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November 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 November 1

1. unattractive women
2. One does not simply walk into Mordor!
3. Satire artwork interpretation
4. Location of street address in California and attributes

November 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 November 2

1. How much did Thomas Peterffy pay for his seat on the AMEX in the 70s?
2. Punjabi Sindhi Pashto Baloch Universities in Pakistan
3. FEMA centralized displacement city
4. Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Weapons of Mass Destruction
5. Voting in hurricane ravaged areas
6. St. Patrick's Church, County Down
7. Liechtenstein
8. Non-denominational Christians and Bible Studies/Prayer Meetings
9. Axis natural resources
10. Language attitudes in Islam
11. Penal Servitude in the UK
12. A few quotations
13. Shortest branch line
14. Where is the free will?
15. Are there any European Far-Right Parties that support Iran?
16. Animism
17. Ancestry of Robert Browning
18. Robot president
19. Stays of executions in the United States

November 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 November 3

1. Turin Cannon Pyramid Construction Details.
2. American School of Design, New York
3. Proof of chastity
4. Why do campaigns bother with internal polls?
5. Building in Toronto
6. Account
7. Where and when should I cast my vote?
8. Minority-Majority Congressional/Electoral Districts

November 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 November 4

1. How would Romney improve healthcare and education?
2. People's squeamishness over plot details
3. Nihilism and violence
4. Charles VIII of Sweden
5. What did the people of Post-Roman Gaul call themselves before they became French?
6. Voting places for people displaced by Hurricane Sandy?
7. Annexation of Rapa
8. Can the president of USA change his/her religion while in office?
9. Lamar Smith's approval ratings after SOPA
10. Easter - Passover
11. British Empire
12. Highlanders

November 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 November 5

1. Dine for America
2. economic crisis
3. denial of authority
4. psychological foundations of education
5. Leo Ryan and Jonestown
6. Locating a last will and testament
7. Vouchers
8. Church emphasis on "personal relationship with God"
9. Live Stream US election
10. Interracial sexual arousal among racists

November 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 November 6

1. Full style of Norwegian monarchs
2. Israeli presidents and Israeli prime ministers by Jewish sect
3. Japanese royal family
4. End of the world
5. Psychiatric question
6. Election question
7. Forex trading
8. Don't you have a cool-off period before elections?
9. Marotiri
10. Tubuai and Raivavae
11. How many children of the American Civil War veterans are still alive?
12. Israel
13. Affidavit without a lawyer

November 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 November 7

1. senate gavel
2. Number of polling stations in America
3. Politics
4. United States presidential election, 2016
5. Reason(s) for party majority difference between U.S. Senate and U.S. Governors?
6. Puerto Rican status referendum, 2012
7. why weren't jews admited to moscow state university math programs?
8. Not sure how to fix a statement about Politics
9. Could wiki communities ever be a "public policy" topic?
10. Why is Florida taking so long to declare for Romney or Obama?
11. Presidents that never were
12. Saura, Vérin, Mousey
13. Medieval titles of nobility in multiple kingdoms
14. Another Presidential Election question
15. Who's inherited Agatha Christie's estate?

November 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 November 8

1. Newt Gingrich's moon base idea
2. Good luck custom -- only in England?
3. Precedent for marriage referendums?
4. Famous people surviving catastrophes early in life
5. In "The Book Thief", what is the author, Markus Zusak, trying to say about certain issues in relation to conflict?
6. Yet another US election question - small-town results
7. when did scientists first get paid?
8. Our article on the Holocaust reads that Freemasons were also targeted, how did the Nazis know who was a Freemason?
9. Are people such as Michael J. Fox, Jim Carrey allowed to vote in both Canada and the U.S.?
10. Is it true that Hitler first killed his dog to test the pills?
11. Do we know for sure that President Obama will be able to appoint more Supreme Court judges?
12. Pencil milling
13. Human nature evolution
14. Native American voting patterns
15. India own 51st state issue
16. French Polynesian mayors
17. Parliamentary procedure?
18. Was it luck or police failure?
19. How legally binding is "conceding" an election?

