Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/April 2010

= April 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 1


 * 1) Question or Query
 * 2) Will there ever be a boy born, who can swim faster than a shark?
 * 3) Bellic reasons
 * 4) Finding the names of my grandfather's parents
 * 5) About my grandmother
 * 6) Who was the first US president to refer to the USA as a democracy?
 * 7) Racial comment
 * 8) Sitting US Presidents as field commanders
 * 9) Is there a difference between didactics and pedagogy?
 * 10) Why is music from the Baroque period so good?
 * 11) Da Pope
 * 12) Communism
 * 13) Did Wikipedia pull an April Fools?

= April 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 2


 * 1) Virginity-Backed Security
 * 2) Destroyed and rewritten manuscript?
 * 3) best health inssurance for preexistent nose trauma/need of reconstruction
 * 4) When did the majority of the US South convert from Episcopalianism to Baptists?
 * 5) Quraysh religion
 * 6) Branches of law

= April 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 3


 * 1) If Japan attacked Russia instead of the USA during WWII
 * 2) Question related to capital punishment in British India
 * 3) American Revolution
 * 4) Personality Disorder Name
 * 5) RGB color ranges for human skin, nails, hair, and eyes
 * 6) Consanguinity
 * 7) Freedom of Speech during American Civil War
 * 8) is it true if you're poor you can't keep a really expensive gift or won item, you have to sell it?
 * 9) What Protestant denomination does Obama currently belong to?
 * 10) What city is this?
 * 11) Christopher Columbus spoke Arabic?
 * 12) When will things in the U.S. seem to have been improving the most?
 * 13) Are there school and university classes in the USA

= April 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 4


 * 1) V-shaped job creation diagram
 * 2) major convention deadlock in the U.S. - provisions?
 * 3) satyagraha
 * 4) Rabindranath Tagore and canvassing for Noble Award
 * 5) The word 'Robotics'.
 * 6) the history of massage and prayer and ritual
 * 7) How was Ulric of Denmark murdered in 1633?

= April 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 5


 * 1) Quotation about vampires credited to "Rousseau"
 * 2) Experimental psychology effect - can't remember name
 * 3) Legal question
 * 4) "In every generation" quote
 * 5) Two writers, Same name.
 * 6) Welfare, race, and the drug war
 * 7) australian war medal/hat medal found
 * 8) small wooden huts off Miami
 * 9) 10, downing street
 * 10) Reference letter vs. Recommendation letter compared to German system
 * 11) War of Attrition original speech by President Nasser
 * 12) Baroque music
 * 13) What happens ad the end of The Ax by Donald Westlake?
 * 14) Loathing of the USA
 * 15) How managers are motivated?
 * 16) Christianity, Judaism, Islam

= April 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 6


 * 1) Wearing opossums?
 * 2) Minority Concentrated Districts in India
 * 3) Bach for bass
 * 4) the idea of 'question and answer' as elements of classical Indian architecture
 * 5) What painting is this?
 * 6) Mail-Order Brides Relationship
 * 7) When does the speed limit apply?
 * 8) "Band of Brothers" at Mont Saint-Michel on 2009-06-05?
 * 9) The Nature, Origin And Purpose Of Man On Earth
 * 10) Rates of abject poverty in the past

= April 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 7


 * 1) Sexual assault
 * 2) Names for Different Positions in Companies
 * 3) Table for comparing religions - similarities and differences
 * 4) Name for economic concept ?
 * 5) Hemidemisemiquaver
 * 6) effect of monopoly power on price discrimination
 * 7) business law
 * 8) Heir whatsoever?

= April 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 8


 * 1) sales etiquette
 * 2) Motorcycles
 * 3) online newspaper subscription?
 * 4) immigrations
 * 5) US Government budget
 * 6) Abrahamic religious texts
 * 7) vote pairing
 * 8) Trying to source a quotation about economics.
 * 9) Politics

= April 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 9


 * 1) Traditions About Moving Into A New Home
 * 2) Question on epistemology
 * 3) Dutch people carrying passengers on bicycles - allowed in England, too?
 * 4) Hair styling: just what is meant by "strand by strand"? Is such literally possible?

= April 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 10


 * 1) imitation of advanced cultures
 * 2) Scottish Road Sign
 * 3) The white van?
 * 4) governing power
 * 5) Citations and copyright infringement
 * 6) Penis sizes in statues and paintings
 * 7) Tail gunner
 * 8) cars in Egypt
 * 9) With a little help...

