Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/April 2008

= April 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 April 1


 * 1) analogue for folk etymology?
 * 2) What firearms were used in the American Civil War?
 * 3) Shan Yu
 * 4) How to word a disability examination of a knee?
 * 5) Changing concept of the child
 * 6) The Curse of the Pharaohs
 * 7) Disarmament in Afghanistan
 * 8) How quickly can a team of doctors or forensic pathologists examine a fresh massacre site for signs of rape and mutilations?
 * 9) Tsar Nicholas
 * 10) Jefferson in Boston?
 * 11) Hebraisms, the New Testament and the Book of Mormon
 * 12) Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 April 1
 * 13) Usage of Nazi-era sources by postwar German historians
 * 14) Woman on the stage in Germany
 * 15) martinique 1762
 * 16) Concept of the Devil

= April 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 April 2


 * 1) Law factors
 * 2) Trying to identify a painting
 * 3) Dunbar Robbery Page, Cite Help!
 * 4) British Navy and Spanish Civil War
 * 5) Rules of being a good Muslim
 * 6) Stuka effectiveness
 * 7) Female Pilots
 * 8) Football (soccer) Clubs in world stock markets.
 * 9) Are Americans worried of recession?
 * 10) Fascist style
 * 11) Okhrana
 * 12) Collier's June 8, 1956 George Barkentin's model.
 * 13) Medical Records release - State of Michigan
 * 14) Why no slave revolt in the United States?
 * 15) French thinker: lost name

= April 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 April 3


 * 1) Antonin Dolohov
 * 2) yinyang symbol
 * 3) about the Hashsashin...
 * 4) Groundhog day quote
 * 5) Tito as dictator
 * 6) FINANCIAL MARKETS
 * 7) division of indian states
 * 8) obamas speeches
 * 9) Spanish empire and the abolition of slavery
 * 10) Meiji Revolution
 * 11) Churchill's warnings
 * 12) More about naturist children
 * 13) asbestos pipe
 * 14) Pop/Rock without the lead guitar
 * 15) British officer shakos, Peninsular War
 * 16) world war I
 * 17) CAN YOU HELP ME WITH A SONNET?????
 * 18) Black Dom
 * 19) Law disclosure
 * 20) What's wrong with prostitution?

= April 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 April 4


 * 1) fraud and copyright
 * 2) Wall Street Journal and science
 * 3) Hillary Clinton
 * 4) Tito and the crisis of 1956
 * 5) Islam and terrorism
 * 6) Foch quote
 * 7) Who was the father of science fiction?
 * 8) Matthias Daniel Pöppelmann or Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann
 * 9) historical misconceptions
 * 10) The West Wing

= April 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 April 5


 * 1) policy record
 * 2) Islamic versus Jewish perception of the law
 * 3) Non Aligned Movement
 * 4) Portuguese in East Africa
 * 5) Cromwell and Prince Rupert
 * 6) This is extremely confusing
 * 7) creativity
 * 8) the most cruel statement
 * 9) Persecution of Kosovo Serbs
 * 10) Ustase race policy
 * 11) Speech
 * 12) Brazil
 * 13) British awards to French and Belgium Cities
 * 14) Verb: to truffle
 * 15) Burning heretics
 * 16) Eastern front in the first world war
 * 17) National languages in Punjab Pakistan
 * 18) All Souls
 * 19) Armenian troubles
 * 20) Screw-guns
 * 21) Is there a social science journal for undergraduate students?
 * 22) Anglo Portuguese Alliance

= April 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 April 6


 * 1) a la Victor Frankl
 * 2) Question about history.
 * 3) Graduate school admission criteria
 * 4) Russian questions
 * 5) Accusing Kruger
 * 6) Portrait of a Lady
 * 7) Serious Question
 * 8) Build the Titanic magazine
 * 9) "From his cold dead hands"
 * 10) Central powers and the March Revolution in Russia
 * 11) Child law
 * 12) Make Money off your land