November 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 November 9

1. -er/-re
2. RCAF strategical map in the Battle of Britain
3. Clumsy typography on old buildings
4. Hurricane Sandy ribbons
5. Xi Jinping military service
6. Yet another US presidential election question-Electoral college Reform
7. Do customer service workers in England address male customers as "Sir"?
8. Class consciousness in the U.K.
9. Re: Puerto Rican status referendum, 2012
10. Will Obama help the "Palestinian people" build their state?
11. Greater Bangladesh
12. Code of Tehauroa (1884)
13. It's legal to kill a Scotsman in York?
14. September 11 and the dancing Palestinians
15. Forcing sovereign government to pay
16. Political allegiances of CEOs

November 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 November 10

1. Was Amenhotep IV Nefertiti 's cousin? And were they related through adoption or blood? Why did they Egyptians marry their relatives anyway?
2. Republican Party in US
3. Galen
4. A "Book Thief" quote?
5. Is capital punishment truly effective in lowering crime rates?
6. Parental Consent Abortion Laws Enforcement
7. Communism and capital punishment
8. Irene Adler
9. Titanic's stewards and their responsibility
10. Researching Supreme Court Justice Opinions
11. Armies capturing each other's main city
12. How many US Americans have German surnames?
13. Which years of the Senate election cycle favor each party? (USA)
14. Why did the Nazis persecute the homosexual?
15. "Brown people"?
16. A Scandal in Bohemia

November 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 November 11

1. what is a dignitary and what does that person do?
2. Did the vikings believe in gods other than Odin?
3. Literary Term/"Meta"
4. A Nazi who wore glasses and was responsible for the killings of the disabled, can anybody help me?
5. What exactly is the view of continental philosophers to formal logic?
6. Shariah banned in which states?
7. Jewish holidays
8. Festivals that Bengali hindus do and don't celebrate
9. First Class of Lahainaluna
10. The Matrix

November 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 November 12

1. Death of community - references please
2. S. S. Hill
3. Celebrities quoting from the Bible
4. Can philosophy be done and understood with only informal logic?
5. What book is September reading?
6. Does increasing female Infidelity mean that men are getting less gay?
7. Are Canada and the U.S. on the same side on the Iranian issue?
8. Sir Peter Hayman (MI6)
9. Military culture
10. Attending some courses at prestigious colleges
11. Is Anderson Cooper's coming out a hindrance to his career?
12. berenger sauniere
13. U.S. Conquering British Canada in the War of 1812

November 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 November 13

1. Birmingham, England hotel, meals, and transportation fees
2. George Kanahele
3. Azania
4. Why didn't Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marry King George V of Hanover?
5. Citations back in the day
6. Nakai Nalimaʻaluʻalu Davis
7. God's grace
8. Cousins
9. found an old handwrite book and want to know what is his origins

November 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 November 14

1. Finnish free university education
2. Ship of Theseus
3. Protestant Holy Roman Emperor
4. Pederasty
5. September 11 attacks

November 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 November 15

1. National Guard nuclear weapons
2. University System
3. Regarding the Assassination of Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh
4. Root cause behind the Fatah–Hamas_conflict
5. university policies on police clearance
6. Study question
7. "Shady Groves" and "Matty Groves"
8. top hats among jew men of different sects and ethnic groups
9. Samuel Kipi

November 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 November 16

1. Republic VS Democracy
2. Most Partisan U.S. Counties
3. How to nominate someone for the Order of Canada?
4. Succession of Monaco in 1919
5. Human sexual behavior:
6. William Alister Macdonald portrait of Teuruarii IV
7. "Non-practicing Muslim or whatever"
8. American Civil War

November 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 November 17

1. Census Data for Diyala Province
2. Two Separate Middle East Questions
3. Revolutionary War Descendants Question
4. Is the UN anti-Israel?
5. When does the term for Stephen Harper end?
6. Israel and Pacific island nations
7. British monarch exercising ceremonial power in other realms
8. Robert Louis Stevenson and Isobel Strong
9. Was Jesus Jewish and Christian?
10. Sketch of J. Piikoi's Life
11. Queen Kapiolani at Golden Jubilee
12. Eli Yishai ever speak Arabic?