= April 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 11


 * 1) Daughters of Rebekah
 * 2) displacement
 * 3) The Holly And The Olive?
 * 4) Cargo Cult cooking and manufacturing
 * 5) Online poker in the USA
 * 6) Chief Rabbi of Yugoslavia, 1938
 * 7) What goes on a person meditating?
 * 8) Percentage of non-white blood in American whites?
 * 9) Climate

= April 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 12


 * 1) most affluent city in sub-saharan africa
 * 2) Oldest card game still played today?
 * 3) heritage
 * 4) Albert III of Saxe-Wittenberg, Duke of Lüneburg
 * 5) how do I make a work of art that is epic, hyper-novel, groundbreaking, ambitious, engrossing, a world unto itself, without becoming a parody of itself?
 * 6) Reichsmark Conversion
 * 7) William "Bart" Bush
 * 8) Co-signer removal ____?
 * 9) Homosexuality = Paedophilia? Studies?

= April 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 13


 * 1) Muslim clothing
 * 2) America doesn't have a government?
 * 3) history - John Wilkes Booth, a white supremacist?
 * 4) WTO, World Bank and IMF
 * 5) The Catholic church's influence on pedophilia statistics
 * 6) Masturbation
 * 7) K.L. Lebenau, 1945
 * 8) Attica in the Threepenny Novel
 * 9) Has there ever been an atheist Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court?
 * 10) On Killing (philosophy)
 * 11) Monomyth
 * 12) Medieval married names
 * 13) White people in Africa
 * 14) Copyright or restrictions on PDF-scans of old, now public domain, texts?
 * 15) Blue food
 * 16) Popularity of the EU within the EU
 * 17) William Warham, by Hans Holbein the Younger drawing
 * 18) Tablets of stone
 * 19) Vote counting
 * 20) Queen Elizabeth (Bowes-Lyon) visited France in 1938

= April 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 14


 * 1) Why are Irish folk songs so sad
 * 2) Global business network
 * 3) Can't remember what book this is...
 * 4) Series vs. Trilogy (et al.)?
 * 5) Roman corn
 * 6) Guarding the Tomb of the Unknowns
 * 7) Knowlege
 * 8) Bathing after eating
 * 9) Alice Bailey
 * 10) short stories dealing with books/literature/reading
 * 11) dandelions as weeds
 * 12) Morita Therapy Programs
 * 13) What is it?
 * 14) GK History Geography question
 * 15) Advantages of big countries over numerous small countries?

= April 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 15


 * 1) Zoning
 * 2) Who this in this picture?
 * 3) Wittelsbach heir of the Kingdom of Greece
 * 4) Sculpture of Cleopatra - is that what she really looked like?
 * 5) Hello Wikipedia Administrators
 * 6) Free business cards
 * 7) balloon tying school tuition
 * 8) Keeping us free
 * 9) War
 * 10) USA states - economy question
 * 11) dust cloud
 * 12) "Redmans Hall"

= April 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 16


 * 1) Occupations and musical preferences
 * 2) White people in Caribbean
 * 3) Aircraft accident lists
 * 4) Best thing to say to vagrants in stores
 * 5) Protestant Crusaders
 * 6) Das Kapital Translation
 * 7) Looking for books on employee empowerment in software development companies

= April 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 17


 * 1) Brian of Brittany
 * 2) Months
 * 3) college/university England
 * 4) Lyon King of Arms heraldry question
 * 5) 18+ pubs, discos, etc.
 * 6) Tory party mailing list

= April 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 18


 * 1) No life in the oceans
 * 2) Where should this wikilink point?
 * 3) Norman invasion of 1066
 * 4) Name of a logical fallacy?
 * 5) Practical Aspects of Time Travel
 * 6) Collector of the Port of New York

= April 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 19


 * 1) Where In The World
 * 2) Boy Scouts of America and Evolution
 * 3) Rocky Marciano
 * 4) Wittelsbach heir of the Kingdom of Greece
 * 5) economic growth
 * 6) What do Atheists swear to in court?
 * 7) Reasons for anti-immigration?
 * 8) Applications of involuntary sterilization in the United States in the 1900's, including cases of coerced sterilization.
 * 9) What's the name of this psychological phenomenon?

= April 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 20


 * 1) Who funded McVeigh?
 * 2) Socialism and capitalism (USA vs. world)
 * 3) Socialized schooling and policing in the US
 * 4) The Turtles 1965 line-up
 * 5) GK Question
 * 6) The Chinese ban against google and wikipedia.
 * 7) Why people live where they live
 * 8) how do I develop a sense of rhythm?

