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October 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 1

  1. Women on boats
  2. Identifying an author

October 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 2

  1. A Sexual Odyssey: From Forbidden Fruit to Cybersex
  2. Ebola transmissibility
  3. Greek mythology question
  4. Mythology and Religion:
  5. Queen Elizabeth II and her different realms

October 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 3

  1. Arc of Life
  2. Immigrants in Russia
  3. Patton quote
  4. Order of the seven days of the week vs. order of the seven Ptolemaic planets

October 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 4

  1. Products sold with contracts
  2. Surname of Prophet Moses, Jesus and Muhammad?

October 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 5

  1. Error mitigation:
  2. Assurance required.
  3. Binge drinking in young people

October 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 6

  1. Jimmy Dore said that a study determined that cops (when they were younger) were either bullies or were bullied
  2. Public domain in the UK

October 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 7

  1. Is there a formula for how much rent to charge?
  2. Einstein quote

October 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 8

  1. What counts as a "native language" or "native speaker" in a bilingual household?
  2. Numbering of English kings

October 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 9

  1. elected Cabinets?
  2. World Wide Win

October 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 10

  1. Humor identification
  2. Election of the Philippine Senate through Panachage
  3. How/why/when did "European civilisation" become the global default?
  4. US Presidents, having won only a minority of states
  5. Names of the Drekkanas, and/or other decans

October 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 11

  1. Sci-fi story about life-forms from the Earth's mantle
  2. What was the form of village government in Imperial China?
  3. Poverty and resource rich countries
  4. Is the slogan "We are the 99%" trademarked or in the public domain?
  5. How can you possibly be libertarian and socially conservative at the same time?
  6. Lesbia - Clodia
  7. OECD and Romania, finding data on economy
  8. David Roediger, editor of The Little Red Songbook, compilation of Wobbly songs
  9. Diminished capacity to consent and sexual assault
  10. Marxist Theological Dialectic
  11. How successful were ostiaries in keeping non-Christians out of the church during the Eucharist?

October 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 12

  1. Why isn't the US in the Inter-Parliamentary Union?
  2. EU's CEFR English Profile availability and licensing
  3. When, Where and Who ?
  4. South America
  5. James Francis Edward Stuart
  6. Study and practice of modern medicine in China between 1940-1985?

October 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 13

  1. Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof
  2. Distances in Orange County
  3. Stock Market Investment class
  4. Is the name "Citizen Four" a reference to anything?
  5. Kwaggaberg
  6. Painting seen in a TV episode

October 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 14

  1. Free buffalo
  2. Do I want to move to Milton Keynes?
  3. Vehicle towing/recovery industry (A history): South Africa
  4. Economic, social, and cultural rights
  5. Blood types and how it relates to race and ethnicity
  6. Pollution and privatization
  7. Police Driving Through Red Lights
  8. "Blind Corporation"
  9. Error needs fixing
  10. Scopus-archived journals for ethnomedicine article
  11. Age at which an IRA / Roth IRA is started
  12. Were African Americans allowed to vote in the 1960 US Presidential election?
  13. MJ's ambulance
  14. Development of neopaganisms in a post-Christian environment and ancestor worship

October 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 15

  1. Gothic short story with lady in white
  2. Pluralism and distribution of power.
  3. Museum of Berlin
  4. murderers and communion
  5. Is it true that Singapore is the only surviving citystate in the world?

October 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 16

  1. possessives
  2. Question about WW1 and WW2.
  3. Is Jane Eyre a Quaker, or is she Quaker-like?
  4. Are Jewish converts who happen to be transmen circumcised?
  5. I have a wiccan question

October 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 17

  1. Why are horoscopes drawn backwards?
  2. Is a nurse allowed to date a (former) patient's child?
  3. Albert Pearse
  4. Comparison: Movie '300' with 'Da vinchi code' Book

October 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 18

  1. Cavalry
  2. Historical name
  3. Did segregation in the 1950s America affect Asian-Americans and Asian immigrants?
  4. "Poor people (in 1st world countries) are poor because they are not aspirational"
  5. Regarding Rabindranath Tagore
  6. Goodwill (accounting)
  7. Did Chisso executives really go to jail?
  8. WW1 Question (I think)
  9. 'Living on air' fairy tale

October 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 19

  1. Does Confucianism fall under Secular Humanism?
  2. Mediatrix of All Graces
  3. Anonymous sources and journalism ethics

October 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 20

  1. Easter Island: Historical Low Temperatures
  2. Old Chinese object
  3. History of the motto of the Royal Society
  4. Khwarazmian dynasty and "work unions"
  5. Difference between a Credit Union and a Building Society

October 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 21

  1. England expects that every man etc. Why not Britain?
  2. Peirce and Bergson
  3. Why does the CIA World Factbook consider South Africa a developed country which by their definition means 'high income or 1st world' economy?

October 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 22

  1. Question about Iliad and Odyssey
  2. Ben Bradlee and the Iran-Contra affair
  3. Is there death sentence for first-degree murder in Iraq?
  4. Bren Gun

October 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 23

  1. West African burial practices
  2. drunk Shakespeare scenes
  3. Jewish early childhood ritual
  4. Pluralism and Politics
  5. Celtic painting
  6. Problems of literature
  7. How many people are secular and atheist in the Western sense of the term in East Asia?
  8. Intra-NATO war

October 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 24

  1. Abstracting electricity in Scotland

October 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 25

  1. Hop on - Hop off cruising
  2. Caliphate after Ottomans
  3. First European to set foot on modern-day USA
  4. How much formal logic and mathematics would you have to study if you focused on continental philosophy?
  5. Heaven and Hell: Judaism

October 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 26

  1. Viewers?
  2. MADELINE O'MALLEY
  3. Sodom and Gomorrah considered from the obvious, down to Earth, atheist view?
  4. Bill Gates' philanthropy partly to keep litigation against Microsoft at bay

October 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 27

  1. Ida Scott's singing teacher
  2. Gambling with other people's money
  3. Value of French livre in mid-17th century
  4. Lion, Falcon and the Wolf/Jackel
  5. Is there a time boundary between a new religious movement and an older religion?
  6. Have there been attempts to secularize Christianity?
  7. Domesday Survey Map

October 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 28

  1. Israeli ministers Mizrahi sephardic 1948
  2. Muslims and the Koran
  3. Panda are Tibetans
  4. New York Times West Side Plant
  5. Account registry of Louis XIII's household

October 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 29

  1. third largest diplomatic mission
  2. ISIS recruits
  3. Social class just prior to the Communist era in China?
  4. Talmudic (?) quotation

October 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 30

  1. Architectural terminology

October 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 31

  1. Fiction story ID