Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/August 2013

= August 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 August 1


 * 1) Political "strenght" of incumbent US presidents
 * 2) Royal accession of twins
 * 3) SEGxi?
 * 4) Jadoo Ghar
 * 5) US states changing capitals
 * 6) Astrology and new planets
 * 7) Question about buying/selling stock
 * 8) Reform Kibbutz and conservative kibbutz

= August 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 August 2


 * 1) Archaeology and indigenous rights
 * 2) Maya Angelou quote
 * 3) Models of Landseer's lions

= August 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 August 3


 * 1) 70s or 80s made for tv debate forum
 * 2) Identifying science fiction novel
 * 3) Detroit bankrupty -->  Chapter 9 bankruptcies in general - Can anybody here help?
 * 4) Are Americans allowed to eat their own food?  Are raw foods available?
 * 5) User interface design and cultural differences
 * 6) narrative aorist - ancient greek
 * 7) Countries where Jews outnumber Muslims
 * 8) Titles Deprivation Act 1917

= August 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 August 4


 * 1) Ruhollah Khomeini's appointment of senior officials and laws on school principals
 * 2) Is Del Mar a part of San Diego
 * 3) Cousin marriages in Tonga
 * 4) Mandatory school enrollment ((please help))
 * 5) Publishing false information about companies other than for profit
 * 6) Average potty training age by country?
 * 7) Mesoamerica
 * 8) Finance

= August 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 August 5


 * 1) Crime victims
 * 2) Ed Freeman's wounds
 * 3) Name of video art at Philadelphia Museum of Art
 * 4) interconnection between airline and network
 * 5) Monetary Policy In Australia
 * 6) Implemented Fiscal Policy In Australia Post GFC
 * 7) Names that end in -quist
 * 8) Why are there more cats than seals?

= August 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 August 6


 * 1) Siaosi U. Tukuʻaho
 * 2) Kentucky Senate Election
 * 3) sarns
 * 4) Samoa was there ever a monarchy
 * 5) Legal definitions of harassment in Australia
 * 6) UK oath and pledge of citizenship
 * 7) Original or early/mid 20th century Brazilian capital building/presidential office
 * 8) Why is English the official language of the U.S.A?
 * 9) Wards of Zimbabwe

= August 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 August 7


 * 1) Proposed Images
 * 2) mundane and worldly
 * 3) To reenact the Civil War, while I have a 1/2 Asian background...
 * 4) Coloring
 * 5) Type of shredder allegedly used by Saddam Hussein
 * 6) Flin Flon:  one city, two provinces
 * 7) Lihyan
 * 8) Failed/Unsuccessful United States Historical Territorial Acquisition Attempts
 * 9) Scottish vs. English vs. UK legal system in a bankruptcy or reorg situation (major)

= August 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 August 8


 * 1) Introduction to Thomas Clark
 * 2) Fashion: "Double belt loops" ?
 * 3) Talking about sex, is it sexual harassment?
 * 4) When Nations Acquired Radar
 * 5) Court judgement

= August 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 August 9


 * 1) Shamir during Peres premiership
 * 2) Nations with history of civil rights for minorities

= August 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 August 10


 * 1) 27th Amendment to the US Constitution
 * 2) House of Châlon-Arlay
 * 3) Economics of individuals within firms
 * 4) Husband of Mona Lisa
 * 5) term for all atheists going to hell?
 * 6) Balliol and Coucy
 * 7) Mrs G and Mr W

= August 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 August 11


 * 1) Luxembourg royal burials
 * 2) Americanization of the BBC
 * 3) Islamic republic article
 * 4) Product placement in movies
 * 5) The smell of bacon
 * 6) mom-and-pop shops
 * 7) John, Duke of Beja
 * 8) Anglo Saxon name for British royals
 * 9) Great Pittsburgh Fire of 1845

= August 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 August 12


 * 1) Possible Updates for Two Wikipedia Entries
 * 2) Midfielders
 * 3) Sociobiology and fashion
 * 4) What was the point of World War 1?
 * 5) Homophobia
 * 6) A metal picture of Christ's Last Supper
 * 7) People named Prince

= August 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 August 13


 * 1) Black POWs in Nazi Germany -- Is Hogan's Heroes accurate?
 * 2) UK weather forecasts in the 1960s
 * 3) Morganatic marriage in Spain
 * 4) Neglect
 * 5) Weisbecker-Calendar
 * 6) Australian geographical names - loss of apostrophes
 * 7) Why did people, especially military personnel, think WW1 would be "over by Christmas"?
 * 8) Berlin police vs. BEF

= August 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 August 14


 * 1) Did the Nazis
 * 2) Burial site of Carlos Martínez De Irujo, 1st Marquis Of Casa Irujo
 * 3) Vel Phillips
 * 4) Total floor area in Chicago
 * 5) Lenin in a lift

= August 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 August 15


 * 1) Was that dude skinhead?
 * 2) What was the average number of children in ancient times?
 * 3) What did Hitler think of England and English culture?
 * 4) Smoking Prime Ministers
 * 5) When will Wikipedia realize that the Social Sciences are not part of Humanities?
 * 6) Oldest known depiction of Stephen I of Hungary