November 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 November 18

1. Other than Cubans and Colombians, which Latino nationalities in the U.S tend to vote more for Republicans?
2. American merchant/missionary families in the 1800s
3. Witches' sabbaths
4. Which countries have voted in favor of Israel?
5. Biography of Sherley Toulson
6. Thomas Hopu
7. Harper's administration and foreign policy
8. History of the Hawaiian Islands
9. European priest-kings?
10. The Philippines and total plastic bag bans (again) (moved from Science Refdesk)
11. Nine Years' War/Rhineland and the Empire

November 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 November 19

1. Texas Claiming a Part of Oklahoma in 1892
2. The centennial book: one hundred years of Christian civilization in Hawaii, 1820-1920
3. Buttoning the top button
4. How many people are dying in Gaza? (moved from Science Refdesk)
5. Freud's Civilization and its Discontents
6. Conspiracy theorists on banking

November 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 November 20

1. Barack Obama in Southeast Asia
2. Set of line drawings all titled 'The Beaujolais Sset'
3. Do the Israelis have it all mapped out?
4. Divorcing a spouse with mental instability
5. 1854 engraving of Waimea
6. Lyndon B. Johnson corruption

November 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 November 21

1. Scarborough Shoal
2. Longest public holiday
3. Logo's Etymology (college of Europe)
4. Jewish cap worn by Mizrahi Haredi men
5. Keapaweo Mountain
6. Royal Staff
7. How segregated is Iraq and Israel?
8. Barriers to entry in the mining machine maintenance industry in Australia
9. Why is the MBTI called that?

November 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 November 22

1. Individual Investor Share
2. Laura Secord
3. top incomes
4. Is Sandy Island a mountweazel?
5. Watchful eyes
6. Is the man on the right of the photo Ignacy Loga-Sowiński ?
7. Stuffed animals
8. Lawyering in Texas
9. Why was Africa the dark continent?

November 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 November 23

1. dessert from Arabic?
2. info (metropolitan vs. megapolitan)
3. Campus Police
4. Open access rail and skies
5. Article 21 of the UNDHR
6. MOOC search
7. 1990s discovery that would alter established beliefs about Human beings
8. what are some of patents that are considered by legal experts to be quite broad, but which courts have uphold?

November 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 November 24

1. Hadith numerations
2. Israeli airstrikes and its allies
3. what would be an example of a short, bog-standard typical patent document for a device that is now commonplace? (it can be expired, by now.)
4. The United Kingdom of what?
5. Maryland Supreme Court
6. Gold State Coach
7. Medieval Europe
8. Developmental Psychology Video

November 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 November 25

1. Is there a link between conservatism and religion?
2. The Philippines and plastic bag bans (yet again)
3. What are the current British laws on treason?
4. Is it possible for people or their parents and grandparents not to have cousins or siblings? (A family of only children)
5. What percent of the adult population over 18 has never been married nor ever been in romantic relationships?
6. How would reliabilism justify knowledge?
7. Why did the Southern states ratify the 13th amendment?
8. Why do humans enjoy fictional stories?
9. Muslim meal times
10. World War II and the suicide of most Nazi members
11. Who is educated?
12. Turning into a market maker (not in the stock market)
13. symbols of France, Netherlands, Italy, Germany, and Spain
14. Music
15. Separatists winning the Scottish Parliament elections.
16. Did Churchill say something like this?

November 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 November 26

1. Tolerance
2. mizrahi and sephardi jew politics
3. The OTHER Middle-Eastern Religions
4. Punahou, Hilo
5. Waimea United Church of Christ
6. Ernest Hemingway and Ludwig Renn (Spanish Civil War, 1936-39)
7. RMS Titanic

November 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 November 27

1. Keith Baines
2. Transnational metropolitan areas
3. Temple details
4. Philipp Bouhler and his killings of the disabled
5. Recorded speculations about the "origin of energy"?
6. Idiots guide to 2011 UK census release calendar
7. Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu
8. The United States Supreme Court Overruling Itself Twice

November 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 November 28

1. 2012 Campaign Question
2. First European to cross the equator
3. de-law-ification
4. Hazara dominated provinces of Afghanistan

November 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 November 29

1. Schuyler A Donnella Retired secret service field chief. 1867?-1929 ss time frame
2. Hebrew Publishing Company
3. Countries With Little or No State/Province Boundary Changes Over Time
4. Why did Russia get all the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons?
5. Lincoln Avoiding the Whole Idea of Secession?
6. Obama as vice-president
7. Help with a Native American Myth
8. Webcomic parable reference
9. 18 party in Bangladesh with BNP?
10. Palestine 2012 UN Statehood Vote

November 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 November 30

1. Jewish holidays on 10th Muharram
2. Verification on the Chenier Cell considering itself the "most macho of the FLQ"?
3. Large Articles/Papers on Race/Ethnicity History in National Censuses
4. the sinking of the “Girona” ship
5. Street grids
6. Agape
7. Tocharian city states
8. Looking in the Congressional Record
9. Portrait of Henry Pitman
10. Recipient nomination