
6. Rationale for West Berlin

October 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 October 15

1. Hillary Clinton and the Merrick Garland supreme court nomination
2. Archibald Forbes decorations
3. What is the name of this kind of fallacy?
4. Joint dormitories for men and women in army
5. Virgin Mary Parades

October 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 October 16

1. Popish Plot
2. North Korea.

October 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 October 17

1. Malcolm Lowry eating Harriet Lane
2. Dark magic in kabalah
3. Why's Australia much less conservative than America?
4. Menzies Dickson

October 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 October 18

1. Why there is no article about Antisemitism or racism in Iran?
2. Name of the weapon
3. Parable or story referring to a red harness on a white horse, or something similar?
4. Climate in the Upper Midwest (USA), agriculture, arable lands, opportunities etc. around year 1900
5. Number of people killed at auschwitz
6. Unease due to lack of mountains
7. Joan of Arc was not French. Lenin was not Russian.
8. Looking for US election tv ads

October 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 October 19

1. French response to Hawaiian overthrow and annexation
2. First US State Dinner
3. End of money in the future
4. Multi-sided conflicts
5. The Great Northern Railway and The Northern Pacific Railway.
6. Rules of engagement for ship security crews in repelling boarding attempts by pirates

October 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 October 20

1. Fred W. Phelps (1929-2014)
2. Charles the First

October 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 October 21

1. Why didn't America "island hop" through Alaska and Russia instead?
2. Great Stink

October 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 October 22

1. Javert's suicide in Les Miserables, in the overall context of suicide

October 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 October 23

1. Doctor of Letters vs.Doctor of Humane Letters
2. High schools and elementary schools

October 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 October 24

1. Engraver identity
2. Which academy(ies) was Welser elected to?
3. Story behind censored Michael Vance videos
4. Why was Bill Clinton so successful in red states?
5. Entführung libretti

October 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 October 25

1. Credit Suisse Rebranding
2. U.S. / Canada border monument on I-95
3. Wall along Mexican border

October 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 October 26

1. Pantheism and Suicide.
2. funny cat
3. Is the concert harp an instrument blind people can master?
4. Prosecution of Governor's Spouse
5. party-list proportional representation voting system how
6. Earning Money for Dead People
7. Stream of consciousness
8. Kigeli V of Rwanda
9. Joe Saenz
10. Bob Dylan
11. Bhumibol Adulyadej
12. Do tipped employees' income have a round number-based business cycle superimposed on the general economic one?

October 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 October 27

1. Why has Spain ceded Gibraltar?
2. Catholic churches in Rome
3. Deals Gap
4. Date headers
5. What they carry?
6. Negative numbers and the use of brackets

October 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 October 28

1. Did the ancients understand a whoreson had one father?
2. Last lunatic asylum

October 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 October 29

1. SCOTUS vacancy
2. Is Grumpy Cat really the world's most valuable animal?
3. Children of unwed mothers in 1830s France
4. Prince, of Washington

October 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 October 30

1. coastline length for British counties and Canadian provinces and territories
2. Have constant length accounting/business/tax years existed? (or months or quarters)
3. Ammon Bundy's opinion on Dakota Access Pipeline protests

October 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 October 31

1. Multi-level political advertising in the US
2. What are/were some of the least power hungry absolute monarchs?
3. Civil servants
4. Dumb question: Who's in charge after a government falls but before the next prime minister?
5. Chinese immigration and other immigrants to the nations
6. Looking for 19th C. artist
7. Human population 2^33; when will this be true??
8. Classic lighthouse question
9. Archdeacon George Mason