Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/August 2012

= August 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 1


 * 1) Why Did the U.S. Make it Much Harder for Soviet Jews to Move Here in 1990?
 * 2) Young Philsophers
 * 3) Mandatory gun ownership
 * 4) French Polynesian royal stamps
 * 5) Polynesian Pele
 * 6) Plagiarism lawsuit
 * 7) Olympia
 * 8) what is a "televised play"?
 * 9) how do I get in touch with a good opera critic as opposed to a voice coach
 * 10) Bad Fiction
 * 11) "As long as there are slaughter houses there will always be battlefields"

= August 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 2


 * 1) Olympic Tie
 * 2) What are the Closest Olympic Race Wins Ever?
 * 3) Jesus in Roman records.
 * 4) Execution Scene
 * 5) Maps of Past Congressional Districts?
 * 6) Adult Diaper Statistics
 * 7) Heyy :D
 * 8) What is the basis of considering somebody a political philosopher?
 * 9) About accounting and :please tell me the relationship between the Audit risk and Materiality?
 * 10) Only normal profit in a perfectly competitive industry?
 * 11) Differences Between Colonialism and Imperialism?
 * 12) Marriage in the United States
 * 13) Historical weather records

= August 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 3


 * 1) Would Creating a List of Goldman Sachs Research Papers Article be a Good Idea?
 * 2) Hinduism
 * 3) jesus and figs
 * 4) Eva Braun
 * 5) Halbstadt
 * 6) is nationalism collectivism?

= August 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 4


 * 1) Why did JFK Threaten to Put Sanctions on Israel For Building Nukes?
 * 2) French cities with Walloon population
 * 3) Malik Joyeux
 * 4) Immigration Policies of European Countries in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
 * 5) Frederick of Austria (Habsburg)
 * 6) After over 4 years, what happens to my unpaid Softbank cellphone bill?
 * 7) Where is Jason Russell now?
 * 8) History of religion
 * 9) Agatha Christie story/play
 * 10) Ancient tear stain

= August 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 5


 * 1) HMS Challenger (1858) in Tonga
 * 2) Quote of Karl Marx on (classical) liberalism?
 * 3) Luxembourg Continuation
 * 4) Olympic "rivalry" between Britain and Australia
 * 5) How many men commit rape?
 * 6) How can anyone get Jimbo Wales to speak at the Landon Lecture series?
 * 7) Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years in the South Sea Islands' Volume 2
 * 8) Why only 2?
 * 9) Jehovah's Witnesses
 * 10) Locations for Olympics

= August 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 6


 * 1) Countries where nationalism or patriotism is/was discouraged.
 * 2) United States Population Growth By Region
 * 3) Urban legends or real?
 * 4) I want to create a page for a sculptor
 * 5) Bonaly skating video, what is the music?
 * 6) Presidents of the Congress under the Articles of Confederation
 * 7) U.S. Urbanization Data By State Before 1900 and in 2000-2010
 * 8) Riots in Belgium
 * 9) Think and Grow Rich and The Law of Success + The Law of Success In Sixteen Lessons by Napoleon Hill

= August 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 7


 * 1) US Consuls to Tahiti
 * 2) Paintings by John Cleveley the Younger
 * 3) United Kingdom Government
 * 4) Arcadia, South Sea Islands
 * 5) list of marriages of famous people  which took place in a particular year
 * 6) Buddhism, meditation and illusion

= August 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 8


 * 1) Oceania
 * 2) Nazi plans for the occupation of the US
 * 3) Why Are Druze Much More Patriotic Than Other Israeli Arabs?
 * 4) Kaliningrad Oblast
 * 5) do all humans have synesthesia?
 * 6) National anthems that are fanfares.
 * 7) Badges on UK numberplates
 * 8) Bach Cantata #4
 * 9) Michigan legal weirdness
 * 10) East Jerusalem Arabs and Israel
 * 11) When did Russian unmarried women reach legal majority?

= August 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 9


 * 1) Partition of india- Boundary Comission members
 * 2) Burma Reforming
 * 3) French codes in Oman's History
 * 4) Why did Nixon resign
 * 5) Philosopher studying philosophies of other men
 * 6) Can i entitle myself as a moral philsopher
 * 7) unidentified symbol
 * 8) Person that signed most bills into law in the U.S.

