Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/October 2016

= October 1 = 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 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 October 2


 * 1) Electric fans in old movies

= October 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 October 3


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

= October 4 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 October 9


 * 1) Two questions regarding John Thurloe
 * 2) Representative Men of Honolulu

= October 10 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 October 16


 * 1) Popish Plot
 * 2) North Korea.

= October 17 = 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 = 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 = 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 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 October 20


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

= October 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 October 21


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

= October 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 October 22


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

= October 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 October 23


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

= October 24 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 October 28


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

= October 29 = 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 = 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 = 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