Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/August 2009

= August 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 1


 * 1) Why didn't Europeans die from a lack of immunity to diseases in the new world?
 * 2) Business question: Joint parenthood for companies?
 * 3) Pilgrimages, succession, infighting
 * 4) Kronos's palace vs. Valhalla
 * 5) Charles I of England's "tyranny"?
 * 6) Flat caps & baseball (cricket too?) caps
 * 7) Why is Berkshire Hathaway stock so expensive and who buys it?
 * 8) Thailand
 * 9) Bohemond I of Antioch
 * 10) Profit is not a four-letter word
 * 11) Wagner's Das Rheingold
 * 12) Locating an old rail line
 * 13) Divorce Rate among Christians and Atheists

= August 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 2


 * 1) An earth without humans
 * 2) The name
 * 3) Methodism = Puritanism?
 * 4) British Isles diaspora studies
 * 5) Avignon Papacy & Counter-Reformation Catholicism
 * 6) Austria vs Prussia
 * 7) relatively recent Japanese short-story collection with S&M themes
 * 8) Legislators mass resign and recontest?
 * 9) Roman Senate assembly
 * 10) Crusader military order ethnicities & the Reformation

= August 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 3


 * 1) Henry VIII's dual titles and powers: precedent?
 * 2) Should athletes taking Stimulant be banned from competition forever?
 * 3) Dover, Connecticut
 * 4) Himmler speech
 * 5) Slave owners after abolition
 * 6) Acting as a national leader
 * 7) Rosencratz and Guildenstern in Act 2 Scene 2 of Hamlet
 * 8) Serbian coat-of-arms identification
 * 9) Army's traditional use of American Indian tribal names for its helicopters
 * 10) Royal veto in the UK
 * 11) John Kufuor's graduation
 * 12) Judaen monarchy

= August 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 4


 * 1) Agricultural maps of England & France
 * 2) American Cities
 * 3) History topics regarding Shanghai, China
 * 4) Ordinary buildings in Ancient Greece
 * 5) WWII
 * 6) The Plantagenet Inheritance
 * 7) The Culture of Privacy in Britain
 * 8) 90% of content is created by 10% of editors
 * 9) Death of one person = death of the world
 * 10) THERE IS NO INFORMATION ABOUT COPAS FARM, LONDON

= August 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 5


 * 1) Lancaster (& Tudor) and York
 * 2) Best NYC Photospots
 * 3) U.S. Senate quorum calls
 * 4) Civilians on Apache AH-64D
 * 5) Salvation Army
 * 6) Personality tests in careers recruitment
 * 7) Qing Dynasty bronzes and the sabotaged auction

= August 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 6


 * 1) "At your desecration"
 * 2) Woman in the Catholic church
 * 3) Critical thinking and logical thinking
 * 4) Constitutional Requirement(s) to Stand for Election to the Office of the Vice-President
 * 5) Falerii
 * 6) adoption in 11th-12th century Judaism
 * 7) unemployment numbers
 * 8) Ratio of mean average and median average incomes

= August 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 7


 * 1) Execution Reactions
 * 2) What was the name of the Republican Hispanic Supreme Court nominee?
 * 3) Lieutenant Zumwelt
 * 4) product testing
 * 5) deity
 * 6) corruption
 * 7) The health effects of prayer

= August 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 8


 * 1) What if there is no majority and minority???
 * 2) Luxembourg's electoral system
 * 3) God's apprentices
 * 4) Theory of getting rich
 * 5) Divorce in ancient Rome

= August 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 9


 * 1) Permanent budget bills
 * 2) Granville Roland Fortescue
 * 3) Religion, Succession and Monarchy
 * 4) Marginal valuation
 * 5) Independence and Recognition of Countries
 * 6) Why are different, seemingly disparate political views (seemingly) correlated?
 * 7) What novel was this?
 * 8) Sales of the Bible versus sales of the Qur'an
 * 9) Non-hearers of information
 * 10) Lucius Aemilius Paulus Macedonicus#Family life and descendants

= August 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 10


 * 1) Non Bourbon
 * 2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:O%27DowdArms.jpg
 * 3) Racism Israel
 * 4) The influence of birth and sexual order in large families
 * 5) exact location in North Carolina
 * 6) Maureen Mwanawasa

