Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/August 2011

= August 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 1


 * 1) Map of 50 new states for the USA
 * 2) China vs United States economic management
 * 3) Cyrus Cylinder
 * 4) Source of Terence McKenna quotes?
 * 5) Incredulity
 * 6) WW2 protests against segregation

= August 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 2


 * 1) Starving in Britain
 * 2) First to claim prayer is ineffective?
 * 3) Hair removal in ancient time
 * 4) Status quo
 * 5) Job Creation
 * 6) The American debt
 * 7) Copyright, Canada: can this image be made PD?

= August 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 3


 * 1) Why is the phrase "I'm going to the city" applied only to Manhattan, but not to the Bronx as well historically speaking?
 * 2) Contacting a New York Times journalist
 * 3) Somalia aid
 * 4) Laborism
 * 5) James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose
 * 6) 12 Angry Men (1957 film)
 * 7) Markets "attacking" bonds
 * 8) United States presidents turning 50 in office

= August 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 4


 * 1) Literary firsts
 * 2) Successful lottery investor
 * 3) KNIGHTS - HOW EXACTLY DID THEY DIFFER FROM BARONS AND COUNTS/EARLS  IN THE MIDDLE AGES?
 * 4) UK VAT number
 * 5) THE ENTRANCE OF NEW NATION IN ABIA AND IMO STATE OF NIGERIA
 * 6) French cheese
 * 7) School Library Journal?
 * 8) Hostile legislative riders
 * 9) Shields up!
 * 10) UK Government bonds

= August 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 5


 * 1) Looking for t the name of the Original Artist of a painting
 * 2) Pol Pot
 * 3) Was it morganatic or not?
 * 4) Economics still deficient in explaining predicting or controlling current events?
 * 5) Medical Arts
 * 6) Non-new Catholic dioceses without cathedrals

= August 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 6


 * 1) United Kingdom
 * 2) Flags!
 * 3) Jewish support for Hitler?
 * 4) Tiny European countries
 * 5) besieging a castle
 * 6) Birth and death dates for Jessie Lemont Trausil, translator of poems by Rainer Maria Rilke
 * 7) Shielded Soldiers
 * 8) What is it called when the church is ruling a nation or state? what kind of government is this?
 * 9) Low inflation increases the real value of debts

= August 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 7


 * 1) GDP from the fourth to first quarter
 * 2) Which is the most powerful and dangerous...
 * 3) Ciano's claims
 * 4) Date of the peak of British relative power and prestige?
 * 5) Subconcious Part of the MInd.
 * 6) Economic growth
 * 7) Becoming braver
 * 8) Airports named after people who died in airplane crashes
 * 9) 19th century US senator cheating on his wife

= August 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 8


 * 1) Stocks, 10% cheaper
 * 2) Headquarters of Westmont Hospitality Group
 * 3) container size change
 * 4) Politely declining flattery
 * 5) Uncharted territory?
 * 6) Page 280 of The Golden Compass (aka Northern Lights)
 * 7) Karl Marx - last laugh?

= August 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 9


 * 1) riots in Camden, Notting Hill and Ealing
 * 2) London riots
 * 3) Facebook, Yahoo Mail, YouTube - Profit
 * 4) Hawaii and Britain
 * 5) How could Dan Brown make such a mistake?
 * 6) outside ancient Rome
 * 7) self sufficient nation
 * 8) British police
 * 9) What is this Art movement called?
 * 10) If the central bank interests is lower than the gov. bond interest...

= August 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 10


 * 1) Addition to O. Henry article
 * 2) Making allegations in fiction and poetry
 * 3) DELHI POLICE
 * 4) Australian national debt data
 * 5) Is there a list of all verses of the bible by earliest date of appearance in manuscript?
 * 6) In what story does Jesus pull a man out of a hole?

