Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/August 2017

= August 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 1


 * 1) Tom Sawyer and the Public Domain
 * 2) why don't I hear much about the Byzantines
 * 3) Polish złoty in 1974
 * 4) Birth control and poor people

= August 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 2


 * 1) A 1967 gay wedding in the Netherlands
 * 2) Is preferred room tempersture considered a culturally acquired or innate biological trait?
 * 3) Role of a Senior Watch Officer in a shore establishment?

= August 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 3


 * 1) Yellow things and sexual attitudes in Chinese culture
 * 2) How can Pip NOT know his own sister's name?
 * 3) Cheese, tofu, and geography
 * 4) Unusual given names
 * 5) Guayaquil Conference
 * 6) Has anyone with a diplomatic visa ever tried to use it to become an illegal immigrant?
 * 7) Is the U.S. allowing Syrian Muslims but not Syrian Christians to immigrate?  Why?
 * 8) Custody battles lost by both parents

= August 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 4


 * 1) J W Armstrong who professed urine therapy
 * 2) Differences in transport disciplines
 * 3) Genghis Khan and crosscontinental migration?
 * 4) Battlefield anecdote
 * 5) Data on how people decide on moral scenarios

= August 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 5


 * 1) Program management
 * 2) Where was Clara Lemlich born?

= August 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 7


 * 1) Primary language of Capetian Angevins in Naples, Hungary and Poland?
 * 2) Population without double counting

= August 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 8


 * 1) Lady Violet
 * 2) Baronetcies of Ireland
 * 3) Johnson versus nobody
 * 4) Why is there such a stigma against suicide?
 * 5) Is a cheeseburger with soy cheese and tofu bacon kosher?
 * 6) Is there a Wikipedia article about what happens when people don't do what God says?
 * 7) philosophy and propaganda
 * 8) George Washington Carver

= August 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 9


 * 1) Genetic impact of Germanic people on Spain,Portugal and France

= August 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 10


 * 1) How common is the name ‘Карл’ (Karl) in Russia?
 * 2) Name of European scientist in 18th or 19th century with teenage wife?
 * 3) Big dresses and ability to move
 * 4) Looking for some good quotes.
 * 5) Why did so many movements happen during the 60s?
 * 6) Why did San Francisco become the centre of the 1960s counterculture?
 * 7) Crime and violence in popular entertainment
 * 8) Name of Italian opera?

= August 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 11


 * 1) Military meaning of PMTU

= August 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 12


 * 1) Number of Hong Kong SAR passport holders
 * 2) What became of the Armenian town of Abaraner?
 * 3) Creationism

= August 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 13


 * 1) Nuclear first strikes *near* countries
 * 2) Reliability of the background of Child 44 (film)
 * 3) Is Guanyin interpreted as "patron saint" or "deity" by Westerners?
 * 4) Charlottesville + racism

= August 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 14


 * 1) Civil rights investigation
 * 2) Deposits on inssured accounts
 * 3) Taxes on deposit interst savings held by foreigners in the United States
 * 4) Croatia joining the Eurozone - whose interest is it in?

= August 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 15


 * 1) Why don't people in England speak a Romance language?
 * 2) Mary, Mother of Jesus
 * 3) District of Columbia Authority

= August 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 16


 * 1) Historical events and film/sound
 * 2) Men with "1 WEEK" signs
 * 3) Resource for Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight)
 * 4) White men's fascination with the sex life of African Americans

= August 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 17


 * 1) Are Christianity and Islam types of Judaism?
 * 2) US bases in PRC and ROC
 * 3) Parsees and Pharisees
 * 4) Unite the Right rally Model Year of Car?

= August 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 18


 * 1) "detachment" and "non-judicial punishment" in US Navy
 * 2) Orwellian

= August 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 19


 * 1) Free France vs French Republic
 * 2) Iconic symbols of the South (unrelated to the Confederacy)
 * 3) John Wadham (died 1412)
 * 4) Would they have turned the key?

= August 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 20


 * 1) Montreux Convention
 * 2) Russians are like us
 * 3) Japanese work ethic
 * 4) Marghi
 * 5) Operation Breakthrough

= August 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 21


 * 1) Leaders at China's 1949 Founding
 * 2) Are DC laws subject to presidential pardons?
 * 3) Yin and Yang

= August 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 22


 * 1) PARTINERSHIP
 * 2) Canadian equivalent of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution

= August 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 23


 * 1) What is the name of the Sci-Fi book where Earth's continents are planets
 * 2) Politicians at Third GECF summit
 * 3) Were there things besides US road signs that switched to metric/"bilingual" then "regressed"?

= August 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 24


 * 1) Key Art - please let me know
 * 2) Historical unemployed
 * 3) Effectiveness of prostitution law in Sweden
 * 4) heart health awareness and U.S. Olympic athletes
 * 5) UK Transport industry complexity

= August 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 25


 * 1) COIN/atrocity
 * 2) Finding out a reddit user's personal identity
 * 3) Abolishing slavery in the US

= August 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 27


 * 1) Did the Muslim Arabs have plumbing
 * 2) Pattern drafting : "Downton Abbey" style maid's apron.
 * 3) Confectioners manuals referenced in BBC program "The Sweet Makers".
 * 4) Who was Saint Therotus?
 * 5) How did the process of reincarnation according to some of the early Christians that believed in it?
 * 6) Subject and author with similar names

= August 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 28


 * 1) Christian missionaries in Vietnam in the 19th century
 * 2) Question about OSHA inspectors (not law related)
 * 3) Cost of the British succession
 * 4) How much do poets earn?
 * 5) James Tiptree and W.T. Tyler
 * 6) Flint residents using lake water
 * 7) Identify this painting and photo?

= August 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 29


 * 1) Unique Connections Between `Revelation` and Another Author's Corpus
 * 2) Border control and criminal record
 * 3) 10 year multiple-entry Chinese visa

= August 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 30


 * 1) Was there any culture where punching and/or wrestling was uncommon?
 * 2) Philomé Obin

= August 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 August 31


 * 1) President Trump's pardon of Sheriff Joe Arpaio
 * 2) The word "wherefore" in Shakespeare
 * 3) Philosophy Institute identification on Sergio Cotta article.