= August 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 11


 * 1) For people to be train to be a nurse
 * 2) Occupation of former royalty
 * 3) What do you call temperature sensitive cloth/embroidery/manufacturing...?
 * 4) What's the term for using something as a tool outside intended use?
 * 5) Sexual abuse: trauma in adults and children
 * 6) Information about Evan John, author.
 * 7) study of racism in young children
 * 8) Alexander Dubček - western propaganda about this once leader of Czecheslovakia?
 * 9) What have the eastern terrorists got against the west?
 * 10) Where did the wealth of the British royal family come from?
 * 11) $ from a cow
 * 12) Royalty

= August 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 12


 * 1) Starting a political consultancy in India
 * 2) Purpose of cylinder at back of Renault FT-17 tank
 * 3) Jewish homosexuals adopting children
 * 4) Select Retail Holdings Limited
 * 5) Do non-Christians children have piggy banks?
 * 6) Marquis de Crecy 1800s
 * 7) collection of poems
 * 8) Split Duchies
 * 9) Value of a bee hive
 * 10) Working on my book again...
 * 11) How does SWIFT work?
 * 12) Oldest New Testament copy

= August 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 13


 * 1) Danish princes and princesses
 * 2) Meles Zenawi's skin so tan
 * 3) Satan, Lucifer and the Bible
 * 4) PRESIDENTIAL AND VICE PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION
 * 5) Less known cutting-edge authors from around the world
 * 6) Sri Lanka
 * 7) Blue Roofed Buildings
 * 8) Allied Bombing in WWII
 * 9) Polity IV and Freedom House
 * 10) Why does Paul Biya look so young
 * 11) More on US presedential succession

= August 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 14


 * 1) Danish titles
 * 2) What sort of photographic processes are these?
 * 3) Best investment
 * 4) Cross-party voting in US federal elections
 * 5) Opposition to health care reform in the US
 * 6) olympic cities
 * 7) Robert Mugabe suspect of killing people?

= August 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 15


 * 1) Islamization in Ancient Mongolia
 * 2) Church use of popular music
 * 3) Abdoulaye Wade's famous shaven head
 * 4) What is the difference between empiricism and mechanistic materialism?
 * 5) Bangladesh student wing
 * 6) Christ killers
 * 7) Credit card merchant fees
 * 8) Dhabihah and hunting

= August 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 16


 * 1) What's REALLY the oldest profession?
 * 2) US Social Security numbers
 * 3) Are poor people in USA really buying homes?
 * 4) What cartoon is this describing?
 * 5) Hideous mermaid image
 * 6) Why'd they rename it Dominican Republic?
 * 7) What was Hitler's opinion of Republicanism?
 * 8) List of Libraries
 * 9) Using debit or credit card in supermarket - how much info can they get about me?
 * 10) Agricultural Subsidies
 * 11) UK's action in Turks and Caicos Islands
 * 12) Is there really a TV news station?

= August 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 17


 * 1) List of Arts and Sciences
 * 2) Indonesian ballot paper of 1955
 * 3) meaning of ww2 japanese submarine designations
 * 4) Looking for a Captain Cook work
 * 5) Tracing the movements of George VI of the United Kingdom
 * 6) Terms of the lease of the New Territories, Hong Kong
 * 7) White vs. APL family
 * 8) islamic monks?
 * 9) Elections of Kenya and mozambique
 * 10) Does Congress (in the US) have a source control system for the actual words going into a bill?
 * 11) Mexican vs. white interracial marriage
 * 12) citing music
 * 13) Judaism Ethnic divisions vs. denomination
 * 14) Districts of West Bengal versus religion

= August 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 18


 * 1) North Americal Aboriginal Treaties
 * 2) Caucasian Eyes
 * 3) rotten vegetables at protests and theater
 * 4) Danish titles
 * 5) Logical fallacy: Good or bad based on who does it?
 * 6) Is there any religion where there are two good Gods?
 * 7) Ethnic groups of India vs. Buddhism
 * 8) Bangladeshi Buddhist
 * 9) Wikipedia sentient?
 * 10) 16th century
 * 11) Latin Language in Hieroglyphic Bible

= August 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 19


 * 1) Queen Rania of Jordan
 * 2) What novel was this?
 * 3) Order in the next ten minutes!
 * 4) Relations
 * 5) Social responsibilities
 * 6) Reasons Behind Structure of Names
 * 7) The first Women suffrage?
 * 8) Opportunity cost
 * 9) How would the Black Plague have impacted Native Americans, Australians?
 * 10) Map of Napoleon's trails
 * 11) white people to have a darker skin tone