= August 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 11


 * 1) Rotation method
 * 2) Dictators in Africa/anti-dictators
 * 3) Question on vandalism
 * 4) Legality of vandalism
 * 5) when did Jesus realize he was the Messiah?
 * 6) Wikipedia administrator
 * 7) Danish government report on the costs and benefices of immigration
 * 8) Buyers and Sellers

= August 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 12


 * 1) Where are some fine places online to solicit charity donations?
 * 2) Bacchus and the Ganges
 * 3) Dangerous guiness record
 * 4) Bans in Saudi Arabia
 * 5) Robert Arbuthnot
 * 6) Grammar: United States debt-ceiling crisis
 * 7) tip jar
 * 8) British uprising
 * 9) hiatus in presidential deaths
 * 10) Is it a logical problem, or just me? (w. spoiler of The Subtle Knife)
 * 11) Climbing an hierarchy

= August 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 13


 * 1) The Gunpowder Plot - was the king behind it?
 * 2) Weather Service Modernization Act of 1992
 * 3) Myth of Witch Drowning
 * 4) Middle ages land of nobles - acres and size
 * 5) UK-US population ratio

= August 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 14


 * 1) Buying dollars and Euros again: who has lost?
 * 2) Inside job
 * 3) Form1040NR-EZ

= August 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 15


 * 1) Word
 * 2) Good map of area controlled by Libyan rebels?
 * 3) Living with Victorian amenities and Old Guns (2 questions)
 * 4) Parade calls
 * 5) Political  corruption
 * 6) Studies about the point at which foreign nationals and their descendents become considered locals

= August 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 16


 * 1) Significance and use of Buddhist bead bracelets?
 * 2) Comdemned criminal sueing the government in a civil court
 * 3) Library book cover
 * 4) chart for sum total of income
 * 5) Temporarily embarrassed millionaires
 * 6) taxes based on relative poverty/riches

= August 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 17


 * 1) Ararat
 * 2) Powerful Acids and Bases known to Bronze-Age cultures?
 * 3) Diplomatic relations without an embassy
 * 4) 2 Questions;  Flag of Serbia
 * 5) Papal Salary
 * 6) Did Congress repeal the CLASS act?
 * 7) Last line of poem: "and the _, the _, the_."
 * 8) Bar graph for income
 * 9) Austria and Hungary

= August 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 18


 * 1) Jung Sceptic?
 * 2) Austria-Hungary ethnic groups
 * 3) Catholic Church and Reading the Bible
 * 4) Name of a tort
 * 5) Japanese Soldiers waiting for a victory that never came
 * 6) Anyone ever collapsed or died on the trading floor of the NYSE?
 * 7) Mecca and gambling
 * 8) Percent of Population Working in Agriculture in 1300s / Early 1400s
 * 9) Is it legal to.....
 * 10) Thomas Ball
 * 11) head of state salary
 * 12) Why doesn't the U.S. release employment data day by day, not once a month?
 * 13) Long lasting subArfican leaders
 * 14) Did the Zulu use bows?

= August 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 19


 * 1) The Euro
 * 2) Did Abraham Lincoln have ties with the South and slavery?
 * 3) Modern French colonies
 * 4) Why are Australians proud of their criminal ancestors?
 * 5) Can you be a member of the US Congress and a state officer or representative at the same time?
 * 6) Largest economy with no loans

= August 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 20


 * 1) Restaurant worker pouring dirty water down a sewage drain
 * 2) What the hell?..
 * 3) American Historical Association
 * 4) Legal status of strange US law
 * 5) Traditional pareve dessert
 * 6) Term for scholarly study of children
 * 7) Homecoming and prom dress lengths for formality

= August 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 21


 * 1) Why is right collar over left?
 * 2) Conservative/libertarian awards
 * 3) Why can't Keynes and Hayek both be right?
 * 4) Minimum wage and the gold standard
 * 5) Has anyone heard of the poet B. Tresz?
 * 6) Relative prevalence of child sexual offenders in general populace versus in the Catholic clergy? (Western societies only)
 * 7) Ica, Peru Mayoral Election Candidates
 * 8) cult symbols

= August 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 22


 * 1) Pointless English eccentricity: To the Manor Born
 * 2) War Powers Resolution lawsuit
 * 3) When did Babylon die?
 * 4) International Criminal Court and domestic prosecution
 * 5) Scipio Africanus brother
 * 6) Enron - Enterprise Risk Management
 * 7) Storage Wars
 * 8) cultural mixing
 * 9) paramilitary/terrorist groups and their opposition to drugs

= August 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 23


 * 1) Egg on the sidewalk
 * 2) Spanish Civil War deaths
 * 3) How could refinancing when market value < mortgage value not be scam
 * 4) Russian debt to CZ?
 * 5) Journalistic Usage: Borders or State Lines?