= April 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 21


 * 1) modern lifestyle bring more harm than good to us?
 * 2) Native American Culture without European Involvement
 * 3) Immaculate conception of Elizabeth?
 * 4) Gendered unemployment question

= April 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 22


 * 1) Defendants showing up in court
 * 2) What are the big issues in the UK election?
 * 3) what do you call this literary device?
 * 4) Alison FitzEustace's mother
 * 5) Political elite in totalitarian countries
 * 6) UK political journalist, pundit, editor or author?

= April 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 23


 * 1) online psychopath test?
 * 2) Expulsion of fugitives from embassy properties?
 * 3) Why is it inappropriate for children to sleep with their parents?
 * 4) embassy guard question
 * 5) Indian Reservation
 * 6) US of A (counties)
 * 7) award for entrepreneurs

= April 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 24


 * 1) Blue porn
 * 2) Germanic Rome (Modern Rome) versus Ancient Rome
 * 3) Homeless people in UK
 * 4) The Lord of the rings
 * 5) Economy questions - Greece
 * 6) Party support for UK identity cards
 * 7) constableville,ny
 * 8) can someone explain "everybody draw Mohammed day"?
 * 9) all white canadian place
 * 10) A weirdly specific question regarding the Byzantine empire...
 * 11) "Eastern" and "western" religions
 * 12) United Kingdom General election, 2010

= April 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 25


 * 1) Are laws banning same sex marriage sexist rather than homophobic?
 * 2) Christianity and Evolution
 * 3) Why is St george the patron saint of Tamworth ?
 * 4) Forecasts of interest rates
 * 5) Ordnance Survey OpenData
 * 6) Genealogy of Nawab Family of Baroda
 * 7) any way to develop rapidfire speech?
 * 8) Recent lack of credit card balance transfer offers, UK
 * 9) Billy conrad
 * 10) Gold Olive Branch on the Moon sculptor
 * 11) Are authoritarians such because they have discontinuous minds?
 * 12) More about North Korea
 * 13) Nepal - what kind of republic?

= April 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 26


 * 1) Death of Asclepius
 * 2) countries that are not labelled as Socialist, but pretty much are... can anyone help me find examples?
 * 3) about: article titled "Hidden within Technology's Empire, a Republic of Letter "
 * 4) Dahmer's grandmother and father
 * 5) Ideas for presentation on teamwork
 * 6) Why is pedophilia so reviled?
 * 7) Hungarian language
 * 8) Philosophical debate
 * 9) why do words change? why is there lexical change?
 * 10) Why is there so much Euroskeptism?
 * 11) How did some Native Americans migrate to the Bahamas?
 * 12) Language Variations
 * 13) Knight, Death, and the Devil question

= April 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 27


 * 1) Why are people (namely, the majority of Americans) content with being ignorant?
 * 2) Mesopotamia versus Egypt
 * 3) Historical Macbeth Versus Shakespares Macbeth
 * 4) Worship of dogs
 * 5) Use of the word "Kamikaze"
 * 6) Geography question
 * 7) Psychology and careers
 * 8) When did involuntary sterilization practices in the US end?
 * 9) Ashes in cremation

= April 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 28


 * 1) After 6000 years
 * 2) Germans in colonial Louisiana
 * 3) how to read the koran
 * 4) Original source of "I prefer rogues to imbeciles, as rogues sometimes rest" (Dumas)
 * 5) United church of christ
 * 6) Marsh land in Southern Iraq
 * 7) Can you help me with a sonnet?
 * 8) Alexander the Great
 * 9) GK question
 * 10) February 1974 Queen's Speech
 * 11) In a million years time
 * 12) Identity of Roman statues

= April 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 29


 * 1) Utensils used for writing in the 1890's
 * 2) Attaining Siddi (or Siddhi)
 * 3) Worship of the snake

= April 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 30


 * 1) Breaking the law
 * 2) List of oil spills
 * 3) Girl Scout question
 * 4) Was China ruled by Africans?
 * 5) corn
 * 6) Triumphal Way
 * 7) UK election results?
 * 8) Chinese poems, direction of reading
 * 9) Upside down maps
 * 10) religious compass
 * 11) French (?) people who lost their jobs to machines
 * 12) Comparison of railway travel times from central London
 * 13) Antichrist quote... what does Nietzsche mean?