= August 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 20


 * 1) Education system in Bangladesh
 * 2) World Trade Center site
 * 3) Scipio the younger death (129 BC)
 * 4) Economic state of Britain, circa 1965-68
 * 5) Mass murder in Ancient Rome
 * 6) us life expectancy by quartile?
 * 7) Dancing about architecture
 * 8) Uganda and Senegal election
 * 9) Displaying flag

= August 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 21


 * 1) hair care during WWII
 * 2) Anselme Lavigne
 * 3) Should religion be separated from the Humanities Reference Desk?
 * 4) Napoleon's burial arrangements
 * 5) No survivors of Unit 731?
 * 6) Historical woman
 * 7) Greek orthodox church
 * 8) Image - story behind it

= August 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 22


 * 1) Entrepreneurship/business question: the success of iTunes
 * 2) Truths which are allegedly created by opinions about what the truth is
 * 3) War Declarations
 * 4) Focus on premarital sexual relations in Abrahamaic religions
 * 5) What is a "scripture reader"?
 * 6) Cum Natura Humana

= August 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 23


 * 1) Internal heirarchies in Venetian guilds
 * 2) Since popping over to Europe to save the day with the help of a smart, gorgeous sidekick isn't a viable career option . ..
 * 3) Siege of Petropavlovsk
 * 4) Pretending that an author is still alive
 * 5) How best to spend £1000000 to increase the sum of happiness the most?
 * 6) Can anyone identify this obscure anti-smoking parody song?
 * 7) Ten Commandments and Gentiles
 * 8) Bad person, who is a "Bad person"

= August 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 24


 * 1) Success at University for Private and State School Pupils
 * 2) Vasily Zaitsev
 * 3) Islam in the Kings of Georgia
 * 4) Libertarianism and inheritance law
 * 5) Falcon
 * 6) Globalization

= August 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 25


 * 1) taxing in US and EU for website based in India
 * 2) U.S. Social Security benefit entitlement for a former, non resident, spouse.
 * 3) General interest question: numbers of ministers in governments
 * 4) Questions about Georgian royal succession
 * 5) will this startup work?
 * 6)  Question The Biggest
 * 7) How many arts and sciences are there in the world
 * 8) WWI History question on Misc desk
 * 9) John 3:16
 * 10) Scholarship abroad
 * 11) Prison riot in Kentucky
 * 12) Ancient Greek Theater

= August 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 26


 * 1) Direct reports VS Functional reports
 * 2) Cook vs. Lewis (1951), Canada
 * 3) Role and status of women under the Franco regime in Spain

= August 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 27


 * 1) Malvinas Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean - Territorial platform of Argentina
 * 2) Oldest active law
 * 3) US Civil War
 * 4) Turtles and Elephants
 * 5) tort law(english)
 * 6) Pan Am Flight 103 Question
 * 7) Weird date in a contemporary document
 * 8) Black people's birth rate & big households?

= August 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 28


 * 1) Architectural style of church
 * 2) References for Winston I. Nunes
 * 3) Cutlery illegal for under 18 in UK?
 * 4) Legal status of public sex
 * 5) Unusual looking "hats" in pic
 * 6) Most important battle in history
 * 7) how similar are japanese culture and korean culture?
 * 8) Captured US soldiers during the Iraq War 2003
 * 9) Sociology of wiki
 * 10) The Mounties always get their man . ..
 * 11) Western dress code in Ottoman Balkan?
 * 12) The first theatre and actors in Estonia

= August 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 29


 * 1) Biblical misquotes (article:  Rabbi)
 * 2) california labor law
 * 3) Crypto-atheism and Christian denominations
 * 4) panerotic
 * 5) British Patriotic Song
 * 6) How exactly did Dr. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa obtain U.S. citizenship?
 * 7) Belgium Family Law

= August 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 30


 * 1) Countries without legal recognition of marriage
 * 2) The pioneer (painting)
 * 3) Pakistani Politics
 * 4) Original philosophy texts to read by a beginner
 * 5) Prostitution in the old muslim world (pree the 1800s)
 * 6) Number of Iranians living in exile
 * 7) Not a question
 * 8) Joe Biden and the Little League World Series
 * 9) Indonesian tsunami museum

= August 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 31


 * 1) Are Holocaust deniers Holocaust experts?
 * 2) Polish Kings of Prussia
 * 3) Fish roe
 * 4) Single mom.dad family
 * 5) legal question (hypothetical)
 * 6) Tandja Mamadou and 2009 elections
 * 7) Appius Claudius Caecus