Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/November 2015

= November 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 1


 * 1) Trick-or-treat: what if you don't give any candy?
 * 2) American Samoa website
 * 3) US$ in Canada
 * 4) Federalism, Canada and USA
 * 5) Gerald, an Old Etonian in China in the '30s
 * 6) How does the Federalist system in the US distribute power among states?

= November 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 2


 * 1) Loose railroad track
 * 2) Rhyme/reason for US health insurance distinctions
 * 3) Who is that woman that is being mentioned by Sam Harris here?

= November 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 3


 * 1) Der Sturmer & Der Giftpilz
 * 2) The "Old Boundary Pine Tree" and the border of Massachusetts and New Hampshire
 * 3) Major/minor key cultural universal?

= November 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 4


 * 1) Who is more Protestant in Switzerland, the French or Germans?
 * 2) Tracking down an Australian entity
 * 3) Syrian civil war isolated strongholds
 * 4) Syrian refugees

= November 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 5


 * 1) Relationship between Porsche and Volkswagen
 * 2) Finance/Accounting Software:
 * 3) First usage of 'white' and 'black' for skin colour?
 * 4) Partisan Warfare and Wehrmacht Atrocities on the Eastern Front of World War II
 * 5) Looking for an old sci fi book

= November 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 6


 * 1) Baby orcs?
 * 2) Buying books by width
 * 3) The '48
 * 4) Did Widow Conservation exist in Switzerland and the Netherlands?
 * 5) Did Tolkien ever write a story, poem, or anything else from an orc's point of view?
 * 6) The taxis in Benoît Brisefer

= November 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 7


 * 1) Laggard as a free rider
 * 2) To whom does a United States senator tender his resignation?

= November 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 8


 * 1) File:A box (reliquary) of the bones (relics) of Alfonso the Battler.PNG
 * 2) Photographer biographical query : :File:A-J-Jaeger.jpg
 * 3) Did Widow conservation exist in England and Scotland?
 * 4) File:DiodotusCoinFront.jpg

= November 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 9


 * 1) Photo-dating: :File:Jozef Haller.jpg
 * 2) U.S. senators who have resigned
 * 3) Christianity, the old testament, and prohibitions on homosexuality post st peter
 * 4) Reasons for/against rule of the shorter term

= November 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 10


 * 1) Which king?
 * 2) Identifcation query on :File:Marshall Kiev 2014.JPG
 * 3) Sovereign nations whose subnational units have their own constitutions
 * 4) Who is the signature "A.C.J." in the Jewish Quarterly

= November 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 11


 * 1) the superstitions/beliefs of people who used bamboo as a construction material
 * 2) When was the District of Columbia named?
 * 3) Paul Grignon: English and French language versions of his DVD "Money as debt"
 * 4) Foreign historians of the Western world

= November 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 12


 * 1) The snowman, the myth, the legend
 * 2) Sinking of SS Ancona, 8 November 1915
 * 3) When was Wyoming Territory made?
 * 4) Technology and unemployment

= November 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 13


 * 1) Dali's Mustache (St. Petersburg): Which artist?
 * 2) Historical Silver Polishing method
 * 3) Julian calendar in Wikipedia article

= November 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 14


 * 1) Student protest chants: history
 * 2) Why is Election Day in the USA scheduled for the Tuesday right after the first Monday in November?
 * 3) What is "E-cash"? Is there a defined meaning?
 * 4) Red Cross volunteers

= November 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 15


 * 1) Introducing Prime Minister's Questions to Canada
 * 2) Birthdate of Nicolae Ceauşescu - which calendar?
 * 3) Horsemill. Would the animal work on its own, or would it always be led by a person?

= November 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 16


 * 1) How many Muslim women marry Jewish men in Israel? (Plus some more questions)
 * 2) Free-range terrorists
 * 3) First time that a French president addressed a joint session of Parliament since 1948?
 * 4) SS Kresge picture

= November 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 17


 * 1) Terrorist attacks in Paris, France
 * 2) B&B, an anachronism?
 * 3) Dancing Israelis
 * 4) Unamerican Activities Committee transcripts
 * 5) information regarding mandatory life class modelling in british art schools until 1960s.
 * 6) KFC then and now

= November 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 18


 * 1) Derivatives tracking stocks to enjoy lower tax rate
 * 2) Religious observance
 * 3) how can singaporean studying or holidaying in western country, protect from racist hate crime?
 * 4) Comedians of the past who turned into prominent politicians
 * 5) First names of Asian-Americans
 * 6) Same sex marriage & abortion

= November 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 19


 * 1) Lolita quote?
 * 2) Unidentified artist "Watson"
 * 3) Social democracy vs social liberalism
 * 4) Final fate of the Orlik armoured train

= November 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 20


 * 1) How are members of Congress expected to vote?
 * 2) Creation
 * 3) BVI Legal Profession Act 2015
 * 4) Early 20th century nature illustrator Lang

= November 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 21


 * 1) Why the Key of A?
 * 2) Bible translation that is gender neutral re God
 * 3) Economics
 * 4) Class/hierarchy in England

= November 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 22


 * 1) Stolen goods in the retail industry
 * 2) Age of majority vs. voting age
 * 3) Getting data on number of U.S. troops stationed at military bases in the Continental U.S.
 * 4) Ammon
 * 5) How could the price of oil fall more than 50% that fast?
 * 6) French Resistance, Nobel laureates, and cricket

= November 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 23


 * 1) UK handicapped symbols
 * 2) Need help tracking down a Thomas Jefferson quote
 * 3) Opinion pieces as news in The Daily Telegraph
 * 4) Are Jihad and Islamic State the same thing?
 * 5) Getting to know women in niqab
 * 6) Term for when characters invent dialogue

= November 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 24


 * 1) Popular contemporary political philosophers
 * 2) Tools used to create Ancient Roman inscriptions
 * 3) What's the point of "bringing back" extinct species?

= November 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 25


 * 1) Republic of Texas: Date problem
 * 2) Details handling software
 * 3) Arts: Help needed
 * 4) George Sand's Orlando
 * 5) Painting reminds me of another

= November 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 26


 * 1) Do the world think about the German understanding what the internet is?
 * 2) How long did Corbyn get to work on his letter?

= November 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 27


 * 1) How does one contribute to a charity in someone else's name?
 * 2) Economic logic behind timing of discounts
 * 3) How can Singaporeans studying in Western countries protect themselves from crime and racism?
 * 4) Rosamond by Mary J Holmes
 * 5) Political font
 * 6) What kind of Atheist am I?
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= November 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 28


 * 1) Manhattan highrise mixed zoning?
 * 2) WWII Germans wearing enemy uniforms
 * 3) Use of military infoboxes
 * 4) Peglike objects from the Old Kingdom
 * 5) What American states allow abortions to be performed in hospitals?

= November 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 29


 * 1) Correlation between sex and and childbirth
 * 2) Do me a Faber
 * 3) Picture of David Jewett Waller, Sr.

= November 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 30


 * 1) Some questions on WWII
 * 2) Boston Fish Pier, Boston Fish Wharf
 * 3) Metropolitan France
 * 4) Last formal declaration of war