= August 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 August 16


 * 1) court overturns guilty plea?
 * 2) Lists of altlases
 * 3) Kaiulani photo
 * 4) Charles Warren Stoddard
 * 5) Edward T. Perkins
 * 6) No development without peace, no peace without development
 * 7) spoken/written forms of sign languages
 * 8) Tomb for horses

= August 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 August 17


 * 1) Historical exchange rates for the old Turkmenistani manat (TMM)
 * 2) how is 'childlore' like cooties passed on?
 * 3) Staline's radio speech on 3 july 1941
 * 4) Primary sources for Operation Himmler
 * 5) American state funeral
 * 6) > Voynich manuscripts

= August 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 August 18


 * 1) any idea why "May you live in interesting times" is trending this week?
 * 2) Relationship between Presidents Johnson and Reagan
 * 3) Gisela of Hungary at coronation of Saint Stephen

= August 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 August 19


 * 1) Mandarin-only sign outside Louvre
 * 2) Video cost
 * 3) Looking for a literary reference
 * 4) reson for having children

= August 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 August 20


 * 1) Flags hanging style
 * 2) Traditional American hiding places for valuables
 * 3) Konrad von Hochstaden
 * 4) Samarong
 * 5) Round World vs Flat World
 * 6) English mixed indep private schools
 * 7) Chinese and poi
 * 8) Question about Philadelphia history

= August 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 August 21


 * 1) Why did the Pope REALLY resign?
 * 2) Per capita income
 * 3) Age of baptism and circumcision
 * 4) French deputy foreign ministers
 * 5) Name of USA
 * 6) A line from a poem

= August 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 August 22


 * 1) Murugan vs The Morrígan
 * 2) Why were two people charged with murdering Christopher Lane
 * 3) Nirad C Chaudhuri, Saul Bellow, Bertrand Russell
 * 4) Phobias: Fear, Dislike and/or Hatred.‏

= August 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 August 23


 * 1) Merchant Marine Act of 1936
 * 2) Arthur Conan Doyle
 * 3) Upcoming Film based on a Book:  "The Book Thief."
 * 4) Bulk contraception procurement
 * 5) Elizabeth II
 * 6) Who is eligible to be Secretary of State USA

= August 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 August 24


 * 1) Exhuming of Elizabeth Bonifacia of Poland
 * 2) Unknown English royal burials
 * 3) Difference between nerd and a hipster.
 * 4) Why does the UK have two houses of Parliament?
 * 5) US Supreme court majority opinions- how detailed do they have to be?
 * 6) 1854 Maps

= August 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 August 25


 * 1) Hotter the fire, the stronger the steel?
 * 2) Castrato in the choir
 * 3) Totalitarianism and authoritarianism
 * 4) Contextualizing quotations placed above poems
 * 5) discrepenacy
 * 6) How many Bitcoins have been permanently destroyed/lost?
 * 7) Dr Marten boots history

= August 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 August 26


 * 1) Germany selling weapons to Israel
 * 2) Chicken theft
 * 3) Pederasty as opposed to pedophilia
 * 4) Layout terminology: A photograph displaying an atmosphere (Atmosphere (architecture and spatial design)) or a synoptic view
 * 5) BigMac index for the Czech Republic and Hungary
 * 6) Measuring the availability of credit
 * 7) Trying to validate a quote
 * 8) Top 10 industries
 * 9) Freedom of religion in the United Kingdom
 * 10) Communism and nationalism

= August 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 August 27


 * 1) Konrad Knoll, German Sculptor, Statue of Sappho
 * 2) Why do drama series have often have different writers and directors for each episode of a season?
 * 3) Where did all the Spaniards go?
 * 4) who said "never stop wondering. never stop wandering."?
 * 5) High Middle Ages contracts
 * 6) Where can I find a blueprint for depicting a cyberstalker as a character?
 * 7) Afterwards: What hapens when a child in an orhpahage reaches the age of 18
 * 8) Does having friends cost us money or bring us money?

= August 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 August 28


 * 1) writing by Ann Freedman
 * 2) writing a letter to the pope
 * 3) Second succession to the presidency by Gerald Ford
 * 4) US presidential schedules
 * 5) Rush and bankruptcy
 * 6) Can monks and nuns still perform experiments within monasteries?
 * 7) Hypothetical scenario: assailant deliberately causes a woman's miscarriage - is that murder?
 * 8) 20,000 Francs to USD

= August 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 August 29


 * 1) Masoud Barzani in the 1990s
 * 2) Who decided he/she owned all the swans?
 * 3) Date of Kurdistan presidential election (for an RM)

= August 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 August 30


 * 1) Dnepropetrovsk maniacs
 * 2) Healthcare and Death in the United States
 * 3) Whether pro athletes "care"
 * 4) Correlation between individual's sex and individual's opposition of LGBT
 * 5) Prince Joseph Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

= August 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 August 31


 * 1) Western culture compared to Eastern culture
 * 2) Legal system
 * 3) Description of regional identity in the US South following the Civil War