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November 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 November 2

1. Free availability of texts by B. Russell
2. What painting is this from?
3. How is Day of the Dead different from All Saints Day?

November 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 November 3

1. How many countries are dependent on the US for military protection?

November 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 November 4

1. Early Soviet union republics
2. Kit Harrington
3. Using trees to conserve archaeological sites

November 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 November 5

1. Statues in Athens

November 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 November 6

1. Does any country make all-able bodied elementary schoolers run metric mile+ races?

November 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 November 7

1. Khrushchev's shoe

November 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 November 8

1. Glossary of Islam [The Meaning of Tyriak (theriac?)]

November 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 November 9

1. Western thought
2. When and why did Judaism stop practicing polygamy?
3. Anytown, USA, population...
4. The Worms of County Durham, Northumberland, and the Scottish Borders

November 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 November 10

1. Roster for Hawaii Territorial Legislators
2. Posse comitatus vs. Hue and cry

November 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 November 11

1. Shops in Neuromancer game
2. absentee ballot
3. New Mexico during World War II
4. Whereabouts info about a Russian painting
5. Need help creating article about graphic artist using primary source material and published artifacts

November 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 November 12

1. sales [of real estate by lottery in Japan]
2. Translation of The Order of Things
3. "May the road rise to meet you" and other "traditional Irish" blessings

November 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 November 13

1. Baby boom in Arizona after D-backs championship
2. What national border in Europe is geometric?

November 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 November 14

1. What Christian denomination sect has beliefs and practices that are closest to what is currently known about early Christianity?
2. Client vs supplier vs sponsor
3. Catacombs of Praetextatus
4. Non scholae sed vitae

November 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 November 15

1. A Good Text Analysis of Sound of Silence
2. How rich do first worlders need to be before other developed countries let them move there and not work?
3. Western Europe and Eastern Europe
4. Economy
5. Reason to love Canada [Was the Joke that Canada was the only nation to have defeated the US historically accurate?]
6. Breastplate
7. Why did Sierra-class submarines have shark teeth painted on them?
8. Two disasters, same cause

November 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 November 16

1. Industries
2. Question about existence of my first relative

November 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 November 17

1. Indian driving licences
2. Private debt to GDP
3. How did the British Empire end up with the Statute of Westminster?
4. Branding on large infrastructure projects

November 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 November 19

1. Statutes at Large
2. Female politicians of American Samoa
3. Anglo Saxon Archbishop of Canterbury
4. court language(s) in either Sicily
5. Zimbabweans
6. How did the Nazis finance their public works projects?
7. [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Wedgwood_(1771-1805).jpg How could it be if cameras didn't exist until the 1820s?]

November 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 November 20

1. Al wadi desert shapes
2. Amalia Lindegren paintings
3. Trying to Find a Specific Book on a Post-Work Society
4. Economic end times

November 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 November 22

1. Native American groups
2. Can the law define Pi?
3. Some Sort of Remote Writing Machine
4. Net neutrality
5. "Flags from foreign battlefields"?
6. Did any delegates of the US Constitutional Convention consider specifying a number of Supreme Court justices?

November 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 November 23

1. Irish regional assemblies

November 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 November 24

1. Characteristics of conduct disorder, psychopathy, antisocial personality disorder, biopsychosocial approach and relationship between each and example journal articles
2. Royal Navy pay
3. Why does the UK have to pay for Brexit?

November 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 November 25

1. Catholic Priests / Protestantism
2. How big is the Wikipedia Cabal? Need to know answer for news report on channel 4, tonight at 11
3. Was Pistorius's resentencing permissable under South African Law

November 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 November 26

1. which US presidents from long ago had a reputation for being dumb?

November 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 November 27

1. A question about the images on the page on heraldic attitude
2. What happens when a poet laureate dies?

November 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 November 28

1. How expensive was owning a car in World War 2?
2. Smallest body called "Senate"
3. A Royal conundrum
4. Fake honey from fake bees?

November 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 November 29

1. rosa gravura
2. Macmillan Publishers vs. Macmillan Science and Education

November 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 November 30

1. Why does Uruguay have a high percentage of irreligious people compared to its neighbors?
2. Life estates