Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/April 2015

= April 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 1


 * 1) Army and Navy Rank Insignia
 * 2) Is it Academically Acceptable to Make Your Own Qualitative Research Method Based on Existing Ones?
 * 3) Bicorne de l'Académie française
 * 4) How do I solve this problem on fair pricing of shares?
 * 5) Apparently this "Jenny N.E. Dotz" was a prominent acting figure of some sort, but why do we not have her?
 * 6)  Why are there still OLD people in OLD pictures?

= April 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 2


 * 1) Far-right
 * 2) Lusitania
 * 3) Where will I find a safe haven from the coming economic collapse?
 * 4) Is there a third way of measuring and reward the value of work?
 * 5) Claims in "18 Signs of High Emotional Intelligence"
 * 6) Sports which women excel over men
 * 7) Do humans have a "natural habitat"?

= April 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 3


 * 1) Why is there no Ferdinand II of Castile?
 * 2) Retention of Flag after Restoration
 * 3) Jehovah's Witnesses and the cross (or in their case, the stake)
 * 4) General Election - Voting
 * 5) Abbreviations in Latin missal
 * 6) Is Rhetorical Analysis/ Criticism Applicable to Social Science Research?
 * 7) Costa Concordia and Germanwings disaster insurance
 * 8) words printed on chicken

= April 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 4


 * 1) Is anti-positivism against the mathematical formalization of the social sciences?
 * 2) Art Deco relief on a house in Bucharest

= April 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 5


 * 1) Synchronized periods
 * 2) Civilization
 * 3) Germans
 * 4) In public online

= April 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 6


 * 1) Religious deaths
 * 2) The Rape of Nanking
 * 3) Valuable natural resources
 * 4) How far apart were English towns and fiefs in the early 19th century?
 * 5) Which countries or cities are using biodegradable shopping bags?
 * 6) Chinese (PRC) law

= April 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 7


 * 1) Friend zone
 * 2) Central Asia and Eastern Europe
 * 3) What percentage of the total male population have been convicted of a crime? Is the number lower for women?
 * 4) "Animals live in a hell of which mankind are the devils."
 * 5) Why isn't the United States part of the Commonwealth of Nations?
 * 6) Does the christian bible give any advice on the issue of cohabiting but not marrying?

= April 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 8


 * 1) Stereotype
 * 2) Associate monarchs
 * 3) Money question

= April 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 9


 * 1) Is the life insurance contract toast?
 * 2) Turkmen
 * 3) Cielito Lindo
 * 4) How do gays and lesbians become couples?
 * 5) Political campaigns
 * 6) Election voting in the uk

= April 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 10


 * 1) David Cameron question
 * 2) What are the dropout rates of school children in Guangdong and other provinces in China?
 * 3) A question for territorial evolution
 * 4) Why does it matter if Jesus was married or not?
 * 5) Jail holding cells in the 1930s/20s?
 * 6) Basic cookbook written in Italian language

= April 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 11


 * 1) Hume on EM spectrum
 * 2) Equestrian statues with female riders
 * 3) Vintage article by Prof. Toumanoff
 * 4) Do deaf people install telephones in their homes?
 * 5) 7 days
 * 6) Driving

= April 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 12


 * 1) Contingency money
 * 2) Is a MOOC “degree” worth putting on your resume?
 * 3) Alexandra Rose Day

= April 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 13


 * 1) "Walk of Shame" song
 * 2) Jehovah's Witnesses bible studies
 * 3) pruning the dynasty
 * 4) Paying employees in hard currency
 * 5) Recording of FDR speaking German?

= April 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 14


 * 1) Equivalents to Ivy League, Oxford and Cambridge Universities
 * 2) Buckingham Palace
 * 3) Website for DDB Needham Life Style Surveys?
 * 4) Daily E-mail News Briefs

= April 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 15


 * 1) Who uses the high hardness pencils?

= April 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 16


 * 1) Non-Roman Catholics in the UK

= April 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 17


 * 1) Philosophical question
 * 2) Three Bible questions

= April 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 18


 * 1) Why do colleges charge prospective students just for applying?
 * 2) handwriting exercise in different languages
 * 3) European Handwriting
 * 4) Recording devices in courts
 * 5) Women in Love
 * 6) Ibn Battuta portrait

= April 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 19


 * 1) travelling in the Regency period
 * 2) 1990s Childrens Book
 * 3) Homeless people in America
 * 4) State Pension
 * 5) Middle Ages
 * 6) Iraqi military medal?
 * 7) Grand Duchess Marie-Adélaïde and the Germans in 1914
 * 8) UK general election

= April 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 20


 * 1) US Police Statistics
 * 2) Soviet Union-Vietnam mutual defense treaty
 * 3) Literature: Deliverance (novel)
 * 4) Hitler and the Antichrist
 * 5) What does "half-cent sales tax" means?
 * 6) Word for "acorns turning to ducks"
 * 7) Biggest artic expedition

= April 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 21


 * 1) Fingerprints on Driver's Licenses
 * 2) Why don't Lutherans make the sign of the cross the norm?
 * 3) Is there a male equivalent to "Fallen Women"?
 * 4) Reading the Epic of Gilgamesh

= April 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 22


 * 1) Maps
 * 2) Nicaraguan civil war
 * 3) A good critical history or two of early Islam along the lines of Biblical criticism

= April 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 23


 * 1) Louis XV of France and George I of Great Britain
 * 2) Three supreme gods
 * 3) US Civil War
 * 4) an icebox in the Andes
 * 5) Is box office revenue for a film before interest, overhead, and taxes?
 * 6) Religions/denominations which do not disclose membership statistics/number of adherents
 * 7) Major-General Sir Frederick Hallett
 * 8) Comcast/TWC merger bombs, good or bad for CCV?

= April 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 24


 * 1) Is a first professional degree in Juris Doctor equivalent to an advanced bachelor’s degree?
 * 2) transcribing a musical score from hearing only
 * 3) New York and Appleton's

= April 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 25


 * 1) Art object identification
 * 2) Dignity, Glory & Honour
 * 3) Cheshire and Flintshire historic placenames

= April 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 26


 * 1) Lion in symbolism
 * 2) India and Mount Everest

= April 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 27


 * 1) Why did the British transport convicts to Australia but not to Canada?
 * 2) God, the Devil, Opposite and Equal
 * 3) Cheap vs. expensive cola
 * 4) Exchange member & broker
 * 5) Armed Policing in England & Wales

= April 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 29


 * 1) Have street gangs ever been recruited to help enforce a curfew before?
 * 2) Use of police firearms in Northern Ireland
 * 3) Where does the food go?
 * 4) Is SES a predictor of the hookup culture?
 * 5) Edith of Wessex

= April 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 30


 * 1) Revenge and Punishment
 * 2) Good Without God