Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/August 2008

= August 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 1


 * 1) Essays on Insurance Industry
 * 2) Who was Prince Maqhubu Dlamini?
 * 3) turkmenistan
 * 4) Looking for a term used for a type of person
 * 5) Lineage and possible inherited disease questiom
 * 6) German cultural institutions in Prague
 * 7) Forced population shifts in Biblical period

= August 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 2


 * 1) Antigone the Play
 * 2) Stock movements in earnings season
 * 3) DBZ
 * 4) US Senate
 * 5) USS Nimitz
 * 6) Bengali Muslim surnames
 * 7) Scientology inspiration
 * 8) Officer-elect

= August 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 3


 * 1) Death of a presidential candidate
 * 2) Pizza Hut and McDonald's
 * 3) Is Michael Stone (psychiatrist) American?
 * 4) Nudity question
 * 5) Indians head bobbing while speaking

= August 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 4


 * 1) Western Wedding Customs Question
 * 2) Free historical trading data
 * 3) Would United States help Australia in a War?
 * 4) Mohammed
 * 5) Dramatic choral piece
 * 6) California's name change by usage method
 * 7) Did George VI ever have a coronation portrait?
 * 8) Ismene

= August 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 5


 * 1) Why is Sweden considered the most irreligious?
 * 2) Extra Terrestrial Contact - USA Government Reaction?
 * 3) Number of computers
 * 4) What's profitable about common stocks that don't pay dividends?
 * 5) Futher nudity question

= August 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 6


 * 1) Art for the Beatles Magical Mystery Tour Album
 * 2) silver trophies
 * 3) 31st April

= August 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 7


 * 1) Contemporary Authors
 * 2) Isis adventure
 * 3) Among the liberators of the Auschwitz KL
 * 4) Canadian Idenity
 * 5) What's gonna happen to Obama's senate seat?
 * 6) Religions seeking temporal immortality

= August 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 8


 * 1) Us Presidential yachts
 * 2) Why does Russia support Ossetian Independence?
 * 3) Who is Bishop Ron Woods Jr.

= August 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 9


 * 1) Fining an estate
 * 2) What might "K.H." stand for?
 * 3) calculating millionaires
 * 4) Klangfarbenmelodie or not?
 * 5) Was Charlemagne declared Roman Dictator?
 * 6) Web/blogs on insurance industry to assist in assignments
 * 7) Russian peacekeepers in South Ossetia
 * 8) Bengali Kshatriya
 * 9) Afro-Arab
 * 10) Kierkegaard on television
 * 11) If the stock exchange is like a casino, where is the roulette?
 * 12) Making summaries, abstracts and indexes as a profession
 * 13) Name of piece of music
 * 14) Sodomy

= August 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 10


 * 1) Even further nudity question
 * 2) Carriage  1920 Circa
 * 3) has  a binding contract been formed between New-Wheels Ltd and Easyclean for the sale of the van at £12,000.
 * 4) Whites living in South Africa
 * 5) Historical Occupation
 * 6) Elizabeth II and the british and predecessor royal familiy
 * 7) How did Hamlet kill the king?
 * 8) leteratures

= August 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 11


 * 1) Jacquelen Kennedy Onassis
 * 2) History of violence
 * 3) What flag/symbol is this?
 * 4) US State
 * 5) Circles of Hell
 * 6) Germany's municipal library and WWII
 * 7) Killing people
 * 8) WWII and the theft of a priceless chest

= August 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 12


 * 1) japan's stand on unconditional aid.
 * 2) The Crown
 * 3) Source for quote
 * 4) Muslim pet owners
 * 5) Nazi photo manipulation?

= August 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 13


 * 1) Assam and Maulana bhasani
 * 2) What was the "travel-bureau" mentioned in Jack Kerouac's "On the Road"?
 * 3) Joseph Stalin
 * 4) Rite of Spring Groups
 * 5) Carolyn Kennedy
 * 6) (American view of Russians)?
 * 7) Caroline B Kennedy Schlossberg

= August 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 14


 * 1) What legally constitutes a parade?
 * 2) Name of Children's Picture Book
 * 3) Witch Trials in Sweden
 * 4) Trading on an American exchange
 * 5) Wendigo
 * 6) King Arthur and the Dark Age.
 * 7) The worm will turn
 * 8) Painter Identification
 * 9) Dark Age History
 * 10) Six Exercises of a Scholar

= August 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 15


 * 1) Wole Soyinka - Background and Friezes
 * 2) Iranian Religions
 * 3) Series 7 Exam vs. the CSC
 * 4) United Kingdom defence spending
 * 5) Disney aid
 * 6) Two Olympic Questions
 * 7) Breuner Airfield
 * 8) technology and its impact on unemployment

= August 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 16


 * 1) concession fees
 * 2) Can't remember what it's called...
 * 3) Diminishing marginal utility of education
 * 4) Who was Zhongyin (仲尹)?
 * 5) Mulatto Arabs
 * 6) When beinb discharged, how would military label field of op. for covert work?
 * 7) German Vordiplom in the UK or US
 * 8) Wigan
 * 9) Law question

= August 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 17


 * 1) Historical hair: men's top knot
 * 2) Term White in US Surveys
 * 3) Huns in Europe
 * 4) Porn model rape
 * 5) Question: Comprehensive Resource Providing Profile/ID of Corporations and Organizations
 * 6) Finding a sculptor?
 * 7) Sand castle
 * 8) London 2012 - games of the XXX Olympiad
 * 9) history of 'year' dating
 * 10) bloodmoor suffolk england