= April 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 April 7


 * 1) Saints Lives
 * 2) What is this Jimi Hendrix song
 * 3) Jesus in the Bible
 * 4) US and free markets
 * 5) Renewable energy
 * 6) Tibet and Palestine
 * 7) Isidor?
 * 8) Tax Question (claiming a student)
 * 9) Chaucer and Boccacccio
 * 10) Magda Goebbels
 * 11) James Watt’s date of death
 * 12) Ethical food?
 * 13) John Locke's Theories of Government
 * 14) Philip Mannes in Theresienstadt
 * 15) Schapelle
 * 16) FBI Archives on the Communist Party USA
 * 17) what language did the builders of Stonehenge speak?
 * 18) Looking for History and or Pictures of Covered Bridge at Frogtown Road on the Pequea Creek
 * 19) Fami;y Law Act
 * 20) Constructing the nation
 * 21) Native Americans burning people at the stake
 * 22) Sawmill
 * 23) Marriage Annullment in Canada

= April 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 April 8


 * 1) "Freest" society ever
 * 2) civil rights acts of 1957 and 1960
 * 3) Les Misérables Quotation
 * 4) London borough coat-of-arms
 * 5) equity share in standerd medicals and pharmasuticals ltd (question moved from help desk)
 * 6) Fransisco de Miranda in France
 * 7) Suleiman the clot?
 * 8) A Wise King?
 * 9) Philosophy questions
 * 10) Possible Islamic Influences In The Design of Sleeping Beauty Castle
 * 11) When did "Nice to meet you" replace "Glad to know you" as the preferred introductory reply?
 * 12) Sartre's drug induced crisis
 * 13) Jacques Chirac on Iraq
 * 14) Bavarian Flask from Bavaria with grasshopper holding a hat trademark
 * 15) Ma'alaya
 * 16) Signet Rings
 * 17) Name of a Hindu God
 * 18) High school band bus crash
 * 19) left-handed calligraphers
 * 20) How to serve warm beer?

= April 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 April 9


 * 1) Death and the VC
 * 2) If I convert to Judaism and become a Jew, I'm still Asian and Thai American or not?
 * 3) would it be possible to do an IPO with shares that are worth 0% of the company?
 * 4) Why Tuesday?
 * 5) Polygamy
 * 6) Tax definition
 * 7) Rochester the puritan
 * 8) Islam god's Kingdom
 * 9) Questions from Princepality of Hut River passport holder
 * 10) Murdoch and Canetti
 * 11) resemblance
 * 12) Orley Farm
 * 13) Master Slave Dialectic
 * 14) Magda Goebbels II
 * 15) Youngest age of legal marriage -- how real was this
 * 16) Value added tax
 * 17) Yorkshire Ridings

= April 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 April 10


 * 1) Stories within stories
 * 2) Dual county seats
 * 3) Gasoline Prices
 * 4) J.J.J Tissot
 * 5) William Essex (author)
 * 6) Iconic photograph
 * 7) statehood within the United States and ambassadors
 * 8) Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 April 10
 * 9) I think therefore I am
 * 10) Battle of Kiev
 * 11) Browning and Strauss
 * 12) Macedonia
 * 13) Self identity
 * 14) Financial Markets - Azerbaijan
 * 15) Death of Bayezid I
 * 16) Canadian Legal Definition of a Public Space
 * 17) Pipeworks toy
 * 18) Ethics vs. Morals
 * 19) Date of death
 * 20) Copyrighting
 * 21) Countering code talkers

= April 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 April 11


 * 1) Escanaba in da Moonlight
 * 2) John Yoo and the National Lawyers' Guild
 * 3) Corporate government
 * 4) Poland and the Outbreak of the Second World War
 * 5) Gorky story
 * 6) US recognition of a UDI before Kosovo?
 * 7) Companies greater than GDP
 * 8) Deterministic excuses
 * 9) Murdoch and Marxism
 * 10) Overleaf
 * 11) Who does this Indian picture represent?
 * 12) Wagner the Philosopher
 * 13) Tolstoyan view of history
 * 14) Dead Sea Scrolls
 * 15) Hume and Mills
 * 16) The symbiotic relationship between the media and the government.
 * 17) A low-powered radio broadcaster for the spies?

