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November 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 November 1

  1. United Kingdom embassy not in commonwealth nations
  2. Looking for a film
  3. Subnational entities sharing names with their countries
  4. Countries where pay-first sit-down restaurants are the norm
  5. Presidential Visits in the Year before an Election in the US?
  6. List of all US cities with a population over 10,000?
  7. Feminism
  8. Obama Zombie and similar past incidents

November 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 November 2

  1. bairum khan...of iran
  2. Liliuokalani on film
  3. Clerical dress question
  4. Ulster Resistance
  5. Contemporary autodidacts
  6. N.K.B.
  7. "Phaedon" in Moby Dick
  8. The inherent bias of public opinions
  9. Small c-Conservative and large c conservative
  10. Red grit and blue grit
  11. England political conservative and liberal areas
  12. right wing and left wing france
  13. How can I go about researching the Hobby Horse for an article I need to write on wikipedia for class?
  14. Leaving the euro
  15. Letter bomb attacks against Alois Brunner

November 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 November 3

  1. Islamic New Year
  2. Becoming famous
  3. Is it true that America won every major battle in the Vietnam War?
  4. why does china have such little debt
  5. Relationships and physical/cultural distance
  6. Alaska, United States and Canada
  7. 3 questions about Charles Francis Adams, Jr.
  8. Jewish law

November 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 November 4

  1. Greek opinion polls?
  2. Descendants of Cœur de Lion
  3. How are statutes of limitations good for the people?
  4. Curse of the Hope diamond
  5. What is the term for the verve/initiative/morale/spirit of a group of soldiers that was considered the most important factor in who won or lost a battle, rather than real strategy?
  6. 2nd Indian Mutiny

November 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 November 5

  1. Israel & American policy
  2. Éamon de Valera and the plastic Paddies

November 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 November 6

  1. Forms of address used by literary characters
  2. Ptha
  3. Bible for evolved children
  4. Persecuted Christians & Gays
  5. Are there any Continental Philosophers who are politically conservative?
  6. Executive order for single payer health care
  7. Voices in the head
  8. Can you devalue a currency by more than 100%?
  9. The outer boroughs as the suburbs of Manhattan?
  10. Eugene V. Rostow
  11. Political and Hollywood scandals and the use of lie detectors
  12. Writby

November 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 November 7

  1. The Three Ravens -Suitable Ochestration
  2. Obtaining the Darwin notes from Britain in America
  3. Cook in Hawaii
  4. new ridings in Canadian politics
  5. A. P. Foster & Co.
  6. Which Gray? Which Addison?
  7. Church subsidies

November 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 November 8

  1. French Winning the French and Indian War
  2. Psychological disorder in literature
  3. colonialism in literature
  4. Britain vs. France, late 18th century
  5. Aushev tapes of the Beslan school hostage crisis
  6. Czech Price Signs
  7. Which mental illness did Greenberg had?

November 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 November 9

  1. Dirty lyrics in "trololo"
  2. How to be less racist?
  3. English History - timeline of periods and eras in English History
  4. land confiscation/ landgrab/
  5. Cuban healthcare

November 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 November 10

  1. Carpet plan - Occupation of Germany
  2. a different date for the original USA Thanksgiving
  3. west asian arab turkic people in Canada Census
  4. Incident in the film 21-87
  5. Beothics of Newfoundland
  6. Help in locating poster
  7. Gandhi dancing photo circulating the web
  8. Geographic western half of the Bronx not considered nor treated as part of the original NYC anymore?
  9. Appealing summary judgement

November 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 November 11

  1. Bullet...in Ancient India ?
  2. Organisations giving psychiatric services to US Federal Prisons
  3. INADMISSABLE EVIDENCE - THE JURY - BRITISH TV LEGAL DRAMA
  4. Weather websites
  5. Business Continuity Institute
  6. Voyage autour du monde sur les corvettes Uranie et la Physicienne

November 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 November 12

  1. Musical works for a younger performer or listner.
  2. real or fictional committee?
  3. plan of an inn
  4. Men in Shark
  5. Malicious abuse of parliamentry privelige
  6. Takeup of Gay Marriage
  7. Book about the French Foreign Legion (I think)

November 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 November 13

  1. Children procession
  2. Books about the Renaissance
  3. Gay law in Springfield, MO
  4. Four political parties in Canada before merger of Conservative Party except Bloc Quebecois
  5. Shankill Road chip shop
  6. request a new article on Gerónimo de Villanueva, Marquis of Villalba, member of the ancient family of Aragon, of which kingdom he was Prothonotary
  7. Tahiti Kingdom

November 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 November 14

  1. What's wrong with "technocrats"?
  2. Why shouldn't there be a soundtrack to news footage? Could it be done?
  3. Member States v/s Observer states v/s Dialogue partnership
  4. MFN status: Is it precursor to Free trade agreements?
  5. parliamentary standing commitee v/s departmental standing committee v/s cabinet commitee in india
  6. Frugal person
  7. Adding a picture to my page
  8. Meaning of "Maritimepattu"

November 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 November 15

  1. Opinion polls in Muslim-majority countries about the intervention of NATO in Libya
  2. Western art
  3. Mayor in one U.S state and later, governor of another state
  4. RCMP OPP Toronto police Canada
  5. new definition of British prince and princess
  6. Spectators hired to cheer for a foreign competing team in a sporting event
  7. ww2 convoy sailings

