Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/November 2020

= November 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 1


 * 1) Need help identifying Kim Aviance sources

= November 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 2


 * 1) Locating medieval Women's slave market in Istanbul, Turkey?
 * 2) Question about Trentino's voting in 1946
 * 3) Cases where a newly independent state was created from the territory of two or more countries simultaneously or almost simultaneously?
 * 4) What would you call this architectural style and is it bullshit?
 * 5) Isambard Kingdom Brunel in the United States

= November 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 3


 * 1) Is there a step-by-step process or a video on how to find sources on any topic?
 * 2) When did Albrecht Dürer paint his monkey?
 * 3) Cases of ancient territorial claims being successfully revived?
 * 4) presidential election

= November 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 4


 * 1) When does the 2020 United States Census count take effect to get reflected in the "new" United States congressional apportionment?
 * 2) Virginia Prince year of graduation

= November 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 5


 * 1) Countries other than the US where media outlets project the results of elections, even immediately after polls close
 * 2) Which are non Wikipedia sources on encyclopedic and compendium writing?
 * 3) 2020 USA Presidential election

= November 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 6


 * 1) 2020 US presidential election question
 * 2) Demographic change resulting in political changes in large territories?
 * 3) US again
 * 4) Prediction markets for US election?

= November 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 7


 * 1) Declaring the result in the states
 * 2) Verb question

= November 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 8


 * 1) US elections – "estimated votes reported"
 * 2) Why didn't Justice Blackmun join Justice Stevens's dissent in Bowers v. Hardwick?
 * 3) Disraeli - "That hellish Jew"
 * 4) Why have human electors at all?
 * 5) US order of precedence

= November 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 9


 * 1) Just how many people does a large US county with half a million total votes have actually counting the ballots after a particular election?
 * 2) Harris Biden
 * 3) US presidential transitional powers
 * 4) Cases where royal status was maintained for the longest number of generations after being descended from a king?

= November 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 10


 * 1) self-injected medicines
 * 2) The Menin Gate, and what others?
 * 3) Bush v. Gore
 * 4) NAIDOC Week
 * 5) Trump vs Biden
 * 6) January 20, 2021 . . . what if . ..
 * 7) Another question about recounting in Florida in 2000

= November 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 11


 * 1) What would have happened to a white/black person who would have openly expressed support for miscegenation in the Jim Crow South but without actually personally engaging in this practice?

= November 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 12


 * 1) Balance of power in US Senate for 2021
 * 2) Circassians: Italian and Russian language sources help request
 * 3) What publisher does 'Typis Caroli Georgi Univ. Typogr.' refer to?
 * 4) Who was "Colonel Sir Charles Waterhouse"?
 * 5) Electoral College in the 2020 elections

= November 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 13


 * 1) Significant demographic changes in Russia between 1897 and the start of World War I?
 * 2) Why Chips?
 * 3) The Great Migration and an increase in crime in Northern US cities?

= November 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 14


 * 1) Is the existence of Santa Claus disputed?

= November 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 15


 * 1) In what sense was the Second Mexican Empire an empire?
 * 2) Help deciphering an artwork on a shirt.
 * 3) Sadurmelickh, Who is this Tartar woman?
 * 4) Connotations of "Orient" and "oriental"
 * 5) Nancy Joe at Quiberon?
 * 6) Education

= November 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 17


 * 1) 5 year trial delay for train attack
 * 2) Media calling the US election results
 * 3) "The New Way" Series, Liberal pamphlets

= November 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 18


 * 1) What is "Virgo Garnru"?

= November 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 19


 * 1) Why did the US take over the Danish West Indies but not any other Caribbean islands other than Puerto Rico?
 * 2) Turkish language sources help request
 * 3) When was Matilda of Scotland regent?

= November 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 20


 * 1) When was Matilda of Flanders regent?
 * 2) Where was Jean Berain the Elder born?

= November 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 21


 * 1) New York results for 2020 US presidential election
 * 2) Engraving

= November 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 22


 * 1) Inserting a footnote onto Wikipedia

= November 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 23


 * 1) Is there any chance Trump could still win?
 * 2) Additional cases of an ethnic group converting en masse from Christianity to Islam over the last 1,000 years?
 * 3) Who painted this ceiling please?
 * 4) Christians of Jewish descent being murdered by the Nazis: Additional examples of this?
 * 5) District of Columbia presidential electors

= November 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 24


 * 1) What's the origin of this story please?
 * 2) Persian versions of ancient Greek names
 * 3) Why did the Soviet Union's other East Asian populations never become as large as the Soviet Union's Korean population did?

= November 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 25


 * 1) Have Eastern Orthodox Christians ever engaged in proselytization in large numbers?
 * 2) Prominent gender non-conforming politicians in Western republics before the last several decades?

= November 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 26


 * 1) Former thrones that already have or are soon likely to have a succession dispute?
 * 2) Variant flag of Belarus question
 * 3) And When You've Paid the Bill, You're None the Wiser

= November 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 27


 * 1) Is there any online community collaborating on plagiarism exposé?

= November 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 28


 * 1) Picture of a chess queen

= November 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 29


 * 1) Did the Soviet Union lay/press any claims on southern Sakhalin before 1945?
 * 2) What are the earliest sources that mention Saint Nicholas?
 * 3) Native Americans culture
 * 4) A group having a huge diaspora population in a particular place in spite of having no history of territorial control over this place?

= November 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 30


 * 1) Help with finding Articles of Countries
 * 2) Traitors in the Camp