Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/November 2015

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November 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 1

1. Trick-or-treat: what if you don't give any candy?
2. American Samoa website
3. US$ in Canada
4. Federalism, Canada and USA
5. Gerald, an Old Etonian in China in the '30s
6. How does the Federalist system in the US distribute power among states?

November 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 2

1. Loose railroad track
2. Rhyme/reason for US health insurance distinctions
3. Who is that woman that is being mentioned by Sam Harris here?

November 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 3

1. Der Sturmer & Der Giftpilz
2. The "Old Boundary Pine Tree" and the border of Massachusetts and New Hampshire
3. Major/minor key cultural universal?

November 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 4

1. Who is more Protestant in Switzerland, the French or Germans?
2. Tracking down an Australian entity
3. Syrian civil war isolated strongholds
4. Syrian refugees

November 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 5

1. Relationship between Porsche and Volkswagen
2. Finance/Accounting Software:
3. First usage of 'white' and 'black' for skin colour?
4. Partisan Warfare and Wehrmacht Atrocities on the Eastern Front of World War II
5. Looking for an old sci fi book

November 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 6

1. Baby orcs?
2. Buying books by width
3. The '48
4. Did Widow Conservation exist in Switzerland and the Netherlands?
5. Did Tolkien ever write a story, poem, or anything else from an orc's point of view?
6. The taxis in Benoît Brisefer

November 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 7

1. Laggard as a free rider
2. To whom does a United States senator tender his resignation?

November 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 8

1. :File:A box (reliquary) of the bones (relics) of Alfonso the Battler.PNG
2. Photographer biographical query : :File:A-J-Jaeger.jpg
3. Did Widow conservation exist in England and Scotland?
4. :File:DiodotusCoinFront.jpg

November 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 9

1. Photo-dating: :File:Jozef Haller.jpg
2. U.S. senators who have resigned
3. Christianity, the old testament, and prohibitions on homosexuality post st peter
4. Reasons for/against rule of the shorter term

November 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 10

1. Which king?
2. Identifcation query on :File:Marshall Kiev 2014.JPG
3. Sovereign nations whose subnational units have their own constitutions
4. Who is the signature "A.C.J." in the Jewish Quarterly

November 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 11

1. the superstitions/beliefs of people who used bamboo as a construction material
2. When was the District of Columbia named?
3. Paul Grignon: English and French language versions of his DVD "Money as debt"
4. Foreign historians of the Western world

November 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 12

1. The snowman, the myth, the legend
2. Sinking of SS Ancona, 8 November 1915
3. When was Wyoming Territory made?
4. Technology and unemployment

November 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 13

1. Dali's Mustache (St. Petersburg): Which artist?
2. Historical Silver Polishing method
3. Julian calendar in Wikipedia article

November 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 14

1. Student protest chants: history
2. Why is Election Day in the USA scheduled for the Tuesday right after the first Monday in November?
3. What is "E-cash"? Is there a defined meaning?
4. Red Cross volunteers

November 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 15

1. Introducing Prime Minister's Questions to Canada
2. Birthdate of Nicolae Ceauşescu - which calendar?
3. Horsemill. Would the animal work on its own, or would it always be led by a person?

November 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 16

1. How many Muslim women marry Jewish men in Israel? (Plus some more questions)
2. Free-range terrorists
3. First time that a French president addressed a joint session of Parliament since 1948?
4. SS Kresge picture

November 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 17

1. Terrorist attacks in Paris, France
2. B&B, an anachronism?
3. Dancing Israelis
4. Unamerican Activities Committee transcripts
5. information regarding mandatory life class modelling in british art schools until 1960s.
6. KFC then and now

November 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 18

1. Derivatives tracking stocks to enjoy lower tax rate
2. Religious observance
3. how can singaporean studying or holidaying in western country, protect from racist hate crime?
4. Comedians of the past who turned into prominent politicians
5. First names of Asian-Americans
6. Same sex marriage & abortion

November 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 19

1. Lolita quote?
2. Unidentified artist "Watson"
3. Social democracy vs social liberalism
4. Final fate of the Orlik armoured train

November 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 20

1. How are members of Congress expected to vote?
2. Creation
3. BVI Legal Profession Act 2015
4. Early 20th century nature illustrator Lang

November 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 21

1. Why the Key of A?
2. Bible translation that is gender neutral re God
3. Economics
4. Class/hierarchy in England

November 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 22

1. Stolen goods in the retail industry
2. Age of majority vs. voting age
3. Getting data on number of U.S. troops stationed at military bases in the Continental U.S.
4. Ammon
5. How could the price of oil fall more than 50% that fast?
6. French Resistance, Nobel laureates, and cricket

November 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 23

1. UK handicapped symbols
2. Need help tracking down a Thomas Jefferson quote
3. Opinion pieces as news in The Daily Telegraph
4. Are Jihad and Islamic State the same thing?
5. Getting to know women in niqab
6. Term for when characters invent dialogue

November 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 24

1. Popular contemporary political philosophers
2. Tools used to create Ancient Roman inscriptions
3. What's the point of "bringing back" extinct species?

November 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 25

1. Republic of Texas: Date problem
2. Details handling software
3. Arts: Help needed
4. George Sand's Orlando
5. Painting reminds me of another

November 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 26

1. Do the world think about the German understanding what the internet is?
2. How long did Corbyn get to work on his letter?

November 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 27

1. How does one contribute to a charity in someone else's name?
2. Economic logic behind timing of discounts
3. How can Singaporeans studying in Western countries protect themselves from crime and racism?
4. Rosamond by Mary J Holmes
5. Political font
6. What kind of Atheist am I?
7. 666 666 issue

November 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 28

1. Manhattan highrise mixed zoning?
2. WWII Germans wearing enemy uniforms
3. Use of military infoboxes
4. Peglike objects from the Old Kingdom
5. What American states allow abortions to be performed in hospitals?

November 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 29

1. Correlation between sex and and childbirth
2. Do me a Faber
3. Picture of David Jewett Waller, Sr.

November 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 November 30

1. Some questions on WWII
2. Boston Fish Pier, Boston Fish Wharf
3. Metropolitan France
4. Last formal declaration of war