= April 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 April 12


 * 1) how much would a train ride cost from budapest to paris
 * 2) Cherry tree and Washington
 * 3) Bogus surnames on the Census list
 * 4) Heraldic question
 * 5) Peter Stuyvesant
 * 6) Theyness
 * 7) Kant and Religion
 * 8) Mussolini and Hitler
 * 9) BBC Radio 4
 * 10) Eichmann
 * 11) Pakistan, North Korea and Iran
 * 12) Unincluded holy scriptures Jewish/Christian
 * 13) Roccasecca: To which territory did it belong in 1225
 * 14) Kemal and 1914 war
 * 15) CSA a one-party state?
 * 16) Queen Christina's sexuality
 * 17) Colin Powell, Torture, and Ambien

= April 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 April 14


 * 1) Sovereignty definitions
 * 2) Pre-amalgamation Ottawa
 * 3) Translations of Dream of the Red Chamber
 * 4) Court Hierarchy
 * 5) Accounting expression
 * 6) Post-modern revolution
 * 7) Congress and Amritsar Massacre
 * 8) Organisations looking forward to human dieback
 * 9) François Mitterrand
 * 10) Engelism
 * 11) Heidegger and language
 * 12) Presidents and recessions

= April 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 April 15


 * 1) Why does the sun make people happy?
 * 2) What's so bad about pandemics?
 * 3) Majahapit civilisation
 * 4) Colette and religion
 * 5) Death
 * 6) Lenin and bureaucratic decay
 * 7) Osama Bin Laden
 * 8) Marlborough coat of arms
 * 9) Pope's Airplane
 * 10) Resourceful Tips to be a Qualified Cartoonist?
 * 11) JeffreyLotusSan
 * 12) Specialized Prison Cells
 * 13) Loveable characters from literature

= April 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 April 16


 * 1) Woman and money
 * 2) Meat on Fridays
 * 3) Practitioners of Magic
 * 4) homestead exemption
 * 5) Famous quotes
 * 6) english boarding schools for girls
 * 7) Lohr and the Greek Resistance
 * 8) The deaf in the ancient world
 * 9) Hell is an empty desk
 * 10) Smersh
 * 11) Page on Norwest Venture Partners
 * 12) Schlecht und Reu
 * 13) Anti Human Trafficking/Anti Slavery Groups in S. America
 * 14) Caesar's gold
 * 15) diplomatic immunity
 * 16) List of magna opera (magnum opusses)
 * 17) Nietzsche and learning to love
 * 18) nina gladnitz
 * 19) George Eliot
 * 20) British Embassy in Israel
 * 21) Ratification and signing of treaties
 * 22) Existentialism and Fascism
 * 23) Penises and Presidents
 * 24) Stock Market

= April 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 April 17


 * 1) Does anybody know where i can get the piano sheet music for tubular bells???
 * 2) Statz
 * 3) world's wealthiest ethnicities?
 * 4) guam history perspectives ed by carter lee d
 * 5) Sculptor sought
 * 6) Anti-Semitism during the period of the Nazi-Soviet Pact
 * 7) X years to life
 * 8) Can you Forgive Her
 * 9) Colonies that went independent
 * 10) Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 April 17
 * 11) Polarization
 * 12) Walter Blume's Chaos Theory
 * 13) Fridays
 * 14) new mexico
 * 15) Northern Jews

= April 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 April 18


 * 1) Oil
 * 2) Ladies of the Bedchamber
 * 3) Gas Prices
 * 4) Israel memorial candle
 * 5) Is there Orthodox Islam?
 * 6) Zhukov at Stalingrad
 * 7) Hitler and Stalingrad
 * 8) Unternehmen Zitadelle
 * 9) Chhatrapati Sivaji Maharaj's letters to Mirza Rajah Jaisingh
 * 10) Cup and reality
 * 11) Foucault's methodology
 * 12) SUPER POWER
 * 13) Military Performance
 * 14) Is there any "official" biography of Osama Bin Laden?
 * 15) Indian Illustrators
 * 16) Court clerk
 * 17) Cross-examination
 * 18) Where do people live? (coalesced similar questions)
 * 19) Book recommendation for someone who is grieving the loss of a parent
 * 20) Yogurt
 * 21) Capital of the Illiterate
 * 22) McCain's plan to roll back federal gas taxes

