Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/April 2009

= April 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 1


 * 1) Cultures that don't bow (kneel/ prostrate)
 * 2) Company revenue, net income, and GDP
 * 3) (Un)employment in the Netherlands
 * 4) TREATMENT
 * 5) Frank Hodges
 * 6) Armenia
 * 7) Slavery in ancient times

= April 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 2


 * 1) Cost of a gondola ride in C16 Venice
 * 2) A Story....Is It True? If so, where can I find the article here on wikipedia??
 * 3) The eyes of a Buddha statue
 * 4) "Patriotic retirement"
 * 5) Comparative Wealth of North America versus South America
 * 6) Mace of the House of Delegates (Virginia)
 * 7) atheism
 * 8) Does Robert De Nero play the violin?
 * 9) Accounting General Ledger
 * 10) capital punishment

= April 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 3


 * 1) Magnuson Moss Act New Zealand equivalent
 * 2) Turn of the Century French Ultra Conservatism
 * 3) How to get into the US?
 * 4) e-commerce
 * 5) Troops Attacked By Cavalry
 * 6) Simulation hypothesis and Gnosticism
 * 7) Michelle Obama and First Ladies Generally
 * 8) British unparliamentary language list
 * 9) Economics question on CDs
 * 10) What are some Structuralist books that elaborate on binary oppositions?
 * 11) Muslims celebrate Christmas
 * 12) U.S. Congress
 * 13) Old leaders, young leaders

= April 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 4


 * 1) Dnepropetrovsk maniacs
 * 2) Napoleon I on his Imperial Throne
 * 3) Online questionnaire that tells me who to vote for
 * 4) Shakespeare Biography
 * 5) Powers of US President to influence the Senate
 * 6) Can Fed or State Government seize insurance benefits from inmates?
 * 7) Industrial Relations and Labour Laws
 * 8) ella fillmore lillie
 * 9) Should the whole population of the earth go and settle in the US and Canada, what would be the density there?

= April 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 5


 * 1) Muslim nations ruled by Christians
 * 2) Significance of blue in Pashtun culture
 * 3) Jungdemokraten interwiki?
 * 4) list of genocides
 * 5) South Asia
 * 6) Pyne's royal residences
 * 7) Jonestown
 * 8) What was Jesus' last name
 * 9) National character studies
 * 10) Motion of no confidence
 * 11) Automobile

= April 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 6


 * 1) How wide were the sandy beaches when Columbus, etc. came?
 * 2) Tengu
 * 3) Sheikh Hasina and Benazir Bhutto
 * 4) why do religious groups have the right to associate etc etc but we don't have the right to ostracize them.
 * 5) Another Venetian question - the canals
 * 6) Port Arthur

= April 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 7


 * 1) Joke or anecdote about tiger-repelling stone
 * 2) Ancient Japanese & Chinese's thoughts of the Pacific Ocean
 * 3) i am smashed with a baby in a room
 * 4) Where did I read that there are only N types of joke?
 * 5) The White House and Art
 * 6) Another Köchel question
 * 7) Google Street View
 * 8) Accounting in Europe
 * 9) Falun Gong and the Boxers

= April 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 8


 * 1) Pakistani reserved seats
 * 2) What are the ROI or ROCE for various business sectors?
 * 3) IPRED effects
 * 4) what are some of the worst things the united states has ever done?
 * 5) Deal capture
 * 6) US Senators
 * 7) Dutch government agency for drug approval?
 * 8) charity vs government

= April 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 9


 * 1) Can someone explain Zimbabwe's inflation for an incredulous layman?
 * 2) I'm thinking of a book...
 * 3) Why there isn't any Northeast Indian Independence Protest?
 * 4) what was the first recorded birth
 * 5) Czech Lands
 * 6) has the United States ever done anything of which international opinion is as condemning as it is of the Holocaust committed by Nazi Germany?
 * 7) Trains 'beeping' as they approach stations
 * 8) "Teorema" - dog's name?
 * 9) Sea angling rights
 * 10) British colonization in Hong Kong
 * 11) Christianity misconceptions
 * 12) The future will be better tomorrow
 * 13) Pakistani-Canadian