= August 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 10


 * 1) Code of Pomare 1819

= August 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 11


 * 1) Gold reserves and currency
 * 2) U.S. Census Bureau Classification of Asian
 * 3) Paumotu and Tuamotu
 * 4) Maro ʻura
 * 5) Current on-the-ground status of Azawad
 * 6) Non-sovereign monarchy in Easter Island
 * 7) Right to Privacy
 * 8) Is government debt spending on infrastructure, education, and preventative health care inflationary?
 * 9) Why did the U.S.S.R. not Invade Yugoslavia when Tito left the Soviet Bloc in 1948?
 * 10) American Army uniform colors
 * 11) Pashtun Awakening vs. Sunni Awakening

= August 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 12


 * 1) British crown dependencies and global intercourse.
 * 2) Caliphate system during Rashidun Caliphate
 * 3) Statue identification
 * 4) Timing of VP candidate announcement

= August 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 13


 * 1) Michael Phelps
 * 2) Most Reliable Pre-1948 Unemployment Rate Estimates for the United States?
 * 3) Nazis with atomic weapons
 * 4) French Directory

= August 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 14


 * 1) Ruintia
 * 2) Responding to Prayer Requests
 * 3) Question about the validity of marriage

= August 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 15


 * 1) Hawaiian feather cloaks
 * 2) IS ABOUT USS NIMITZ CVN 68 SHIP CARRIER
 * 3) Scottish Parliament and Scottish independence referendum
 * 4) David Davis and the 1876 United States presidential election
 * 5) Henri, comte de Chambord and the French monarchy
 * 6) Candidates for the Greek throne
 * 7) Russian film-maker, Battle of Stalingrad & Battle of Dien Bien Phu
 * 8) CANFORCE ONE
 * 9) Meo = Hmong?
 * 10) Viktor Yushchenko's dioxin poisoning
 * 11) Name of a Washington official brought down for petty theft

= August 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 16


 * 1) How Come the West Opposes the Partition of Kosovo?
 * 2) What is the raw number of total import entries into Canada in 2011?
 * 3) Entering an embassy to detain a person
 * 4) What is the statute of limitations in Sweden for what Assange is accused of there?
 * 5) Democracy in India
 * 6) Joseph Spiess date of birth?

= August 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 17


 * 1) Sales pitch
 * 2) Question about the psychological/sociological perception of someone to a given situation in a Culture
 * 3) Yet another Assange question...  Why Ecuador?
 * 4) Most married monarchs
 * 5) Religious implications of extraterrestrial contact
 * 6) Why would a business operate this way?
 * 7) Something to ask about Italia?
 * 8) unsecured personal debt

= August 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 18


 * 1) Common Law/Modern law
 * 2) President Dole and his Cabinet
 * 3) History of lockable doors - who had them?
 * 4) Eyelashes stuck behind the eye
 * 5) What classical(?) wallpaper pattern is this?
 * 6) Who is responsible for introducing bills in U.S. congress?
 * 7) Puyi's apple
 * 8) Mayans and Aztec
 * 9) The Taliban, al Qaeda and the U.S.
 * 10) Additional questions about Italia
 * 11) U.S. and serial killers

= August 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 19


 * 1) Total number of nuclear reactors ever constructed?
 * 2) how many airplanes are up in the air right now
 * 3) The United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758
 * 4) Hitler and horses
 * 5) Aftermath of the US Civil War for Confederate leaders

= August 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 20


 * 1) Most male-dominated industries
 * 2) Dharmachakra guidelines?
 * 3) Corruption in US !!!!!
 * 4) Fictional characters of Swedish and Danish businessman
 * 5) Can map data be copyrighted?
 * 6) Westley Allan Dodd
 * 7) Fiscal projections/estimation
 * 8) Capture of Guam

= August 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 21


 * 1) Islam
 * 2) Romley
 * 3) Punishment for having caused monks to break their vows
 * 4) The punishment for having broken the vows of celibacy
 * 5) Was the French inquisition abolished in 1772?
 * 6) The authority of the Papal Avignon in France
 * 7) Iraq-Afghan relations pre 9/11
 * 8) Using chains to block rivers
 * 9) Why doesn't Israel have the right to the Gaza Strip and West Bank
 * 10) children's book
 * 11) Religion in Saxony

= August 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 22


 * 1) Partition of South Africa
 * 2) Incest Exception for Abortion
 * 3) Utility Maximisation
 * 4) Athabaskan Indians
 * 5) Satish K. Kappor
 * 6) In WWII, did the Allies not use encryption? Did Axis powers not bother trying to intercept messages?
 * 7) Ted Bundy's interview
 * 8) French working hours
 * 9) Questions about the Columbine shooters
 * 10) Full Style of King of Saxony