= April 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 April 19


 * 1) What is the average salary of a middle-class Indian in India?
 * 2) National Bank of Poland
 * 3) Tony Blair
 * 4) date of birth of contemporary garden author alex dingwall-main and bio
 * 5) greatest extent of roman empire
 * 6) Who was this painter?
 * 7) question about crime
 * 8) Detailed tree diagram depicting the major religions
 * 9) Price of bread
 * 10) Henry III and Edward the Confessor
 * 11) journalism through other people's skins
 * 12) Henry Ford
 * 13) Nietzsche and Wagner
 * 14) Worst poems and poets
 * 15) Train passes in the Uk
 * 16) George Orwell
 * 17) quest
 * 18) Existentialism "Cure"

= April 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 April 20


 * 1) Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 April 20
 * 2) Year founded?
 * 3) Blacks in the hippie movement
 * 4) Racism in Conrad
 * 5) Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 April 20
 * 6) Future of the European Union
 * 7) Pascal's Wager vs. the Problem of Hell
 * 8) Rudolf Carnap and Wittgenstein
 * 9) How is it possible there was history between 1918-1920?
 * 10) Barbarity and Civilization: Can't find this quote!
 * 11) crime
 * 12) The anonymous pianist
 * 13) Economic solutions
 * 14) How to create and write your own music

= April 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 April 21


 * 1) Peace of Prague
 * 2) 12th Royal Lancers, post Waterloo
 * 3) Armenian Diaspora in US question
 * 4) Copyright Question Concerning Titles
 * 5) Choral piece with female voices
 * 6) Tibet and Nukes
 * 7) Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 April 21
 * 8) SUPER POWER
 * 9) Kierkegaard and ethics
 * 10) Private insurance against poverty
 * 11) God is dead
 * 12) Existentialism and loss
 * 13) Who said?
 * 14) Who is a nazi?
 * 15) German attack on France
 * 16) the poorest.
 * 17) John McCain
 * 18) Luck and what we are

= April 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 April 22


 * 1) Pantheism
 * 2) aeneid
 * 3) pre bank interesr rates
 * 4) Judaism
 * 5) God, Logic, and Omnipotence
 * 6) Short term over long term
 * 7) Paris Commune of 1871 and the Law of Hostages
 * 8) Mortgage crisis and help from the government
 * 9) Body and soul
 * 10) I am not a racist but...
 * 11) judiciary
 * 12) Calendar Riots
 * 13) Altered artifacts
 * 14) How wrong can you get?
 * 15) Characters you hate
 * 16) Soviet Union and the Munich Crisis
 * 17) Word for the object used in a murder (old legal word)
 * 18) Paying Volunteers
 * 19) World leaders
 * 20) a couple of geographical questions

= April 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 April 23


 * 1) durability of book coverings
 * 2) Animated map of the progression of human societies
 * 3) can somebody help me find this piece of music
 * 4) Vietnam War
 * 5) Lenin and Marx
 * 6) Yao De-Fen worlds tallest woman
 * 7) Impossible question documentary art world society infiltrator scam artist SOLVED by Pharos
 * 8) Forms of address in 16th century Venice
 * 9) Fair discrimination
 * 10) Fox Hunting Toffs
 * 11) Abdication Crisis of 1936
 * 12) The Last Riding Master
 * 13) Dutch-language book
 * 14) Roman executions of rulers
 * 15) A French alternative to Sartre
 * 16) Iris Murdoch
 * 17) The Gordon riots
 * 18) Recent Bills/Issues in the German Parliament (Bundestag)
 * 19) James, Viscount Severn's godparents

= April 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 April 24


 * 1) Pursuit of happiness OR happiness
 * 2) First existentialist author
 * 3) Her Majesty's Indian Service
 * 4) Criticising Wittgenstein
 * 5) Bishops called Bishop
 * 6) Russell and Wittgenstein
 * 7) Anne Boleyn
 * 8) diplomatic immunity
 * 9) natural resources of Canada
 * 10) news article
 * 11) Execution of Marie Antionette
 * 12) The name al-Tustari
 * 13) Philosopher of power