= August 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 24


 * 1) US debt to China
 * 2) "Our ancestors died for our freedom"
 * 3) Owning stock in all (or most) available companies
 * 4) Dramatic History
 * 5) literature  the chronicles of narnia the lion the witch and the wardrobe
 * 6) Underground Railroad Notable Locations
 * 7) Gravestone materials
 * 8) France Arab significant population
 * 9) Wikipedian
 * 10) Coprolalia in Japan?
 * 11) Inflation without increase of money supply

= August 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 25


 * 1) What happens when 2 parties in different countries are utterly unhappy with each other
 * 2) Totem Poles
 * 3) has anyone memorized the entire Bible?
 * 4) "First pea/pee I have taken" joke
 * 5) Soviet veto?
 * 6) Arabs and Somalis and Africans in Libya
 * 7) Africans in Belgium
 * 8) Immigrants in Netherlands
 * 9) Academia and change of name

= August 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 26


 * 1) North Vietmaneese tanks in the Vietnam War
 * 2) In Great-Britain, monument to the dead soldiers after Islandhwana ?
 * 3) John Westlake on enemy subjects
 * 4) how to uncover spy
 * 5) Jesus Christ
 * 6) Number of Tribes and Reservations in the United States
 * 7) The Point of the Compact of Free Association
 * 8) High Chief vs Chief
 * 9) Wich date of the race is correct?
 * 10) US airforce, served Germany
 * 11) China

= August 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 27


 * 1) Saint Mary Lake, Montana
 * 2) income amount and number of persons
 * 3) Last stands etc
 * 4) Syphax
 * 5) acting in the 16th century
 * 6) Company X offers to buy company Y - company Y's shares go up?
 * 7) Artist search
 * 8) Geography/GK  question
 * 9) Jewish views on working on the Sabbath
 * 10) Scipio Africanus and the mutiny at Sucro, 206 BC
 * 11) Intro to Sufism
 * 12) Death of Gaddafi?

= August 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 28


 * 1) Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh
 * 2) Gaddafi and Rice
 * 3) Gaddafi's whereabouts
 * 4) Looking for relatives in Germany
 * 5) Zecco can't give a history of stocks' asking prices. Anyplace that will?

= August 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 29


 * 1) maximum revenue scheme
 * 2) Mid-Pacific Magazine
 * 3) The Phantom Coach by  Amelia Edwards
 * 4) Gath. (city).... Goliath
 * 5) Libyan Regionalism
 * 6) Intentionally blank pages at the beginning and end of a book
 * 7) Hotel Room Rquirements Indiana
 * 8) Debating  tactic?
 * 9) Fairer sex?
 * 10) Socrates: true or false quote

= August 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 30


 * 1) Inflation: people on debt vs. people debt-free
 * 2) Public doman paintings of plum blossom trees
 * 3) Is China the only country in the world which keeps the exact number of their executions a state secret?
 * 4) Anglican saints
 * 5) America and George III's insanity
 * 6) price increases
 * 7) Where can I find information on bride-bedding relevent to 16th century Scotland?
 * 8) Personalized self help books
 * 9) effeminacy
 * 10) The Washington Naval Conference
 * 11) Hindi ज्ञ jñ

= August 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 31


 * 1) Quick onset of irreligiosity in Quebec
 * 2) concept of double punishment for one and same cause of action
 * 3) United States Veto and Iraqi Economic Sanctions
 * 4) A Level results: ranking students
 * 5) Do you need planning permission to park a caravan on UK green belt land?
 * 6) Sucro, Spain
 * 7) celebration of Eid ul-Fitr 2011
 * 8) Addresses of Aérospatiale and BAC