Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/October 2019

= October 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 October 1


 * 1) Oak leaves as a sign that you are looking for work?
 * 2) bond yields
 * 3) Did Charles Evans Hughes ever write any books?
 * 4) Achievement gap for students with physical disabilities
 * 5) Never put the defendant on the stand

= October 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 October 2


 * 1) Vindabona
 * 2) Sweden and lingonberry juice
 * 3) Barack Obama

= October 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 October 4


 * 1) Craig Cailloc
 * 2) Question about US state legislatures and the 1787 Constitutional Convention

= October 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 October 5


 * 1) Why didn't adherents of Eastern Orthodoxy aim to convert huge numbers of new people like Catholics and Protestants did?

= October 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 October 6


 * 1) Pensions in Ireland and Poland
 * 2) If Trump gets impeached . ..

= October 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 October 7


 * 1) Were these photographers employed by the National Park Service?
 * 2) Mind set

= October 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 October 9


 * 1) Climate Change
 * 2) Vienna Philharmonic oboeist

= October 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 October 10


 * 1) Turkey / Syria
 * 2) Hong Kong and Macau under PRC

= October 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 October 11


 * 1) The illusion about a young lady and an old lady

= October 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 October 12


 * 1) The famous opera singer Sibyl Knight
 * 2) When did the Arabic language come to Iraq and started to be spoken as the main language?
 * 3) When did Paris first get electric lights?
 * 4) Julian (emperor) reference problem (done)

= October 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 October 13


 * 1) Assassination of Jiaqing Emperor
 * 2) Difference between job and occupation?
 * 3) Ancient astronaut view on afterlife?
 * 4) Opposite of misophonia

= October 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 October 14


 * 1) Sources on the collapse of the European Union
 * 2) What happened between 540 and 565 CE?
 * 3) Modern philosopher

= October 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 October 15


 * 1) Japanese salsa band Orquesta de la Luz: Good example of cultural appropriation or not?
 * 2) Bering Strait
 * 3) Signatories of Stuttgart Declaration of Guilt

= October 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 October 16


 * 1) Tripitaka Koreana during Japanese occupation
 * 2) The Canon
 * 3) negative interest rate

= October 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 October 17


 * 1) Ministry of the Environment, Conservation, and Parks
 * 2) British colonies that became independent through war victory
 * 3) Opioid crisis and the aftermath

= October 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 October 18


 * 1) Access to the Hindu

= October 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 October 19


 * 1) Catherine the Great in Nazi propaganda
 * 2) Queen Victoria, possibly of a second marriage

= October 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 October 20


 * 1) Members of deposed royal houses having illegitimate children?
 * 2) Name for Southern Half of the Italian Peninsula?
 * 3) Reference help for Katherine Mansfield’s Millie (short story)?
 * 4) Who created this painting

= October 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 October 21


 * 1) Exhumation of Pope John Paul II for beatification, but not for canonization
 * 2) Question about impeachment
 * 3) Wolfsberg Castle

= October 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 October 22


 * 1) Please help identify this potential korean buddhist statue
 * 2) Bengt Feldreich
 * 3) USA and war
 * 4) Sable, the human skeleton?

= October 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 October 23


 * 1) USA - Republicans and unemployment.
 * 2) "Wrong" Josef Mengele?
 * 3) "Covenant of Governance"

= October 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 October 25


 * 1) Second Terms
 * 2) EU Established
 * 3) Cities in Manchukuo

= October 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 October 26


 * 1) The Scythians

= October 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 October 28


 * 1) Cypriot deposit haircut
 * 2) Aesthetics
 * 3) Looking for a restraint device designed to hold the captives in the Crusades time
 * 4) Count Dracula

= October 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 October 29


 * 1) Short story composed of vanity plates text
 * 2) USA banks question.
 * 3) Has a ship ever made tactical blunder(s) cause they didn't know steamships were invented?

= October 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 October 30


 * 1) Semicartograms
 * 2) UK general elections
 * 3) Is there any precedent for London seceding from the UK?
 * 4) Invasion of Switzerland
 * 5) Giant squid quote

= October 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 October 31


 * 1) Sarmentitii
 * 2) 1945 UK General Election
 * 3) Ticker tape transmitter wanted