= April 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 April 25


 * 1) belly button
 * 2) Study abroad scholarships
 * 3) Erasmus in Spain
 * 4) Red Hat society?
 * 5) Socializing across social classes
 * 6) Philosophy
 * 7) Stalin's blindness
 * 8) Christianity and the dead in the middle ages
 * 9) What is MAOISM?
 * 10) Population of Palestine prior to the Arab/Muslim Conquest of 640
 * 11) Frederick and Adolph
 * 12) Argument to the best explanation
 * 13) German Army - World War II
 * 14) Genealogy of Lucien Wolf
 * 15) Jobs in Rural Areas

= April 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 April 26


 * 1) North Korean Opinion on Chinese Socialism since 1980s
 * 2) Southern star
 * 3) Problem of Poverty
 * 4) Origin of the days of the week
 * 5) Can vegans use bone china?
 * 6) Moving companies sell lists of new addresses to marketers?
 * 7) Women in American Politics
 * 8) Mugabe and Zimbabwe
 * 9) A good war?
 * 10) Economy and voting in Canada
 * 11) Postage stamp value
 * 12) superstition
 * 13) Grammatical Revolutionary-War question
 * 14) Violence against women
 * 15) Assisted reproductive technology
 * 16) friend or enemy
 * 17) Logical Atomism
 * 18) Proportion of the world with a high school diploma

= April 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 April 27


 * 1) Schooling in America
 * 2) Truth
 * 3) emperor maro
 * 4) Prison violence
 * 5) The West Wing
 * 6) Richard II, royal power and divine right
 * 7) Instruments and instrument players going extinct
 * 8) Three life expectancy questions
 * 9) Message left on WT:Reliable sources
 * 10) Chicago
 * 11) Birds In Reference To Eyeglasses
 * 12) Examples of non-Russian high profile people in Soviet Union
 * 13) Master of Hestviken FAMILY TREE
 * 14) William Blake illustrations for "Paradise Lost"
 * 15) Reporter's Day
 * 16) Logic of Coalitions

= April 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 April 28


 * 1) Fear of reprisal
 * 2) playing in the street
 * 3) Older art (war based)
 * 4) Is Islam sometimes considered an Eastern religion?
 * 5) Why do some people in the Middle East don't know Western culture?
 * 6) No More Heroes Any More
 * 7) Tibet
 * 8) Wittgenstein at Cambridge
 * 9) Can I vote anywhere? Does my opinion mean anything?
 * 10) De Beauvoir and Genet
 * 11) A play about amputees in garbage cans
 * 12) Tailoring question about shirts
 * 13) Search for two phrases
 * 14) ShareAlike copyright question.

= April 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 April 29


 * 1) Why is my ethnicity (Thai, Thai American) classified as Other Asian and not a separate category like Chinese, Filipino, Cambodian, Laotian, etc?
 * 2) art terminology
 * 3) church loyalty
 * 4) roman citizenship
 * 5) Social consensus
 * 6) Unknown artists
 * 7) why the sudden change of topic captain?
 * 8) Fashion in Greece and Rome
 * 9) Youth in Ancient Rome
 * 10) Remote
 * 11) Trying to find a certain Rev. Jesse Jackson speech
 * 12) Presidental election
 * 13) Gruffydd ap Llywelyn Fawr
 * 14) Scottish coat of arms
 * 15) Iris Murdoch and existentialism
 * 16) Antisocial behavior in U.K.
 * 17) Economic Stimulus

= April 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 April 30


 * 1) Sculpture identification
 * 2) Why is there so many questions about WW2 Germany here?
 * 3) History of England
 * 4) Hitler and astrology
 * 5) Tractatus and Philosophical Investigations
 * 6) Physicalism in philosphy of mind
 * 7) How to obtain an equipment trust certificate
 * 8) Theoretical and Critical Significance of Post-Structuralism today?
 * 9) Landreneau, France Is it ancient history, or exists today?
 * 10) Credit default swap