November 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 November 16

  1. Spanish voiceless velar fricative
  2. Ethical consumerism
  3. Business ethics
  4. has anyone had any experience of cooperative learning?
  5. Madame Hoare
  6. When was it, if it even occurred.
  7. In USA, can you lose your money if you marry another person
  8. Jean Barker, Baroness Trumpington
  9. Median Wage in the United States in 1793?
  10. Legal definition of assault
  11. far-right groups in Europe
  12. Llywelyn the Great as Prince of Wales
  13. follow-up on help in locating poster

November 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 November 17

  1. First CofE church?
  2. European culture Muslims
  3. WWII bombing mission commander
  4. Thanksgiving greetings cards
  5. Listen with Mother
  6. Autonomous aboriginal governments in Canada

November 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 November 18

  1. Are sex crimes and immoralities treated with harsher penalties than other types of crimes?
  2. Ancient China
  3. "Reward for information leading to a conviction..."
  4. Provisional IRA spokesman's accent

November 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 November 19

  1. Is there a religion like this?
  2. French in the Leeward Islands (Society Islands)
  3. Incorporating a company under a different name (not fraudulently, just to go by it)
  4. Most girlfriends
  5. Roosevelt at the Tarpon Inn, Port Aransas, TX
  6. Question about artwork

November 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 November 20

  1. E. Hanni
  2. Michael D. Higgins knee operation in 2004?
  3. Trying to track down origin of a “Latin American prayer”
  4. Three-fifths compromise
  5. fairy tale
  6. "The South needs its entire territory"

November 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 November 21

  1. Srečko Kosovel
  2. King of Rurutu
  3. Demonym of Pakistan
  4. King Lear Video Assignment
  5. Muslim Maldives vs. Tourism Maldives
  6. Stick on legal seals:: whats the point?
  7. Medieval universities.
  8. Japan and league of nations

November 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 November 22

  1. Scott vs. Amundsen
  2. 9: The Last Resort
  3. oldest text
  4. Who was the empress?
  5. Britannic Street, Sandy Row
  6. Belgian colonies dutch language in schools
  7. Historic and contemporary politics

November 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 November 23

  1. Are criminals guilty?
  2. How does Louisiana's FLES work?
  3. Sources for paintings
  4. Speed of Circulation of Various US Coins?
  5. Purchasing Power of a Penny in 1793?
  6. Europe nations type of government
  7. Did Luther really get diarrhea from Kosher food?
  8. edgar degas

November 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 November 24

  1. George III to Qianlong
  2. Don't Ask, Don't Tell
  3. Facebook revolutions
  4. the home page says the Kennedy Assasination took place on Nov. 24th...that's WRONG...it was Nov. 22, 1963
  5. Low German houses in America
  6. Why is genealogy so difficult
  7. What form of making a living will not require a rigid schedule?
  8. Origin of a quote
  9. azeri national costume
  10. The diffrent between a picture to a painting
  11. Prime minister belgium italy netherlands spain portugal france norway sweden and denmark
  12. Frances Grey - why was she never Queen of England?
  13. mystic experience: witness to Jesus' crucifixion

November 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 November 25

  1. Mokus or Districts in Hawaii
  2. Biarritz Ceramic Plate
  3. Replacement capitals: United States
  4. Marxism
  5. Loss of Irish historical records
  6. quote search
  7. Short story about a lawyer cheating an naive person from country
  8. Assange extradition case
  9. Modern European monarchies
  10. Toopua island?
  11. Scottish unionists and Scottish separatists and their flags

November 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 November 26

  1. majority government in belgium netherlands norway sweden denmark italy france spain portugal uk
  2. Double standard
  3. Is/was there a country known as the Democratic People's Republic of the Congo?
  4. Prison in Europe
  5. County level education data
  6. United States vote shifting
  7. buying material
  8. Alfred S. Willis

November 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 November 27

  1. One aspect of capital punishment
  2. someone with a good understanding of music and jazz pls answer this question.
  3. China's one-child policy and adoption
  4. adjournment motion in Indian Parliament
  5. Name for this kind of behaviour?
  6. Hawaiian Islands, Liberia and the Orange Free State
  7. Protest over Kashmir Map Controversy at Wikipedia Conference Mumbai 2011
  8. Harvard Citation Style
  9. Most lopsided prisoner-swap not involving Israel
  10. Julius Peter Garesché
  11. Jatiyatabadi Ulama Dal in Bangladesh

November 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 November 28

  1. Euroscepticism in Northern Ireland
  2. Why do they waste champagne at the end of motor races?
  3. What caused the spike in US t-bill bonds in the 1980s?
  4. American Civil War
  5. Michael D. Higgins knee operation in 2004?
  6. Did Rudyard Kipling ever meet Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi?
  7. Christian groups that do not believe that Jesus was crucified?
  8. Name in Buddhism for different ways of not being indifferent
  9. What is the cost of leaving a tv on standby
  10. Use of prefix "my" for British nobility

November 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 November 29

  1. Good modern Muslim role models ?
  2. Classical music: what is an intervention?
  3. Would Basil Hallward be considered a gay man by modern-day standards?
  4. GK Question
  5. Name of item
  6. Political Science - Beliefs versus Opinions
  7. When did Loreta Janeta Velazquez die?
  8. place for posting reader's opinion on content within an artcle
  9. Wikipedia page User talk:Jubault has been changed by XLinkBot
  10. Christianity

November 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 November 30

  1. Multi-state small claims
  2. Countries treating minorities with equality
  3. How does CVS ExtraBucks work?
  4. New France prior to 1663