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October 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 October 1

1. Colors of Women's Suffrage
2. 2016 United States presidential election
3. White-blue-red tricolor
4. The surname of the Belgian royal family is once more Saxe-Coburg and Gotha?
5. Pennant flown by USS President in this image

October 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 October 2

1. The queen is dead, long live the king
2. Gender segregation of the Imperial Court

October 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 October 3

1. Seafood pizza in Southern California?
2. Electric painting

October 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 October 4

1. M-class fireworks
2. VP as acting POTUS
3. Coffin story

October 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 October 5

1. Operation Storm?
2. United States Election - A Split Electoral College
3. Healy on Carson - "although a Unionist, he was never un-Irish"
4. Sex and the City - "stick insect"
5. Moving statue in Georgia

October 6

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1. Question about an amendment that strips the US Senate of all of its powers
2. British ladies named Feodorowna
3. (Law, Journalism) Journals' liability in publishing "lies" on Trump
4. Herbert Macaulay - moved from Science Desk
5. Why health related taxes aren't 0% if people need to be alive to pay taxes?

October 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 October 7

1. How often are US states on political world maps and globes in the Old World?
2. Snipe hunting
3. Is there any evidence indicating that the Saudi government and/or royal family has supported and funded Islamist terrorism especially 9/11?

October 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 October 8

1. What was Mussolini’s relationship with animals?
2. Any way to find older British laws online?

October 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 October 9

1. Books and other publications about the post-World War I peace settlement that were published during World War I?
2. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez question
3. Heym & Sauerwald Elektro-technische Fabrik
4. Greeting with a hand grip
5. Does anyone have Times (UK) access?
6. Asquith or Askwith?

October 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 October 10

1. Settler colonialism that was done with the consent of the existing population of a particular territory?
2. The change in Iraq's religious demographics over time?
3. 2nd Amendment interpretation
4. Source needed for Beethoven Statue by János Horvay

October 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 October 11

1. Were Ba'athist parties generally led by minorities?
2. George Galloway

October 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 October 12

1. alcohol and artificially sweetened drinks

October 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 October 13

1. The other side of the coin
2. Why do the Netherlands, Germany and Sweden have such a large mean wealth per adult to median wealth per adult?
3. Assassinating Vladimir Lenin before 1917?
4. Who was Presiding Officer of the United States Senate on 19 July 2007?

October 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 October 14

1. Beaverbrook, Lloyd George, and signposts
2. Another covid 19 question
3. Immigrants to the United States of America lying about their education and/or their work experience

October 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 October 15

1. Francis, Duke of Châtellerault's coat of arms
2. A man with many wives
3. Constitutions that prohibit amendments

October 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 October 16

1. Cities of Arabian Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal
2. Non-Francophone countries with "permis de conduire" on driving licenses
3. United States Ram Fleet

October 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 October 17

1. Parody of Kipling's "If--" attributed to Churchill
2. Colony of the Queen Charlotte Islands

October 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 October 18

1. Other cases of insignificant royalty and/or insignificant nobility acquiring a royal throne?

October 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 October 19

1. Discovery of the Mississippi

October 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 October 20

1. A repeat of Bush v. Gore next month?
2. Francis Dereham executed?

October 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 October 21

1. Frederick the Great's pederasty?
2. Museum attack
3. Special status of impeachment in US Senate
4. Groups that were historically territorially dispersed but now have a compact territorial unit of their own?
5. Did Abraham Lincoln say this, and if so when/where?

October 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 October 22

1. Did German, Italian, Austro-Hungarian, and Russian royalty and nobility ever have coats-of-arms of their own?
2. Can popular culture be considered part of actual culture
3. Did President Truman really know the military intended to drop a second atom bomb?
4. Chinese folk religion
5. Question about the 14th Amendment and "state action"

October 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 October 23

1. more ancient fragment of a play (theatre)
2. Which present-day Western monarchs married other royals, nobles, and/or aristocrats (as opposed to commoners)?

October 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 October 24

1. Were the male members of the House of Dreux and House of Artois actually recognized as princes du sang in France before these two Capetian houses became extinct in the male line in the late 15th century?

October 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 October 25

1. Why didn't the Ottoman Empire ever claim Crimea during World War I?
2. "That obscene parody of a human face"
3. M. J. Maynard
4. E-scooters
5. Old rolling stock

October 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 October 26

1. US County Consistent Election Results
2. Has the ballots so far been counted and tallied?
3. British treaty with Mexico, ratified 1827
4. Popular Vote vs Electoral College
5. The popularity of the Italian monarchy before 1940?
6. La Croix de Berny: Roman steeple-chase

October 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 October 27

1. Mass murders/anthropogenic disasters for which the classifications of genocide are currently controversial among scholars?
2. For whom the bell tolls
3. Spooky action at a distance

October 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 October 28

1. The "Crimean precedent" and realistic future forceful annexations?
2. Are there any electoral college bellwethers better than counties?
3. What is the territory of the Spanish Sahara?
4. Byzantine Armenians

October 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 October 29

1. Discovery of the Mississippi (October 19)

October 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 October 31

1. Thinking or speaking of Borgia
2. Which law professors are experts on Florida election law?
3. Venezuelan love letters
4. Battle of Verdun