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November 1

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1. Need help identifying Kim Aviance sources

November 2

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1. Locating medieval Women's slave market in Istanbul, Turkey?
2. Question about Trentino's voting in 1946
3. Cases where a newly independent state was created from the territory of two or more countries simultaneously or almost simultaneously?
4. What would you call this architectural style and is it bullshit?
5. Isambard Kingdom Brunel in the United States

November 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 3

1. Is there a step-by-step process or a video on how to find sources on any topic?
2. When did Albrecht Dürer paint his monkey?
3. Cases of ancient territorial claims being successfully revived?
4. presidential election

November 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 4

1. When does the 2020 United States Census count take effect to get reflected in the "new" United States congressional apportionment?
2. Virginia Prince year of graduation

November 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 5

1. Countries other than the US where media outlets project the results of elections, even immediately after polls close
2. Which are non Wikipedia sources on encyclopedic and compendium writing?
3. 2020 USA Presidential election

November 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 6

1. 2020 US presidential election question
2. Demographic change resulting in political changes in large territories?
3. US again
4. Prediction markets for US election?

November 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 7

1. Declaring the result in the states
2. Verb question

November 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 8

1. US elections – "estimated votes reported"
2. Why didn't Justice Blackmun join Justice Stevens's dissent in Bowers v. Hardwick?
3. Disraeli - "That hellish Jew"
4. Why have human electors at all?
5. US order of precedence

November 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 9

1. Just how many people does a large US county with half a million total votes have actually counting the ballots after a particular election?
2. Harris Biden
3. US presidential transitional powers
4. Cases where royal status was maintained for the longest number of generations after being descended from a king?

November 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 10

1. self-injected medicines
2. The Menin Gate, and what others?
3. Bush v. Gore
4. NAIDOC Week
5. Trump vs Biden
6. January 20, 2021 . . . what if . . .
7. Another question about recounting in Florida in 2000

November 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 11

1. What would have happened to a white/black person who would have openly expressed support for miscegenation in the Jim Crow South but without actually personally engaging in this practice?

November 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 12

1. Balance of power in US Senate for 2021
2. Circassians: Italian and Russian language sources help request
3. What publisher does 'Typis Caroli Georgi Univ. Typogr.' refer to?
4. Who was "Colonel Sir Charles Waterhouse"?
5. Electoral College in the 2020 elections

November 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 13

1. Significant demographic changes in Russia between 1897 and the start of World War I?
2. Why Chips?
3. The Great Migration and an increase in crime in Northern US cities?

November 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 14

1. Is the existence of Santa Claus disputed?

November 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 15

1. In what sense was the Second Mexican Empire an empire?
2. Help deciphering an artwork on a shirt.
3. Sadurmelickh , Who is this Tartar woman?
4. Connotations of "Orient" and "oriental"
5. Nancy Joe at Quiberon?
6. Education

November 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 17

1. 5 year trial delay for train attack
2. Media calling the US election results
3. "The New Way" Series, Liberal pamphlets

November 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 18

1. What is "Virgo Garnru"?

November 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 19

1. Why did the US take over the Danish West Indies but not any other Caribbean islands other than Puerto Rico?
2. Turkish language sources help request
3. When was Matilda of Scotland regent?

November 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 20

1. When was Matilda of Flanders regent?
2. Where was Jean Berain the Elder born?

November 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 21

1. New York results for 2020 US presidential election
2. Engraving

November 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 22

1. Inserting a footnote onto Wikipedia

November 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 23

1. Is there any chance Trump could still win?
2. Additional cases of an ethnic group converting en masse from Christianity to Islam over the last 1,000 years?
3. Who painted this ceiling please?
4. Christians of Jewish descent being murdered by the Nazis: Additional examples of this?
5. District of Columbia presidential electors

November 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 24

1. What's the origin of this story please?
2. Persian versions of ancient Greek names
3. Why did the Soviet Union's other East Asian populations never become as large as the Soviet Union's Korean population did?

November 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 25

1. Have Eastern Orthodox Christians ever engaged in proselytization in large numbers?
2. Prominent gender non-conforming politicians in Western republics before the last several decades?

November 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 26

1. Former thrones that already have or are soon likely to have a succession dispute?
2. Variant flag of Belarus question
3. And When You've Paid the Bill, You're None the Wiser

November 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 27

1. Is there any online community collaborating on plagiarism exposé?

November 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 28

1. Picture of a chess queen

November 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 29

1. Did the Soviet Union lay/press any claims on southern Sakhalin before 1945?
2. What are the earliest sources that mention Saint Nicholas?
3. Native Americans culture
4. A group having a huge diaspora population in a particular place in spite of having no history of territorial control over this place?

November 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 November 30

1. Help with finding Articles of Countries
2. Traitors in the Camp