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November 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 1

1. History of voteing, I.E. New commers flooding in to effect the outcome.
2. Possible effects of castration
3. Co-Princess consort of Andorra
4. Bronze age axes
5. Richard Adams (Watership Down) bio inconsistency
6. German urban planner working in the US?
7. Copyright issue
8. Native American face paint / piercings

November 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 2

1. carol o'connor
2. Shooting yourself in the foot - US Senate seniority and pork
3. Stock Markets -- Quite Safe?
4. What was Duong Van Minh's religion?
5. The Vatican during World War II
6. Utility of Stock markets
7. riddle
8. Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
9. U.S. Bill of Rights
10. Poppy day
11. Appeal
12. electric guitar canon!
13. Model of the US government
14. Royal Saints

November 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 3

1. Roger Corman saying of himself that he's not an artist, but a businessman
2. ACTUAL poll results of the Delaware Senate race?
3. Canterbury Tales
4. Guitar technique question
5. Serving process on un-sue-able defendants
6. Out sourcing support services
7. Bonds: maturity and interest
8. What is an International petition?
9. NY Elections
10. What states allow voting on taxes?

November 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 4

1. US State declaring bankruptcy
2. Help in identifying found necklace for unknown deity (possibly Germanic in origin?)
3. North & South Indian migrants in Northeast India
4. A political science question on violence in some areas
5. Eugene O'Neill play with "Ape II" yacht and rowing crew race?
6. Male and female accents (?)
7. Thanksgiving more important than Christmas?
8. How did Russian billionaires get rich?
9. People's Republic Of China - no longer communist?
10. Identity of subjects in 19th century painting
11. Bio on Stephane Gauthier, a French Economist who received his PhD from MIT?
12. divorce rates with and without prenuptial agreements
13. is there a published account that Wikipedia *can't* work and will go down in flames?

November 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 5

1. cal/osha
2. Le Pont de l'Anglois
3. Westboro Baptist church
4. Coin or Fiddle (Antonín Dvořák)
5. why is an idea a deeply worthless thing?
6. Darn this infernal machine!
7. Old Testament believers
8. Fornication in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
9. Secret Police in Eastern Europe, after 89-91
10. Skinner v Freud
11. "Tell it in Gath" (Biblical reference)

November 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 6

1. Pope Paul VI's views on feminism

November 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 7

1. US law protecting the Swiss arms
2. Charles E. Whitmeyer
3. Identify this novel
4. Sourcing Nietzsche
5. in this PDF what was the "December 25th incident"?
6. Alternate history
7. Quote from Rabbi Joseph H. Hertz
8. what is fat people's psychology?
9. "Experimental" suicide
10. kjv paraphrase?
11. Montreal Airport Bus
12. American south

November 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 8

1. Gender stereotypes in toys
2. persian in south asian languages
3. New york accent
4. other explanations
5. When seagulls follow the trawler

November 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 9

1. Skinner
2. Oldowan tools experiment
3. Word for three joint rulers
4. Nabokov on Dostoyevsky
5. Early literary examples of time travel
6. Ernest Coffin - English illustrator
7. Native American tactics

November 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 10

1. Why is Scandinavia so liberal?
2. L'internationale
3. Titans v. Olympians
4. Who is "sworn auditor"?
5. Children's City Maps in Canada
6. Pronunciation of Norman surname
7. Homosexual panic
8. Is it rape?
9. Woodrow Wilson Quote
10. approximate ticket cost form Paris to Brussels or vice versa?
11. Book about an Italian Priest
12. Childhood novels

November 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 11

1. Burial at Church of the Holy Apostles
2. Philip Glass
3. Prez/PM
4. Secret Ballot of Hobbyist Society in UK
5. Millions paid for art
6. Medal?
7. Religious conversions in Northern Ireland
8. Armistice Day
9. Racial homogeneity and liberality?

November 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 12

1. visa question for short story
2. East york and york
3. Scandinavian flags
4. successful therapy per Freud
5. Health Insurance Premiums
6. Is child prostitution really being ignored in the U.S.?
7. Treason in medieval England
8. Is the English flag a Nordic Cross flag?
9. Did Isidore Gluckstein enclose a park?
10. The missing Louis
11. What is the history behind Christmas programs?
12. Mosque
13. separtion of family
14. United States Balance of trade

November 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 13

1. US Libel Laws and the Truth
2. Who introduced the horse in India?
3. Jackson / Rosas
4. difference between a king and a bully
5. Cats and mirrors
6. Askers and guessers
7. Economic growth, least unemployment, and inflation in the 20th. century
8. What type of marketing is this?
9. US federal law based on changing facts
10. Poltava

November 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 14

1. Stieg Larsson's Millenium trilogy
2. What caused the Netherlands to become so liberal?
3. Revolutions and Demagogues
4. Wealthiest Nations in History
5. Looking for a quote by a medieval
6. Dahrendorf's work on law schools' students
7. Is it legal to publicly carry a spear in Oregon?
8. "Mad Men" and smoking

November 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 15

1. UK Candidate Selection Process
2. Alleged offender, accused, indicted accused, defendent, etc
3. Invasions
4. Literary characters like Uriah Heep
5. Sex lives of the mentally disabled
6. 4th amendment and the TSA
7. How do homeless people die?
8. Marine accident?
9. National Debt
10. Catholic Eucharist for unbaptized ones
11. antisemitic?
12. if you're arrested by the sergeant-at-arms for avoiding call of the house, does it go on your criminal record?

