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November 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 November 1

1. Defamation slope
2. How often do Catholics have to go to confession?
3. United States presidential election, 1828

November 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 November 2

1. smoking in class
2. Native Americans questions - from Canada to South America.

November 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 November 3

1. Identification of biogrpahical subject..
2. Golden arches

November 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 November 4

1. The Big Street's name
2. Largest geographic language
3. In the low-cost airline, intercity train and intercity bus market

November 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 November 5

1. Two-trees statue in Bethlehem

November 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 November 6

1. Last precious-metal coin bearing the Queen's image issued for circulation
2. Azeri breakaway region

November 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 November 7

1. Regarding the photographer for :File:Brown lady.jpg
2. Indigenous Russian Literature

November 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 November 8

1. Verify that three states ban "consent searches"
2. 1840s Mexican Population question.

November 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 November 9

1. Recent United States presidential approval rating
2. Worst mass shooting in US history?
3. Death penalty for killing a cat in medieval England.
4. JSTOR help please - Kenneth O. Morgan: My Histories
5. borrow against future income stream?
6. Trade Between Ancient Egypt and the Shang Dynasty

November 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 November 10

1. The Lament for Icarus and Ethel Warwick
2. Does the left hand not know what the right hand is doing?

November 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 November 11

1. More Native Americans questions.
2. Buddhist Monk
3. Buddha/Zarathustra Works

November 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 November 12

1. Pre-World War I election maps

November 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 November 13

1. US Democratic Party primaries and midterm elections 2018 results by counties
2. Prosperity theology in Islam and Judaism
3. Middle Age calendars

November 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 November 15

1. Why did Hungary remain a kingdom (regency) after the end of World War I?
2. Why are Russian Jews by far the least fertile ethnic group in Russia?
3. U.S. law question - hotels.
4. new Internet cat meme

November 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 November 16

1. Geography + language
2. Country of largest area with only 1 time zone

November 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 November 17

1. question: John Murray 11 son of John Murray 1775 to 1825 ....did he publish "Letters from the Irish Highlands" letters from the blake family?
2. When did suicide become a sin?
3. US flag
4. What medal did the King give Private Harry Shell[e]y? What was Harold's surname? And who was General Holman?

November 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 November 18

1. Non-EU euro use
2. The history of academic dress
3. What did Vyners sell?
4. Racial and ethnicity inequalities comparison Canada and Bangladesh conflict perspective

November 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 November 19

1. E. Bedford Grey
2. Hong Kong
3. WWII Americans living in Japan

November 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 November 20

1. Do people tend to stay together in the various schools of Buddhism and Hinduism?
2. supporting the arts in the UK
3. Are the Articles of Confederation still in effect?

November 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 November 21

1. King (surname)
2. George Bataille and the abyss
3. The little difficuly with Turkey at the head of the Red Sea - 1906

November 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 November 22

1. POTUS
2. Even numbers in ancient Rome

November 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 November 23

1. Cornwall novel

November 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 November 24

1. The Khmer population in Buriram Province of Thailand
2. 1875 railroad route
3. Things that young adults do
4. Did Jewish men wear their hair long in the first century?
5. Society of Arts Gold Medal
6. Donald trump and the mainstream media
7. Where is Xenere (in Iraq?)?

November 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 November 25

1. Is there any connection between JFK's assassination and Khrushchev's ouster?
2. telephone
3. Casualties in the Polish anti-communist insurgency
4. What does it mean for a bill to be 'defeated' in the UK House of Lords?
5. Did Genghis Khan really create the Yam (route), or was it Ögedei Khan?

November 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 November 26

1. African Americans and East Indians
2. Could you build a tube to space?
3. With all the advances in science in regards to creating organs with your cells and advances in DNA editing would it ever be possible to grow and organ that one didnt have in the first place such as a trans women getting a genetically similar uterus?
4. Toys R Us bankruptcy and "a dollar more than the liquidators"
5. California governor recall 2003, could Gray Davis have run to replace himself?

November 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 November 27

1. Did any hierarchy of social statuses ever have a "pecking order" based on one of the 3 dimensions?
2. Copied question 1
3. Gomer Pyle in The Short-Timers, Full Metal Jacket, and reality
4. Copied question 2
5. Question
6. Robin Hood
7. Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas -> Acting

November 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 November 28

1. Humphry Davy
2. Real lawsuit for virtual theft
3. Who was Colonel Drewry?

November 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 November 29

1. Is Singapore part of the Muslim world?

November 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 November 30

1. References proving notability of an artist - an illustrator
2. Where on the internet is a good place to ask questions about the WWI era?
3. On the variability of geographic names
4. Name-dropping in a Canadian novel