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October 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 October 1

1. Clarington, Ontario

October 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 October 2

1. Personality
2. more respectable interconnections
3. Are the legal codes of the various legal systems in public domain?
4. Born/died out of the 48.

October 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 October 3

1. Identifying a book
2. Exemption from Crash testing in the US
3. is there any forum which analyzes written materials of any kind and reveals the political flavor of it
4. Salvationists with articles
5. Photo of Brigitte Kuhlmann
6. First French-speaking king
7. What records are there, if any, of nazi criminals who evaded or tried to evade capture by assuming Jewish surnames after World War II?

October 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 October 4

1. Type of fallacy
2. Sun Style Tai Chi for Arthritis
3. Eleanor Roosevelt's preference in the 1948 election
4. Receiving funds in France from the US… What forms to fill ?
5. whar are the formal terminologies describing the sliding scale between hard serious attitude and apathetic jocular attitude
6. "LEAD competencies" ("Leadership, Excellence, Achievement & Development")

October 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 October 5

1. Rebeka Montoya
2. Trying to identify building in Madrid
3. Does the Trans-Pacific Partnership imply any change in the free movement of workers?
4. Russian brides

October 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 October 6

1. Time zone offset covering largest area
2. Religious articles sought
3. Roughtor, Cornwall, given to the nation

October 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 October 7

1. Araminta Ross
2. Feist v. Rural concurring opinion
3. Legal situation, when non-financial essential companies fail
4. Corbyn and poetry

October 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 October 9

1. Two vanishing points in one point perspective.
2. Detroit sidewalk markings
3. in the political spectrum of left-right, at which end do feminism and women's rights fall?
4. what is the name of the speech pattern, attitude pattern and form showcased by secret agents of government, military, black ops, mib etc?
5. Westminster Hall debates
6. Personal liability for company actions

October 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 October 10

1. Does any institution tape TV?

October 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 October 11

1. Unauthorized removal of the article without debate to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion
2. book list
3. Putting a Muslim body in the pig's body prevent his soul to go to paradise - true or false?
4. Rape culture

October 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 October 12

1. Term for separated couples but not divorced in case of job?
2. First place with women's suffrage
3. Looking for art colleges
4. Colonialism in Africa
5. Let Jesus into your life

October 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 October 13

1. Longest direct flights
2. Oldest building in NYC = 1805?
3. What would motivate men in patriarchal societies to raise daughters differently?
4. Thomas á Jesu

October 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 October 14

1. Buddhist teaching

October 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 October 15

1. Trade routes in pre-Colombian North America
2. Famous non-politicians who were gubernatorial nominees in the U.S.
3. Skepples

October 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 October 16

1. Purpose of Toronto School District Board
2. Who was Hendrick Hudson?
3. Drone base on Cyprus
4. Were there any indigenous Australian cities?
5. Yanzhou (ancient China)
6. Teacher - student relations
7. Epistolary cookbook novel
8. Why isn't a mob assault felony murder?
9. Is chess a sport or a game? Are all games sports?
10. WWI bombers

October 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 October 17

1. Mysterious music file
2. Present-day "unpopular" monarchs and monarchies
3. United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine
4. Can stock holders sue the company they have a stake in?
5. Portraits of ancient Greeks and Roman Emperors

October 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 October 18

1. Patent trolling for benefit of the public domain

October 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 October 19

1. Westernmost Virginia ≠ West Virginia
2. Number of air strike missions per day in Syria
3. what terms are used to describe paranoia, fear and concern regarding the increasing reach of main and alternate media leading to increasing privacy violations?

October 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 October 20

1. Aladdin
2. What is the second most widely used calendar in the world?

October 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 October 21

1. ArtReview Power 100 list
2. Legality of selling useless products and services
3. Belgian Congo

October 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 October 22

1. Reference request
2. Nazi Propaganda

October 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 October 23

1. what view opposes science, technology, innovation, all things "artificial" and supports "natural" lifestyle, aesthetics, food, attire, governence etc
2. Suppressors as standard issue equipment
3. How we stand ?
4. Did any U.S. Presidents suffer from mental illness?

October 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 October 24

1. Early people and EXTREMELY LONG lifespans
2. What was the 1941 "Save the doctors" order in Nazi Germany?
3. F.W De Klerk and Apartheid
4. Most expensive thing ever bought
5. Whose side is who in Syria?
6. Nipple specifics

October 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 October 25

1. Hurtigruten revenues
2. Presidents or prime ministers running against each other for other office

October 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 October 26

1. Communism and Atheism
2. Evidence of Kuwaiti Slant Drilling
3. Unusual abdications
4. Minimum mandated percentage of fat in mayonnaise
5. Why were there no continent-wide (or beyond) empires from the Southern Hemisphere?
6. Was England the only early 19th-century European country were unmarried women were of legal majority?
7. Canadian citizenship oath and niqab
8. Why are men who like Barbra Streisand considered gay?

October 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 October 27

1. What's a Turkish wrap called?

October 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 October 28

1. Archaic tractor at Great Oregon Steamup 2014-2015
2. US President from American Samoa
3. Umaid Bhawan Palace

October 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 October 29

1. Alfred E. Neuman and Kladderadatsch
2. Louisiana Purchase and West Florida
3. Peter Fleming's travelling companion - a tall Lord in Manchukuo

October 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 October 30

1. Who was Saint Albright?
2. Bookshops with sofas and comfy chairs
3. How are laws against illegal abortions enforced in the US?
4. Zdzisław Beksiński paintings on view in america?

October 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 October 31

1. Republicanism in Canada