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October 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 October 1

  1. What happened to the Bloomberg Channel?

October 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 October 2

  1. Soviet bomber off Cape Cod
  2. Carl Sagan's 1985 novel "Contact"
  3. Elizabeth II tax arrangements
  4. u.s. presidents who only attended their own inaugurations

October 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 October 3

  1. Freireligiös

October 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 October 4

  1. Smallpox blankets
  2. Hagia Sophia re-mosqueing, scholarly refs
  3. Gladstone's father
  4. Folklore about Viper Reproduction

October 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 October 5

  1. Richard Bennett, Canadian Prime Minister, his manners and temperament

October 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 October 6

  1. The Little Mermaid cow's head vandalism
  2. legal options regarding defamation/libel/insult/comparable offense in the following situation
  3. Do anti-mask, pro-vaccine people or pro-mask, anti-vaccine people exist? (COVID-19)
  4. What state did Khosrovidukht live in?

October 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 October 7

  1. Who should form a new War Cabinet? MPs in the smoking room, April 1940
  2. Where can I find these cards?
  3. Pakistan journalist Aroosa Alam
  4. Citizenship of Abdulrazak Gurnah?

October 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 October 9

  1. Why was no American executed for slave trading besides Nathaniel Gordon?

October 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 October 10

  1. Moss Rose murder

October 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 October 11

  1. "I stuffed their mouths with gold" - Bevan and the consultants

October 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 October 12

  1. Page numbers
  2. Who was the Alfred Rose who sponsored Rufus Isaacs when he took the oath?
  3. Chinese acquisitions of US companies
  4. Letter by Philo Cleveland

October 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 October 13

  1. political neologisms in different nations
  2. Cabo Verdean natives

October 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 October 14

  1. driving anxiety
  2. Horror Compilation Book from 1980s
  3. Artist: "Tomi"?
  4. What's the term for a petro nation?

October 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 October 15

  1. royal ancestry

October 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 October 16

  1. USA federal law question - employment.
  2. History of 20th and 19th century navbox

October 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 October 17

  1. Insubordination spy agency related
  2. Werewolf Book from 1980s - Juvenile Horror Series
  3. officers in historical society
  4. Requesting help in one more ref
  5. Murano Island - Venetian glass
  6. JSTOR article

October 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 October 18

  1. Dr Beeching and the Trouble House coffin
  2. Edmund Kean's date of birth

October 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 October 19

  1. O Captain! My Captain! and Nelson
  2. Strong's Hebrew word 7853 in Psalms 38:20?
  3. Tradition
  4. WADA sanctions and chess

October 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 October 20

  1. Rudolf Walles(z)
  2. Are Shiva and Vishnu more important/revered than Brahma in Hinduism?

October 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 October 21

  1. What gongs is Lloyd George wearing?
  2. Why do many communist countries have standing committees instead of permanent parliaments?

October 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 October 22

  1. Turkish to English, an encyclopedic synopsis request
  2. Turkish to English, an encyclopedic synopsis request 2
  3. Architectural term for a specific door arrangement needed

October 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 October 23

  1. Central Council for the Care of Cripples
  2. Why is this gun shield a stepped frustum with a slit instead of an unstepped frustum with a slit?

October 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 October 24

  1. The Great Pyramid of Giza: 8 sides, or 4?
  2. is donald trump the most consequential single-term president in u.s. history?
  3. Describing a Knight move

October 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 October 25

  1. Roud Folk Song Index and Child Ballads nr in the WP:LEAD of articles about songs
  2. History
  3. 1904 Portrait

October 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 October 26

  1. When did "case" of beer first mean 24 beers?
  2. The last parade of the Rhodesian Guard Force
  3. Importance of fishing industry in South China Sea
  4. Murder and Helena Normanton
  5. American post boxes

October 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 October 27

  1. Apron part names
  2. Citing Wikipeda

October 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 October 28

  1. Number gestures article missing
  2. Names of The Devil?
  3. Who designed the copyright symbol?

October 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 October 29

  1. Home schooling
  2. Estimated casualties of dam collapse
  3. Sodom's sin and Ezekiel
  4. "Fellow" at US universities?

October 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 October 30

  1. Is this a historical image or a fake one?
  2. 1940s illustrator in the Radio Times
  3. Differences between American and British sign language
  4. mysterious sculpture
  5. Can we get broader feedback on NHS Test and Trace?
  6. Did an obscure Dutch rower take this photograph?

October 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 October 31

  1. Idiomatic translation