Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/April 2016

= April 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 1


 * 1) Can anyone get a better, original source for the newly discovered Etruscan-language slab?
 * 2) Multiple sources say different things, what to do?
 * 3) What happened to London in 1784?
 * 4) People who have served in all three branches of a U.S. state government
 * 5) City as center of affluence or poverty
 * 6) Research origin of a signet fingerring or seal

= April 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 2


 * 1) Augustus II the Strong
 * 2) President of the United States and the 22nd amendment to the Constitution
 * 3) Named yellow
 * 4) Persons who  held a public office in two different countries

= April 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 3


 * 1) Art work featured on the TV show "The Catch"

= April 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 4


 * 1) Why did the abolition of slavery prove so difficult and divisive?
 * 2) "First official census of England"?
 * 3) Hillary Clinton and Benghazi

= April 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 5


 * 1) Unpledged
 * 2) Cyprus peace process and international arms sales
 * 3) Geo coors

= April 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 6


 * 1) Mesoamerican trade
 * 2) W.A.C.A. 29a-A50
 * 3) Syrett's "The Royal Navy in European Waters During the American Revolutionary War"

= April 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 7


 * 1) Saul Krugman
 * 2) "And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself."
 * 3) Text in patents that has expired
 * 4) British pound sterling

= April 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 8


 * 1) adagio in g minor instrumentation
 * 2) Two-on-one duels?
 * 3) Did feudalism exist in early 19th century Britain?
 * 4) Are there health insurance companies in Britain?
 * 5) Plugged nickel
 * 6) Forelocks
 * 7) One of the notable Portals? Justin Welby's mother

= April 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 9


 * 1) Male heterosexual prostitution

= April 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 10


 * 1) Who was the Spanish explorer "Francisco Lazcano", and why doesn't he have a Wikipedia article?
 * 2) Identyfing Railway Stations
 * 3) Schutzstaffel  "ᛋᛋ"
 * 4) Is the mountain in the L.L.Bean logo a specific mountain?

= April 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 11


 * 1) Saddam Hussein
 * 2) What was the political party composition of Congress when Obamacare (Affordable Care Act) was passed?
 * 3) Alaplı,Ereğli and surrounding areas

= April 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 12


 * 1) Heads of government who couldn't occupy their official residence
 * 2) Is gender a social construct?
 * 3) Why do British monarchs nowadays just marry their own people?
 * 4) Virtue signalling
 * 5) Who represented the USA government at the Tear Drop Memorial Ceremony in 2006?  (Obama wasn't President then)
 * 6) Why would a pastor solemnize a marriage between a Catholic and Protestant?

= April 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 13


 * 1) Are there any online public records or databases for birth dates and death dates?

= April 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 14


 * 1) XKCD and architecture
 * 2) Western University Pics - Guess the Uni

= April 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 16


 * 1) Word
 * 2) English agricultural collapse
 * 3) Dating a globe
 * 4) J Blackmun
 * 5) Roman temple of the Clemence
 * 6) What sect of Islam Muhammad Iqbal had followed?

= April 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 17


 * 1) Does Wikipedia have an article about transgender people and bathroom laws?
 * 2) Winston Churchill and bombing of London

= April 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 18


 * 1) jamatv
 * 2) A (Forced) Farewell to Arms?
 * 3) "Select device manufacturers have not been willing to provide Gorilla Glass model verification."
 * 4) The difference between these two cases of disagreement
 * 5) The Experience Project
 * 6) Countries changing names
 * 7) US (external, foreign, public, intragovernmental, total etc.) debt
 * 8) Why are MSM so highly at risk for STDs?
 * 9) What's up with no smoked sausages in chippies in London and is there one that does?

= April 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 19


 * 1) The difference between these two cases of disagreement (redone)
 * 2) Countries named after their rulers
 * 3) Europe Travel describing
 * 4) Isles of Scilly & Lord Lieutenant

= April 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 20


 * 1) A developing city and its old, cheap apartments
 * 2) Sievern and Johann Andreas Wagener in South Carolina

= April 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 21


 * 1) Lynvoya Jackson
 * 2) Nae Ionescu
 * 3) Indigenous Communities and Negative Effects of Resource Extraction
 * 4) Violet Piercy
 * 5) Other than the Germans and the Jews, exactly which other ethnic groups immigrated *by the millions* to their/their ancestors' original homeland?
 * 6) Laws and court cases regarding automobile rims

= April 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 22


 * 1) Was the moneyless system thing originally a democratic invention?
 * 2) Theogony and the classical Greek myth timeline

= April 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 23


 * 1) What key is the BSG "Apocalypse" theme in?

= April 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 24


 * 1) James Robert Porter
 * 2) Lion d'Argent inn, Calais

= April 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 25


 * 1) The Yemen/al Qaida lava lamp
 * 2) George W. Bush; War on Terror; NSA; Homeland Security; Government surveillance
 * 3) Special Drawing Rights (SDR) Exchange Rate
 * 4) If the pope misbehaves, then who is in charge of his job?
 * 5) Point Island

= April 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 26


 * 1) What's the most developed country that beats these?
 * 2) Stamp
 * 3) Hillsborough inquest
 * 4) On the national register of historic places, but no photo?

= April 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 27


 * 1) About James Robert Porter (agan)
 * 2) Elizabeth II's citizenships
 * 3) looking for the source of a quote attributed to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
 * 4) On popes resigning and returning
 * 5) The rise of the Canadian dollar

= April 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 28


 * 1) Acting US Attorney
 * 2) Religion
 * 3) Legal citation for a chunk of the US Code

= April 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 29


 * 1) what is this kind of frame called
 * 2) Families of African Leaders

= April 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 April 30


 * 1) Medieval Charters from Northern French Communes?
 * 2) Aquitaine
 * 3) Turkey
 * 4) Kazakhs, Turkmens, Kyrgyz, and Tajiks in USA
 * 5) Economy - are low interests for savings account a global thing?
 * 6) "No" in Japanese names
 * 7) Hinduism and Buddhism