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October 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 1

1. Occupational Hazards
2. Real name suing Nom de Plume
3. How much does it cost the US government to run a website?
4. Prison deaths
5. Biblical family tree
6. Vindication of national debt
7. Question on determining Hispanic/Latino identity

October 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 2

1. What was the former national anthem of Luxembourg that is based on To Anacreon in Heaven?
2. Islam in bible
3. Omaha World-Herald
4. Japanese Wikipedia and semi-protection
5. muhurtham ceremony
6. lombards and native italians.
7. Scotland's population density

October 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 3

1. have there ever been studies of large numbers of people doing something for a very short time?
2. What does Barack Obama drink?
3. Jimmy Carter's cabinet
4. Question about Hamlet
5. How did parents toilet-train their kids before the invention of flushy toilets?
6. Asian Americans in government and politics
7. Canadian-USA Border Laxity?
8. Financial and economic costs of anti-gay efforts?
9. Jakob Lorber museum?
10. What happened after the other financial bubbles?

October 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 4

1. Favor Bank
2. Glasgow and Edinburgh census 2011
3. Quote on master/slave relations in pre-civil-war US
4. Advent and Christmastide
5. East african nations Ismaili nizari population
6. Succession of the U.S. Speaker of the House

October 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 5

1. French-Speaking Black/Sub-Saharan African Countries Being More Pro-Homosexuality Than Their (African) Neighbors
2. Noise
3. Who transforms gold scraps into gold bars, if at all?
4. Shakespeare in French literature
5. Unification Canada - US

October 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 6

1. Has there been a German term "Judendot"?
2. Writers who are Ismaili nizari and Canadian and write about Ismaili Nizaris in East Africa
3. Ismaili nizari surnames

October 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 7

1. Verhoeven's sneaking sympathy for RAH?
2. Signing of constitiunal amendments (USA)
3. North/South split in Italy
4. Law
5. Use of the Romansh language in Swiss, legal citations.

October 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 8

1. Hypothetical US law question - Illegal spying?
2. Disturbing images in Revelation
3. Number of nonreligious people who study the Bible
4. Woman president
5. Salaama Hut in Toronto
6. Australia census by ethnicity and religions and by cities and divisions in the federal government
7. How easy is it to get a low paying job?
8. Entering a hotel via the window
9. German Argentinians in Europe
10. Are ISBN numbers in the public domain?

October 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 9

1. What about Peake?
2. Recommendations for graphic novels
3. A Rhetorics introduction textbook?

October 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 10

1. It's drafty in here.
2. King James Version and the Apocrypha
3. Why do Jewish people look white?
4. What proportion of Americans were raised in Christian households?
5. Deregulation in 2000s in the US
6. UCAS

October 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 12

1. Other Examples of Colonial Partitions
2. Was a Comprehensive Encyclopedia like Wikipedia Ever Imagined in Science Fiction or Fantasy?
3. 18th-century Spies
4. Nuclear tridents

October 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 13

1. The Geography of Thought
2. New towns in the United Kingdom, Scotland specifically
3. Against "nationalism"?
4. Scotland Secession Question

October 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 14

1. Percent of the world's urban population living in slums
2. Why are negative attitudes about adultery so widespread?
3. What topics are censored on the Chinese internet?
4. utilities forced payments to itself from customers
5. A free trip to North Korea?!

October 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 15

1. Korean peace treaty
2. Irish surnames
3. When did the horses were observed in India first?

October 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 16

1. source for 1 dead englishman = 10 dead germans= 100 dead chinese
2. Buildings in France
3. Acceptable role of government in society
4. Looking for critique of Dooyeweerd
5. Had there been any confirmed or suspected cases of "citogenesis" on Wikipedia?
6. Style of warfare in the Star Wars milieu
7. A political question about Brunei?

October 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 17

1. Pre-electronic and/or telephonic/telegraphic international trade.
2. Suspicion of possessing a destructive device
3. Visa US bank gift card
4. Invasiveness
5. Walking in the parent's footsteps as a career path...
6. Christian X of Denmark

October 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 18

1. Stephen Fry - Out there
2. Why is Santa Muerte a saint rather than an angel?
3. Earliest written record of the leg transplant of Saints Cosmas and Damian

October 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 19

1. Chinese zodiac
2. Use of OL in German politics
3. Time limits on conditions in wills

October 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 20

1. Liking children
2. Abdication of King George III of Great Britain
3. When and where was William Samuel Henson born?
4. Robbery of medals etc in London
5. Was there any attempted cooperation between Napoleonic France & USA in the War of 1812?
6. What is 'hitting rock bottom' in economics
7. are any foods made of apple seeds?

October 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 21

1. explanation of famous picture: lunch during building skyscraper (workmen sitting down on a beam)
2. Confusion about the Time Line of Events in Hamlet
3. Perfect competitive market
4. :File:England Adminstrative 2010.png
5. Washington Coat of Arms Verification
6. Titanic violin fetched £900,000 in 10 minutes at auction - why didn't they wait for the price to go up further?
7. Since when did the French language drop out of the English tongue?
8. Difference in "right-wing" definition stateside and across the pond
9. Name these stories - two Chinese and the other Spanish
10. Which bible version has the most contributions to literature?

October 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 22

1. 16th/17th century French book describing medieval Paris
2. Whatever happened to Joanne Jacobs?
3. Looking for a good explanation of literacy problems
4. What would be the consequences...

October 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 23

1. humanities
2. Identifying source Journals..
3. Any Info on Jessie Willcox Smith?
4. Wu Sangui (another story)
5. Speed of transport in 1810s Europe
6. Referring to civil unrest and violence in Northern Ireland

October 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 24

1. Relationship between foreign services
2. Fishing dependent communities in Spain and Portugal
3. Is Christianity just more intertwined in African American culture?
4. Andrew Brown

October 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 25

1. The town of Bulembu and the Bulembu clan
2. Editable
3. I would like you to add my books to your references
4. Why does the US spy on its allies?
5. Sweden
6. Need reference about inspiration of Tolkien

October 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 26

1. Towns called Verdi
2. Tit for Tat (Does the US spy on Americans in Israel?)
3. Information regarding legality of file use and file format propriety
4. Brighton Rock

October 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 27

1. How to get ISO/IEC and ANSI to release the C, C++ and Common Lisp specifications under a free content license?
2. Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma

October 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 28

1. Prayer Book recommendations
2. Pentecost Island, Vanuatu
3. House of Lords laughter
4. Wikipedia Founder
5. Death of Phaethon
6. The ole switcheroo
7. Getting to the bottom of things

October 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 29

1. Research paradigms in business research
2. Sewel and the Synod
3. King cobra
4. Desk pen holders in the Oval Office
5. Letter for England
6. WW2 musical themes

October 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 30

1. Stock buyout: why include a dividend?
2. Motive(s) and volunteer work
3. Taliban killings of Hazara people
4. Is there a way to tell how dark the skin color has to be in order to be considered "colored"?
5. Where to find papers from the United States Naval Institute Proceedings
6. Older people in the wee hours of the morning in church...
7. USS Haven (AH-12)
8. Macchiavelian, Machiavellian Kafkian, Orwellian
9. Blood type

October 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 31

1. Picasso painting
2. Iraq war
3. Question about history on courtesy and manners
4. Televangelism outside of the United States
5. In mystery/detective stories
6. Valdemar III's seal
7. Assisted suicide