= April 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 10


 * 1) Next president of Kenya
 * 2) Phoenicians trading with (Great) Zimbabwe?
 * 3) is there a psychological reason for "code names" at companies?
 * 4) Poem
 * 5) Population of Egypt
 * 6) is ninja blinding powder permanent?
 * 7) Baseball Team

= April 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 11


 * 1) Painting: Victorian lady having tea
 * 2) Is there a god of elections?
 * 3) removed question on Obama
 * 4) Historical interest rates for CHF and USD
 * 5) Protestantism

= April 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 12


 * 1) Rodearmel v. Clinton
 * 2) Living long as possible
 * 3) shemale
 * 4) How much Christians were killed during the Holocaust?
 * 5) Is it legal - Not a legal advice, just a question.
 * 6) Problem with Delhi Page
 * 7) William Crookshank - Died 1865
 * 8) 19th Century German Metaphysics
 * 9) Need to write down Hindi script

= April 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 13


 * 1) New South Wales
 * 2) Legend with Hakon and Sigrid?
 * 3) Bible as book
 * 4) Opinion of Sudan People's Liberation Army
 * 5) Fable About Thinking Ahead
 * 6) native american population history
 * 7) Placing blame elsewhere

= April 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 14


 * 1) Kufuor family
 * 2) magazine archives
 * 3) under the gold standard, is it much easier to launder money?
 * 4) Puritan Pilgrims
 * 5) voting machines
 * 6) Normandy
 * 7) UK or European equivalent to paleoconservatism?
 * 8) presidential power and executive orders
 * 9) Portugese traders in the 16th and 17th centuries Japan
 * 10) Public bathroom etiquette

= April 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 15


 * 1) Sindhi new year
 * 2) Goethe Quotations in "The Edge of Heaven"
 * 3) "GC" in a date?
 * 4) Spring has sprung, the grass has riz
 * 5) How many independent countries are there in the world?
 * 6) how do the amish make money?
 * 7) Wage-earning in colonial Spanish America
 * 8) Thatcher's Childen
 * 9) Japan and Germany

= April 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 16


 * 1) police secrets -- so effective it's censored even in the report?
 * 2) Revealing a Psychopath
 * 3) Green Hindu figure
 * 4) First cousins once removed's child
 * 5) Afghanistan History between 1983 and 2000
 * 6) How Many people are evangelical?

= April 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 17


 * 1) Taxation in the United States
 * 2) Lebanese politics
 * 3) Anyone knows of The History of the Nation?
 * 4) Why red shirts?
 * 5) English royal standard
 * 6) St. George's Day
 * 7) Cooking practices of the Tarahumara - do they bake, roast, or fry much?
 * 8) Which is the best type of Gladiator?
 * 9) Religious leaders who have converted
 * 10) Media bias study about Vietnam
 * 11) American Obsesssion with tax
 * 12) Material
 * 13) speeding ticket myth?
 * 14) Functional form of von-Neumann Morgenstern utility function - any help much appreciated !!!
 * 15) Parents' Relations
 * 16) Nuns
 * 17) Nationalities on Titanic?
 * 18) FTSE 100 Index - recent history of
 * 19) Ethics of Parenting

= April 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 18


 * 1) Which crowns are these with Richard III and family?
 * 2) assignment help needed
 * 3) Genesis - Creation
 * 4) What are the chances of a nuclear war in the next 100 years?
 * 5) Why is there no article Islam and communism?
 * 6) Status of post-War German states

= April 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 19


 * 1) Website for finding theme (literature)
 * 2) Best way to stop a prima donna behaving as such?
 * 3) Acronyms in American legislation
 * 4) Opinion polls for European Parliament election, 2009 (Sweden)?
 * 5) Multiple wives/first ladies?
 * 6) Male succession through females
 * 7) American Gothic
 * 8) Peerages of the British Royal Family
 * 9) graph of snowboard sales
 * 10) Queen murdered by soldiers?
 * 11) Why exactly do animal rights organisations campaign for animals that are only born for meat?