November 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 16

1. Czechoslovakian party organization
2. Ancient demolition
3. Nation Names
4. Death penalty
5. What's the best country to live in?
6. Prince William & Kate Middleton
7. Russian living in Thailand tried by an American court?
8. Short story by Hemingway(?)

November 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 17

1. Eleonor of Mendoza
2. Second-Hand Society
3. Freeport Doctrine article
4. Surviving Nazi architecture
5. Geese and moving on
6. question on public domain works
7. Medal of Liberty
8. Working hours of US president

November 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 18

1. Sin Tax on Goods of Inelastic Demand
2. Footwear for speedsters
3. Dinamo Zagreb
4. Retail Merchandise Performance Hedging
5. Antisemitism and Israel
6. Links? We don't need no stinkin' links!
7. Lions Clubs
8. Learnt depression
9. Stock split and derivatives
10. Identification of painting
11. Do the US Marines really kick recruits out of basic training at the drop of a hat?

November 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 19

1. Why a special interest in bacon around January 30, 2009?
2. Getting out of the military via wetting yourself?
3. When did the 1960s really begin?
4. Albanians pro-American
5. Capital of the Kingdom of Dalmatia
6. Children of Mary the mother of jesus
7. Are we still capitalists?
8. Baseless accusations Allegations against Julian Assange
9. Bess, you is my Woman now
10. On Royal Titles

November 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 20

1. Mystery Medal
2. Atheist's Golden Rule
3. hi
4. First English child in The New World
5. say you have an eye for real estate and renovation... and $10k
6. Swiss military

November 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 21

1. Elective Monarchy to Hereditary Monarchy
2. Do most people admire their boyfriend/girlfriend?
3. European Union legislation: How much is codecision, how much is consultation?
4. Classic autobiographies
5. In Christian Theology, why do we have hiccups?
6. Heresy trials in Scandinavia

November 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 22

1. European anti-hate laws
2. Time line of Robert Graves life
3. Stronger economy = stronger army?
4. something humanity related
5. Most popular U.S. president worldwide
6. Measures in lieu of criminal prosecutions
7. Travelling from France to England in 14th century
8. Helping yourself
9. What is the point of huge discounts on big-ticket items?
10. Atheist rules
11. facebook
12. Is there an optimum theoretical level of income inequality?

November 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 23

1. Quotation question
2. Extreme penalty for collaboration?
3. do Filipinos worship chicken bones?
4. What do you call this life stance?
5. "We will wear Bally's"
6. What's a runekjevle?

November 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 24

1. Complacency and South Korea
2. Communication between America and England in the 18th century
3. Lee Harvey Oswald's guilt
4. Problems with Optimum Currency Area: Models and differing GDP exposure
5. The surname Griffin
6. International debts
7. where can I change the source
8. Saxe-Coburg-Kohary and Bragança Line
9. OECD tax haven treaty
10. History of the colonial history of Nigeria
11. Lenin

November 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 25

1. Musing about nonconsecutive terms
2. would someone take being cheated on any better if the person their spouse cheated with was ALSO married?
3. Korea - UK's obligations?
4. Longest gap in service
5. If you suffer from dislexy
6. Thanksgiving
7. I just saw The Matrix!
8. British Monarchy
9. Chinese

November 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 26

1. Are gov. bonds traded through the stock exchange?
2. James Cook R.N.
3. Architectural History
4. Question for sword makers
5. how well do celebrities with new names or stage names wall off the same?

November 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 27

1. Katyn
2. Which queen is Elizabeth II?
3. Royal Surnames
4. Most sexually conservative Europeans
5. Selves that argue within oneself - illusion or not?
6. God Bless Anguilla
7. Credit cards
8. In Judaism, were Adam and Eve Jewish?
9. World Leaders
10. Did the earliest Carved Stone Balls have knobs on?
11. Christian Art history, Protestant Reformation

November 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 28

1. why do latin americans like spain so much?
2. Identity according to Palahniuk (Fight Club)
3. Hearing the Virgin Mary
4. Is the Queen Greek?
5. Hans Christian Andersen
6. UK Law
7. History
8. when does the trololo guy say "trololo"?
9. King of England
10. Queen of England
11. Muslim marriage
12. Sartre wanted prize money anyway?
13. WikiLeaks
14. Any Human Heart vs. Earthly Powers

November 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 29

1. website to calculate inflation adjustment
2. Saving the Euro
3. Argentine peso
4. Ten Commandments <=> Book of the Dead
5. Vatican and democracy
6. Broad/flattering self-definition
7. First mentions in fiction

November 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 30

1. Cables about Chinese diplomats
2. Conservative vs. Liberal states of United States of America
3. 'Incoming!' 'To arms!' and other such cries
4. Can someone find a better reference?
5. China blockade
6. Government Grants
7. Regent Princess Isabel and the scandal of the ball
8. Powerful industries suppress health advice in the US?
9. Calgary and Toronto mayors vs. U.S. cities mayors
10. India conservative liberal
11. Sales Tax