Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/August 2015

= August 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 1


 * 1) Why are the Big Four all private companies?
 * 2) Differences and similarities Quebeckers and Acadians
 * 3) Historic map of Acadia in Canada
 * 4) Left-handed people

= August 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 2


 * 1) 22nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry during Maryland Campaign
 * 2) Pedigree collapse

= August 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 3


 * 1) How many country's currency have Braille and/or tactile features on them?
 * 2) Donduk Kuular
 * 3) "VERMIS 40·PE·LŌ" on Carta Marina
 * 4) Hungarian border fence and Asian immigrants

= August 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 4


 * 1) Existentialist ideas in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
 * 2) Blazon for the University of London#Coat of arms ?
 * 3) Median wealth of single African-American women
 * 4) According to anti-Semites, how does the Jewish conspiracy to control everything actually work?
 * 5) Planned Parenthood funding
 * 6) Do rapists consume more porn than non-rapists?

= August 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 5


 * 1) Songs about Lucifer in Latin during Mass
 * 2) d. aft
 * 3) 41st Regiment Infantry U.S. Colored Troops

= August 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 6


 * 1) Missouri Civil War monument
 * 2) Mexican-American War
 * 3) Repression and dissent in USA.
 * 4) Women suffrage in pre-1795 Poland?
 * 5) Question about cursive handwriting
 * 6) Was Leonardo da Vinci  Italian?
 * 7) Significance of a virgin-martyr in Christianity
 * 8) Tampico Affair?

= August 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 7


 * 1) USS Plunger (SS-2)
 * 2) When did China learn about America
 * 3) Individuals who funded the American revolutionary war
 * 4) Supreme Court: Decision in Shelby County v. Holder, Doc. 12-96
 * 5) Criminal issues arising from withheld information

= August 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 8


 * 1) Closing down the shop.  A big shop.
 * 2) Tipping & Sales Tax

= August 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 9


 * 1) Why does McDonalds use cardboard boxes to store its sandwiches?
 * 2) Renaissance models
 * 3) "Flat Earth" conspiracy theories
 * 4) VE Day and VJ Day

= August 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 10


 * 1) Psychobiography Resources on Internet
 * 2) Abrahamic Religions
 * 3) heroic flight attendant
 * 4) Axieri

= August 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 11


 * 1) Ticker symbol being unrelated to the company name
 * 2) Cleopatra's Nose
 * 3) Corruption of Minors
 * 4) Blackest country on earth?
 * 5) What was that book? Dark comedy involving the Rorschach Test
 * 6) Artist
 * 7) Promethean Society

= August 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 12


 * 1) 33, Chambers Street, Boston, Massachusetts
 * 2) Baron Genet, French minister
 * 3) Joyce Bennett OBE, Anglican priest, Hong Kong
 * 4) Why hasn't the U.S. enacted an oil import tariff?

= August 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 13


 * 1) What is the family relationship called between two sets of in-laws?
 * 2) UK legal system
 * 3) World's 10 best newspapers
 * 4) 49th State
 * 5) Flag questions related to above

= August 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 14


 * 1) Ealing cake
 * 2) Where are the flags?

= August 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 15


 * 1) Who are the closest family members to become Presidents of the USA?
 * 2) Longest term served as a US President or Vice President or both combined
 * 3) Why are members of Congress exempt from criminal laws?
 * 4) President and Prime Minister
 * 5) King and Emperor
 * 6) Foundation for Defense of Democracies
 * 7) How to stop agenda accounts on Islam related articles
 * 8) Finsbury Sculpture - Why?!  (re: sculptor Stephen Cox, Faceted Column)

= August 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 16


 * 1) Prince Consort

= August 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 17


 * 1) European Union, the United Nations and the Euro
 * 2) Stock exchange
 * 3) Average Jewish vs. German wealth (or lack thereof)

= August 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 18


 * 1) Everyday
 * 2) Controversial computer programmer/scientist/hacker
 * 3) Ports
 * 4) Abraham Woodhull
 * 5) Sawn in two
 * 6) Septuagint abbreviation

= August 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 19


 * 1) Do Muslims focus on advertising or proselytizing in Muslim-majority countries?
 * 2) Coins with hole
 * 3) Social situations
 * 4) Philome Obin
 * 5) Who is this watercolor Artist Rathbun?

= August 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 20


 * 1) How much more work was making enough wampum to make a living?
 * 2) Philome Obin
 * 3) Native Hawaiian suffrage

= August 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 21


 * 1) Why do runners from Kenya always dominate running races?
 * 2) British Currency Post-Elizabeth II
 * 3) Identify portrait of a 16th-century Maghrebinian ruler

= August 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 22


 * 1) Trading floor of the stock market
 * 2) did de Gaulle say this?
 * 3) User User:Ser Amantio di Nicolao mass-editing wrongly. Question about the nature of Wikipedia.
 * 4) Traditional Spanish music

= August 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 23


 * 1) Is there a standard font for formal or professional writing?
 * 2) English translations of Proust
 * 3) reference needed

= August 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 24


 * 1) China
 * 2) America and the World's Richest Country
 * 3) Insurance and Helping the Poor
 * 4) When you purchase a grave plot, for how long do you own that plot?
 * 5) When do the university rankings come out?
 * 6) The Ashley Madison class action and its' particular plaintiff

= August 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 25


 * 1) First Nations and Native American men and long hair
 * 2) Whole Earth Catalog copyright
 * 3) Importance of the United States cabinet
 * 4) Colonies with political representation in the mother country
 * 5) Is Evensong part of high-church Anglicanism or low-church Anglicanism?

= August 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 26


 * 1) Stock market index futures
 * 2) The rule of the thread of the channel and organized incorporated territories
 * 3) What is the point of an established church?

= August 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 27


 * 1) What happens with a criminal conviction when an appeal is taken but the defendant dies?

= August 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 28


 * 1) What university rankings are relevant to choose the right degree at the right place?
 * 2) Why take a more expensive name brand drug when a less expensive generic drug is available?
 * 3) Maximum behavioral differences between men and women
 * 4) Coast Guard on US Navy ships
 * 5) Low-angle shots
 * 6) A sculptor's quote
 * 7) Replicated areas

= August 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 29


 * 1) Was Perseus on the Argo?
 * 2) Stairway to heaven?
 * 3) Non whites in the UK (1960s/70s)

= August 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 30


 * 1) Psychological/rhetorical device
 * 2) Subdivisions of BiH
 * 3) Geschiedenis van ???scafanders???
 * 4) Are the JMSDF ship naming conventions codified somewhere?
 * 5) Frontline management
 * 6) What is the racial composition of each major political party in the USA?
 * 7) Five-headed horse figure

= August 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 August 31


 * 1) Democracy in the USA.
 * 2) How was the white French battle flag differentiated from the white surrender flag?
 * 3) Civil disobedience
 * 4) Cheese production in Togo
 * 5) does zhong kui carry a book? maybe the book of life and death?
 * 6) Handing someone an item in Japan
 * 7) Committing a crime on an international border..?
 * 8) Children dancing around a crocodile