= April 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 20


 * 1) military "uniforms" in middle ages
 * 2) Two bank company questions
 * 3) Distribution of non-English Banknotes of the Pound Sterling in the UK
 * 4) what is middle market lending?
 * 5) how do those Somali pirates find ships to hijack?
 * 6) Law: Example of Habeas Corpus
 * 7) Who spoke what language in medieval/Early modern England?
 * 8) Diplomatic immunity
 * 9) religion and philosophy
 * 10) Why do Finns, Poles, Hungarians and Romanians look like white people with a bit of the Mongoloid race added?
 * 11) Long-term treasury bonds
 * 12) benefit concert for commuter airplane crash memorial
 * 13) certainty

= April 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 21


 * 1) galley?
 * 2) Deity as personified concept
 * 3) Racism
 * 4) How do bureaucracies know to act on contracts that are set hundreds of years in the future?
 * 5) Two dynamite trucks on a narrow road
 * 6) Second-hand music sales
 * 7) Freedom of Movement in Hong Kong, Macau and Mainland China
 * 8) German and Soviet clashes in Poland, 1939
 * 9) Lolladoff Plate
 * 10) Hiawatha
 * 11) US Fifth Amendment
 * 12) Successful economic sanctions?
 * 13) Short story about problem-solver that invents nuclear shield, saving earth from potential MAD instigated by alien life-forms to prevent them evolving beyond their control
 * 14) Questions

= April 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 22


 * 1) Working in a foreign country
 * 2) when did people realize Italy was shaped like a boot?
 * 3) Belgium
 * 4) Dystopian Fiction
 * 5) "What If" Book
 * 6) Hamlet and the Oath of the Horatii
 * 7) Size of historical battles

= April 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 23


 * 1) obligations of trustee holding bare title in a deed of trust
 * 2) Film Form vs. Content?
 * 3) "Rosies" and hard hats
 * 4) United Kingdom

= April 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 24


 * 1) To refuse ones book in a library
 * 2) State
 * 3) Paying for oneself
 * 4) Payment Terms
 * 5) Commonwealth Navy ship prefixes
 * 6) Afro-Arabs
 * 7) A Religious Protestant Symbol
 * 8) Puerto Rico
 * 9) Request for on-line copy of Galileo's Dialogue
 * 10) Bassoon trios by Julius Weissenborn
 * 11) Transfer payments within the EU
 * 12) Copyright of Derivative Works of Public Domain Information
 * 13) Mixed culture musical instruments

= April 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 25


 * 1) don't mess with the binding
 * 2) are some kinds of extortion legal?
 * 3) Confucius "With only plain rice to eat and only my elbow for a pillow I find delight in all"
 * 4) Zionist parties outside of Israel?
 * 5) Is there an official list somewhere of areas of inquiry that are not welcome here at the reference desk?
 * 6) English History Question -- What's a Cord Maker?
 * 7) Is Britain already a police state?
 * 8) How do you write with a southern accent from the 1900 in Alabama?
 * 9) Cold War

= April 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 26


 * 1) a colonnaded portico
 * 2) Hadith
 * 3) WESTERN US rail development 1850/1860
 * 4) Sisyphus
 * 5) Robin Cook
 * 6) Peerage and Titles
 * 7) 247
 * 8) Has globalisation replaced God?

= April 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 27


 * 1) 20 Points of Law
 * 2) Barbara Everard
 * 3) Children With 'Illegal' Names
 * 4) Federal Reserve and Bureau of Engraving and Printing
 * 5) sociological metrics/research on racism?

= April 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 28


 * 1) College
 * 2) Board of directors question
 * 3) Where to search online for legal precedents
 * 4) Cities in Guangdong
 * 5) Torture?
 * 6) Painters/artists with the last name Seaman
 * 7) Pork law
 * 8) Sarah Onyango Obama

= April 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 29


 * 1) how to (not) throw out a tenant?
 * 2) Northern regiments and recruits for Confederate military
 * 3) King of the Franks
 * 4) Kurt Grunwald
 * 5) d-day
 * 6) disintegration of soviet union
 * 7) Goliath (WW2 weapon)
 * 8) King Otto of Greece
 * 9) Heiresses apparent to peerage titles
 * 10) Actress from 'Slumdog Millionaire' (the older girl)
 * 11) Japan's Civil War

= April 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 30


 * 1) Cream of the cloth
 * 2) Sedlec-Prčice
 * 3) Soviet politician replaced by stack of books
 * 4) History of Voting Qualifications
 * 5) Ch. 11 bankruptcy...-
 * 6) Changing the spelling in an article's name
 * 7) shareholder voting