= August 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 23


 * 1) Are they any books or movies with a villain  with Aspergers_syndrome in it?
 * 2) So technically are Mormons polytheist?
 * 3) Gentleman with curls, 2nd half of 19th century
 * 4) Need a Demon or Spirit Example

= August 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 24


 * 1) How is this possible
 * 2) Voting Patterns in Poland and Romania
 * 3) Roman legio and the Kings of spain
 * 4) What does abbreviation "Phoeb. Fig." stand for?
 * 5) Can the OEO get specialized credentials for professionals who enter witness protection?
 * 6) Question about celibacy in the Roman Catholic Church
 * 7) Ward Cunningham

= August 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 25


 * 1) Bribery rejected
 * 2) Appearance-enhancing cosmetics as disqualification
 * 3) Bad future for Wikipedia
 * 4) What source says.  Zeus returned Asclepius and the Cyclopes from Hades.
 * 5) Visual art breaking the cyber "fourth wall"
 * 6) China vs United States economy
 * 7) Previous death sentences and re-introduction of the death penalty in the US in 1976
 * 8) Largest bunker by population ?
 * 9) Canada and Islamic fundamentalism, terrorism

= August 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 26


 * 1) How many men are in Canada's jails for child support?
 * 2) Why don't Muslims know what day Eid-ul-Fitr is?
 * 3) Jewish Immigration to the Americas Over Western Europe
 * 4) who are considered to be the 3 most greatest men who ever lived?
 * 5) Who from wikipedia wrote the Cyclops page. Also Who wrote Asclepius on Wiki Doc.
 * 6) Is a Unitarian Universalist church a religious organization or an interfaith organization?
 * 7) Colton Harris-Moore
 * 8) Most Evil
 * 9) I want to better understand where Wikipedia's sources come from.
 * 10) Race/Ethnicity/Religion in Historical National Censuses
 * 11) Release Date of Newest U.S. Population Projections?

= August 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 27


 * 1) Audiobook for . ..
 * 2) Questions about law in the Victorian period
 * 3) Countercultures
 * 4) Why does the United States have relatively more shootings than most developed countries?
 * 5) The children of Marie Juliette Louvet
 * 6) Can a full blooded African American can be as light or lighter?
 * 7) Charles Thompson, a friend of Ernest Hemingway during his first East Africa safari ?
 * 8) What went wrong with Turkey?
 * 9) There's a business in New York that's closed on weekends.
 * 10) where could I email
 * 11) What academic field studies volunteerism?
 * 12) 0-bedroom housing units
 * 13) Canadian Equalization Formula
 * 14) US presidential debates

= August 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 28


 * 1) The "treasonous act" of Georgy Malenkov
 * 2) Kurds of Iran
 * 3) Which U.S. Presidential autobiographies are in the public domain (or at least free to read and save completely)?
 * 4) College question
 * 5) Most Significant Event Since the Industrial Revolution Which Doesn't Involve Nuclear War
 * 6) nazi views on meritocracy?
 * 7) Don't stand if you drive?
 * 8) Negative painting

= August 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 29


 * 1) Prince of Eichstätt
 * 2) Prussia in the German Empire
 * 3) Ex-convicts in 1880s
 * 4) Iran, its nuclear program, and a nuclear weapons free zone in the Middle East
 * 5) In male dominated times, places and cultures how do we explain the presence of Queens?
 * 6) If 3 Wikipedia Articles all say the same thing on a claim.
 * 7) Gaius Julius Hyginus
 * 8) Accidental Kidney Donation
 * 9) Problem and solution creation? in politics and business
 * 10) Edward Roderick Davies

= August 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 30


 * 1) Raymond of Cabannis and Philippa the Catanian
 * 2) Cultural influences on relationships
 * 3) Who in India speaks English?
 * 4) Kimveer Gill's journal
 * 5) Is there any link between the murder of the Afghan war lord and the World Trade Center attacks?

= August 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 31


 * 1) Heavenly Theology
 * 2) Wright Enrichment's Logo-with-motto
 * 3) Michigan and Virginia Presidential Vote in 1884 and 1888
 * 4) Blaming Jews for Jesus's Crucifixion
 * 5) Federal crowns
 * 6) Longest finite term length for an elected official
 * 7) Was Hamid Karzai on the Taliban's side before the World Trade Center attacks?
 * 8) Who was the first US President to have an official Presidential email address?
 * 9) Kikuanoki or Kikuanohi
 * 10) Bordertown capitals
 * 11) Kimveer Gill's journal
 * 12) Library Cataloging
 * 13) Kalakaua on the Kaimiloa
 * 14) De Beers advertising