= August 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 18


 * 1) geography
 * 2) Ulster Plantation
 * 3) Can Musharraf be judged and receive a death sentence?
 * 4) Ancient government systems
 * 5) How easy is it to get a job in the EU outside the UK and Ireland if you only speak English?
 * 6) Biblical Prophecies

= August 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 19


 * 1) oil paintings
 * 2) Quote!
 * 3) Why do many men prefer blue eyed, blonde women with pale skin?
 * 4) 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
 * 5) Poverty and prosperity
 * 6) Long Feet
 * 7) Esso & CAA

= August 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 20


 * 1) re Russia/Georgia conflict
 * 2) Executive power
 * 3) Question!
 * 4) Roman Empire
 * 5) law question
 * 6) Meaning of life?
 * 7) first aid
 * 8) Russia's threats regarding the missle defense base in Poland
 * 9) Liberal Democratic Party of Russia

= August 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 21


 * 1) Conservatism in the United States
 * 2) Family History
 * 3) Dead body outlined in chalk at a crime scene
 * 4) 1005
 * 5) What's Dalai Lama's nationality?

= August 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 22


 * 1) Cousheries
 * 2) Historical estimates of marginal propensities to consume
 * 3) Counsel's notebook
 * 4) What is Shiv Sena stand on gays in Mumbai

= August 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 23


 * 1) date of Jewish New Year 2008
 * 2) Ancient Rome capital punishment
 * 3) Nihilism
 * 4) Dia de los Muertos
 * 5) Nastia Liukin
 * 6) Politician attributes
 * 7) Mystery airplane
 * 8) Political system without new laws (ie. unchanging consitution)?
 * 9) Denmark and its shape
 * 10) What is the average size of a woman's breasts?
 * 11) Non Residents Pakistanis, Indian and Sri Lankans

= August 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 24


 * 1) How culture and language contributes in the making of nationalism?
 * 2) Did Ancient Egypt control any part of Asia?
 * 3) Barack Obama's "Present" Votes
 * 4) Russian shirt - Dr Zhivago...
 * 5) Military Uniforms
 * 6) Organizational behavior management program
 * 7) Who memorized Homer?
 * 8) Turning 100 bucks into 1 million
 * 9) What is the easiest way to get a job in the UK?
 * 10) Keeping surname after marriage in Spain
 * 11) Avast, mateys
 * 12) crucifixion
 * 13) The Holocaust after the Holocaust
 * 14) name of liability law code

= August 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 25


 * 1) India
 * 2) The Sinking of the Lusitania
 * 3) Happy Third Humanities Desk Anniversary!
 * 4) Raising the Chinese flag
 * 5) Viking Helmets
 * 6) Diplomatic immunity for governors of provinces in Ancient Rome
 * 7) Discriminative Discount?
 * 8) Movie Name
 * 9) Marguerite de la Roque

= August 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 26


 * 1) Question about an Italian monk (or priest) who built an aqueduct in the 1960s in Africa
 * 2) Slayer rule for titles?
 * 3) Christian Universalism
 * 4) Kievan sculpture story, please
 * 5) how HR is profitable to any company````
 * 6) Canadian politics
 * 7) God's Kingdom and Islam
 * 8) Tafsir Bible?
 * 9) What is used in making Plaid Decorator Glaze?
 * 10) Image at royal.gov.uk, Two kings shaking hands
 * 11) Software Trademark Law

= August 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 27


 * 1) Lovecraft/Cthulhu Mythos.
 * 2) WTC steel cross
 * 3) Hearing aids
 * 4) Government sans parties
 * 5) The electoral college (USA)
 * 6) Identifying 17th century portrait painter
 * 7) Constitution Party (United States)

= August 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 28


 * 1) Prophet Daniel
 * 2) Oldest epic found
 * 3) PALOMA - Mascot of the 1968 Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City - a white on black dove or a red jaguar?
 * 4) Workplace environment restrictions
 * 5) US GDP Inputs - % Breakdown?
 * 6) Why is Jeffrey Dahmer a murderer of children?
 * 7) Americans with health insurance denied coverage
 * 8) Communal politics.
 * 9) When is there only a judge and when is there a jury?
 * 10) the angel of the lord

= August 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 29


 * 1) Barack Hussein Obama's Name
 * 2) GPL and Works of the Federal Government
 * 3) Sources on the social history of England in the high middle ages
 * 4) Friendships

= August 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 30


 * 1) Economies of scale in philanthropy
 * 2) Christian Universalism in Sydney
 * 3) Guinness
 * 4) Public nudity in the United States
 * 5) Constitution of India
 * 6) In Roman time
 * 7) Name of a Greek Citizen in Ancient Greek Society and his occupation
 * 8) from Beyond Good and Evil
 * 9) Loking for information about the roles of a police officer, probation officer within the youth offending serice please.

= August 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 31


 * 1) Large Religious Faction absent from the Christianity Portal
 * 2) Public domain MP3OGG JapaneseChineseGreek music for download?
 * 3) Eurasians in Japan
 * 4) Odd vote in a U.S. political convention roll call
 * 5) Who do you think you are?
 * 6) Greek to Turkish
 * 7) ALGER HISS
 * 8) Last year of peace in recorded history? Was there really ever one?
 * 9) Old Norse litterary/ historical reference for "Blokumannaland"
 * 10) What are the world's earliest known silly songs?
 * 11) Open Flag